Senate Hearing on 2023 National Nuclear Security Administration Budget

• •The NNSA fiscal year 2023 budget request is $21.4 billion, a 3.6% increase ($754.4 million) over fiscal year 2022.
• •The Weapons Activities Account is allocated $16.5 billion, a 3.5% increase ($566.2 million).
• •Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation programs are held at flat funding levels.
• •The NNSA is required to produce 80 plutonium pits per year by 2030 but expects to miss this deadline by 2 to 5 years.
• •The budget includes a $2.4 billion increase for pit production modernization and infrastructure.
• •The proposed budget eliminates the tactical submarine-launched cruise missile and retires the B83 Gravity Bomb.
• •The Uranium Processing Facility has a projected completion date of 2026.
• •NNSA is currently working on five warhead modernization programs: W88 Alt 370, B61-12, W80-4, W87-1, and W93.
• •Nonproliferation achievements cited include the removal of 7,230 kilograms of weapons-usable nuclear material and the deployment of 930 counter-nuclear smuggling systems.

The proposed $21.4 billion budget represents a 3.6% increase over the previous year and dictates the funding levels for U.S. nuclear weapons modernization, infrastructure maintenance, and global nuclear nonproliferation programs for the 2023 fiscal year.

Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.