LOS ALAMOS TO REPAY NNSA $10M FOR BOTCHED SECURITY PROJECT

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Los Alamos National Security, LLC, has agreed to repay $10 million to the National Nuclear Security Administration to help restart a botched project to upgrade security at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The lab revealed in late September that the stalled Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrade Project had been badly mismanaged and poorly executed, significantly delaying the effort and potentially driving up costs by tens of millions of dollars. But the agreement would appear to reduce the cost of fixing the project and lessen delays in completing the effort: according to the agreement, the NNSA will resume funding the project Dec. 14 and LANS will work with its subcontractors to restart the project "as efficiently and economically as possible." Previous estimates had suggested the lab would not restart work on the project until the spring, but lab spokesman Fred DeSousa said that some engineering work had already begun and an "orderly ramp-up" would take place over the next several weeks.