The administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration was set to testify Tuesday in the House for the first time this hearing season.
Jill Hruby, administrator of the semi-autonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons agency, was set to appear in an afternoon hearing of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee.
Hruby, months away from completing her third year as head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), was scheduled to testify alongside senior officials from the military and the Department of Defense, according to a notice on the subcommittee’s website.
Meanwhile, a Senate hearing with Hruby and senior NNSA and DOE officials was rescheduled for late May after crashing up against major votes in the Senate.
The hearing in the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee was set for May 22, more than a month after its originally scheduled date of April 17. That day, the Senate held floor votes on impeachment charges brought by the House against Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security.
In the customary late-afternoon hearing, the Armed Services subcommittee that oversees U.S. nuclear forces and nuclear-weapon sites will hear from two panels: one that includes Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and a second that includes her weapons deputy Marvin Adams, who runs NNSA’s Office of Defense Programs.
The panel Hruby is on also includes William “Ike” White, the senior advisory for environmental management and top federal manager for the Department of Energy nuclear-weapon-sites cleanup program, and Navy Adm. William Houston, NNSA deputy administrator for the Office of Naval Reactors.
The panel featuring Adams also will include Gen. Thomas Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, and Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, director for strategic systems programs for the Navy.
The hearing was to be livestreamed.
Hruby already faced the full Armed Services Committee on April 17 with her boss, Jennifer Granholm, the secretary of energy.
In the April hearing, Hruby again discussed the agency’s plans to manufacture plutonium pits for a new Navy warhead at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and disclosed a funding request the agency made for a warhead to tip the congressionally mandated nuclear Sea Launched Cruise Missile.
Editor’s note, April 29, 2024, 11:43 a.m. Eastern time. The story was corrected to show the subcommittee before which Hruby will testify.
