Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was set to testify Tuesday in Washington during a hearing of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
The hearing, “The United States, China and the Fight for Global Leadership: Building a U.S. National Science and Technology Strategy,” was on the slate for 10:00 a.m. Eastern time.
Budil was the only scheduled witness from a Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratory.
The hearing will discuss “the current state of the United States’ science and technology enterprise and how it is impacting our global leadership, as well as threats to that leadership from the Chinese Communist Party,” according to a hearing charter posted online.
The committee planned to stream the hearing on its website via YouTube. The House Science, Space and Technology Committee does not have jurisdiction over DOE nuclear weapons programs. That oversight is reserved for the Armed Services Committee.
