The National Nuclear Security
Administration, already under fire for billions of dollars of cost overruns,
has underestimated by billions more how much it will cost to refurbish the
nation’s stockpile of B61 nuclear bombs, according to an independent cost assessment
commissioned by the agency.
Already juggling its budget to cope with existing
problems, the agency will likely need to come up with another $1 billion per
year for the next few years if the project is to go ahead as currently
envisioned.
Among the biggest shortcomings is a significant underestimate of
the amount of systems engineering work to be done at Sandia National
Laboratories in Albuquerque
Sandia has estimated it will need more than 600 people working on the project
by 2014, but the independent assessment says that number probably is too low.
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