we should all recognize the accomplishments of nnsa in 2024. [applause] i will start my comments by discussing the current global environment and its impact on our mission. then i will go through accomplishments in detail and updates over the last year that demonstrate how we are adapting and tackling the changing landscape. this hat -- as has been the case for several years, we are confronted by an international security lengths tape -- international nuclear security landscape with overlapping challenges. i often say these are unprecedented times. not since the cold war have we had seven simultaneous weapons programs and not since the manhattan project have we so fundamentally overhauled our infrastructure. combining the two together is surely unprecedented. the global nuclear environment remains dynamic with a mix of long-standing and novel challenges. russia maintains the world's largest nuclear arsenal and has lowered the threshold on nuclear use. at the same time, china represents a unique long-term challenge for nnsa. although there nucle

nnsa made significant progress on the infrastructure to support reduction lastru year. nnsa hit production and achieve significant milestone by establishing the training center, keep facility to teach critical skills and develop competency in various machining tool cooperations for trading. 80000 square feet of warehouses weremo completed for storage in areas with the equipment, equipe for radiological work other equipment prior to installation at the toning facility. to wrap up i first want to encourage everyone here to attend tomorrow's keynote on strategic policyom planning at nnsa. we'll have a more in-depth look at some of the initiatives aimed at making us more agile, efficient, and able to deliver on ouren mission including systm of contract. there will also be a discussion of workforce development the relationship between headquarters, or field office contractors. i'm very proud of all that we have and will accomplish and i am incredibly humbled i guess be part of this mission. together we will continue to embrace adaptability, flexibility and resilience in the

he worked with nnsa, we made a big deal who worked with nnsa to get our salaries aligned with what thearket would provide. worked on benefits. i will talk about one in a minutes. back to the work to implement trying to move some of these death by a thousand cuts that are happening, and how difficult it was to get things done at the laboratory. and i'm happy to say now, our attrition numbers are less than they were pre-covid. and in hot fields, like you would never believe people with ai experience would be willing to even work for market conditions, we can negotiate with nnsa, our attrition number is less than 1%. and they get to work on machine learning and ai to actually help with nuclear deterrence. we've got things like creating bots that are design experts, working at making everything procurement to training more efficient for engineers and scientists. the one thing that blew us away that nnsa allowed to negotiate our benefits is two floating holidays. i thought, that's great. always like to have a couple extra days off. and turned out that was a huge deal to our employees. becau

in a statement sent to abc seven news, the nnsa says it will allow them to be better able to fulfill current and future national security missions, and that upgrading the security infrastructure of the plutonium facility will ensure that it remains safe for both the employees and the public. ahead of a planned environmental impact report, the lawrence livermore lab will host a virtual public hearing wednesday. an event giant is encouraging everyone concerned to attend. >> it's a crucial for the public to show they're paying attention and get out there and participate in the public comment period on this scoping period so that we have a robust draft document when it comes out that reflects the public's concern. >> in livermore, tim jonze, abc seven news. >> all right. we want to turn now to the weather as we take a live look out at the conditions right now. it may be dry for the moment, but there is rain on the way. abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the details. i almost thought it was going to come early. sandhya. it was so gloomy this morning. >> it was ama. yo

we worked with nnsa. our salaries aligned with the market would provide we worked on benefits all talk about when here in just a minute. an environment that worked in the excellence initiative trying to move some death by 1000 cuts that were happening how difficult it was to get things done at the laboratory. i'm happy to say it now are attrition numbers are less than they were pre-covered. you would never believe people with ai experience would be willing to work for market conditions but we can negotiate the attrition number is less than 1%. they get to work on machine learning and ai to help with nuclear deterrence. we got things like n creating bs that are design experts making everything from procurement, to training more efficient for engineers and scientists. the one thing that blew us away was to floating holidays. that's great you like to have a couple extra days off. it found it was a huge deal to our employees. all the holidays week group together a lot coming into play and how we get our work

quite frankly, most of the investment in super computers comes from nnsa precisely to do this, they have invested heavily in super computing to model the effects of nuclear welcomes. so that is my argument. i think we need everything, every tool that american innovation can give us to preserve our security and i think ai in nc3 is an appropriate use. >> thank you. >> please. >> this is the most awkward part. [laughter] >> great, okay. all right. well, thank you, sara for the wonderful opening comments and thank you, heather and chris for this and csis for hosting the discussion and thank you all for coming and online. should we take the most dangerous weapons humanity has ever built which has the potential to kill millions to integrate in command and control a completely unreliable technology that we do not understand? no, we should not do that. in fact, it's such a bad idea that the idea of integrating ai into command and control has been fictionalized as one of the dumbest things that humanity could ever do. sky net, ai villain attempts to wipe out humanity in the series, ai into nucle

in a statement sent to abc seven news, the nnsa says it will allow them to be better able to fulfill and future national security missions, and that upgrading the security infrastructure of the plutonium facility will ensure that it remains safe for both the employees and the public. ahead of a planned environmental impact report, the lawrence livermore lab will host a virtual public hearing wednesday. an event giant is encouraging everyone concerned to attend. >> it's a crucial for the public to show they're paying attention and get out there and participate in the public comment period on thisthe scoping period so that we have a robust draft document when it comes out that reflects the public's concern. >> in livermore, tim jonze, abc seven news. >> hey, the rain finally returns to the bay area soon after a long stretch of dry weather. imagine never paying for groceries again. well, what if i can't decide? avocados or tomatoes? why choose? at grocery outlet, you can afford both. and not just the basics. with grocery outlet, you'll find all your favorite brands included. including g

he was the chief scientist for nnsa and stood up the office of artificial intelligence technologies. as he retires, i truly wish him the greatest journey in the next chapter of his life. fair winds and following seas. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of jab 3, 2025, the gentleman from arizona, mr. schweikert, is recognized for 60 minutes as designee of the majority leader. mr. schweikert: thank you, mr. speaker pro tem. for the gentleman from pennsylvania. a bit of reference. in the old days when we were put in the chair, particularly when we were freshmen it was because we were annoying to the speaker. if anyone remembers that. to the clerk staff, i love you, priesht you, i'm sorry we're about to do a whole bunch of math and a lot of numbers really fast. but it's well read. so mr. speaker, one of the things i'm going to try to do today is basically sell two ideas. one is, and i want to be honest and careful in this. my goal is not to be sarcastic, not to be a jerk. but walk through the scale, just the scale, of the following. s