The National Nuclear Security Administration is eying new opportunities for interagency cooperation agreements as it ramps up work with the Pentagon on key threat reduction issues, according to a senior NNSA official.rn"That is going to be the wave of the future, the way I see it," Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak, NNSA's principal assistant deputy administrator for military applications, said in a May 2 interview with Inside the Pentagon. "I think the days are long gone where one agency in the federal government is going to be either expected [to] or should even try to do everything amongst themselves."rnThe Defense Department, State Department and intelligence community are seeking interagency solutions to apply traditional, "hard" military power and diplomacy-driven "soft" power against threats to U.S. national security.rnAs that trend evolves, interagency cooperation among all agencies and departments - including NNSA - that handle national security issues will evolve past "than just having an [liaison officer] at each other's headquarters," Harencak said.
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