Nuclear weapons agency gets 11 percent funding increase in FY18 budget request
By: Aaron Mehta, May 24, 2017
WASHINGTON — The government agency in charge of upkeep and modernization of America’s nuclear warheads is in line for a big funding boost, thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget request.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a quasi-independent entity within the Department of Energy, is marked for $13.9 billion, an increase of $1 billion — or 7.8 percent — above the FY17 Omnibus level.
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