Robert Scher, the Obama Administration’s nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans andrnCapabilities, will attend a second confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee Dec. 8, afterrnsome senators requested additional time to ask questions after the first hearing this week. Next week’s hearing willrnfall six days after Scher’s first day of SASC testimony, during which he signaled support for nuclear modernizationrnand fixing the problems found in recent reviews of the nuclear enterprise. “[W]e have spent a lot of time working tornensure we understand the needs of the defense nuclear enterprise and actually are funding it at a rate that is thatrnwe think will make sure that we can preserve the modernization of it and fix some of the problems that were foundrnin the multiple reviews,” Scher said, responding to a question by SASC Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.).
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