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end process from novel design conception through 
engineering, building, and non-nuclear testing of 
a prototype.’’ 
(2) In March 2016 testimony before the House 
Committee on Armed Services regarding a December 
2016 Defense Science Board (DSB) report titled, 
‘‘Seven Defense Priorities for the New Administra-
tion’’, members of the DSB said: 
(A) ‘‘A key contributor to nuclear deterrence 
is the continuous, adaptable exercise of the devel-
opment, design, and production functions for nu-
clear weapons in both the DOD and DOE... Yet 
the DOE laboratories and DOD contractor com-
munity have done little integrated design and 
development work outside of life extension for 25 
years, let alone concept development that could 
serve as a hedge to surprise.’’ 
(B) ‘‘The Defense Science Board believes 
that the triad’s complementary features remain 
robust tenets for the design of a future force. Re-
placing our current, aging force is essential, but 
not sufficient in the more complex nuclear envi-
ronment we now face to provide the adaptability 
or flexibility to confidently hold at risk what ad-
versaries value. In particular, if the threat 
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evolves in ways that favorably change the cost/ 
benefit calculus in the view of an adversary’s 
leadership, then we should be in a position to 
quickly restore a credible deterrence posture.’’ 
(3) In a memorandum dated May 9, 2014, then- 
Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz said: 
(A) ‘‘If nuclear military capabilities are to 
provide deterrence for the nation they need to be 
relevant to the emerging global strategic environ-
ment. The current stockpile was designed to meet 
the needs of a bipolar world with roots in the 
Cold War era. A more complex, chaotic, and dy-
namic security environment is emerging. In 
order to uphold the Department’s mission to en-
sure an effective nuclear deterrent... we must en-
sure our nuclear capabilities meet the challenges 
of known and potential geopolitical and techno-
logical trends. Therefore we must look ahead, 
using the expertise of our laboratories, to how the 
capabilities that may be employed by other na-
tions could impact deterrence over the next sev-
eral decades.’’ 
(B) ‘‘We must challenge our thinking about 
our programs of record in order to permit fore-
sighted actions that may reduce, in the coming 
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decades, the chances for surprise and that but-
tress deterrence.’’ 
(b) DESIGN COMPETITION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—In accordance with para-
graph (2), the Administrator for Nuclear Security, in 
coordination with the Chairman of the Nuclear Weap-
ons Council, shall carry out a new and comprehensive 
design competition for a nuclear warhead that could 
be employed on ballistic missiles of the United States 
by 2030. Such competition shall— 
(A) examine options for warhead design 
and related delivery system requirements in the 
2030s, including— 
(i) life extension of existing weapons; 
(ii) new capabilities; and 
(iii) such other concepts that the Ad-
ministrator and Chairman determine nec-
essary to fully exercise and create responsive 
design capabilities in the enterprise and en-
sure a robust nuclear deterrent into the 
2030s; 
(B) assess how the capabilities and defenses 
that may be employed by other nations could im-
pact deterrence in 2030 and beyond and how 
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such threats could be addressed or mitigated in 
the warhead and related delivery systems; 
(C) exercise the full set of design skills nec-
essary for an effective nuclear deterrent and re-
sponsive enterprise through production of concep-
tual designs and, as the Administrator deter-
mines appropriate, production of non-nuclear 
prototypes of components or subsystems; and 
(D) examine and recommend actions for 
significantly shortening timelines and signifi-
cantly reducing costs associated with design, de-
velopment, certification, and production of the 
warhead, without reducing worker or public 
health and safety. 
(2) TIMING.—The Administrator shall— 
(A) during fiscal year 2018 develop a plan 
to carry out paragraph (1); and 
(B) during fiscal year 2019 implement such 
plan. 
(c) BRIEFING.—Not later than March 1, 2018, the Ad-
ministrator, in coordination with the Chairman of the Nu-
clear Weapons Council, shall provide a briefing to the Com-
mittees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives on the plan of the Administrator to carry out 
the warhead design competition under subsection (b). Such 
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briefing shall include an assessment of the costs, benefits, 
risks, and opportunities of such plan, particularly impacts 
to ongoing life extension programs and infrastructure 
projects. 
SEC. 3122. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY COUNTERINTEL-
LIGENCE POLYGRAPH PROGRAM. 
Section 4504(b) of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 
U.S.C. 2654(b)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) The regulations prescribed under paragraph (1) 
shall ensure that the persons subject to the counterintel-
ligence polygraph program required by subsection (a) in-
clude any person who is— 
‘‘(A) a United States national who also has the 
nationality of a foreign state; and 
‘‘(B) seeking employment with the National Nu-
clear Security Administration.’’. 
SEC. 3123. SECURITY CLEARANCE FOR DUAL-NATIONALS 
EMPLOYED BY NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECU-
RITY AGENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The National Nuclear Security Ad-
ministration Act (50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) is amended by 
inserting after section 3236 the following new section: 
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