Nuclear Modernization

BWX Technologies [BWXT] said Thursday it has received a contract to procure long-lead components for U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers, which including options is worth $806 million over […]

The No. 2 official at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday briefed members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board on the “staggering goal” of swelling the […]

Tensions are building — or perhaps have boiled over — between Boeing and Northrop Grumman on potentially $100 billion worth of work, over five decades, replacing and maintaining the ground-based leg of […]

It will cost a combined $850 million or so to replace commercial capacitors unsuitable for use with a refurbished nuclear gravity bomb and submarine-launched warhead, a senior National Nuclear Security […]

Three U.S. senators — two Democratic presidential candidates and one of the party’s premier nuclear doves — urged House and Senate lawmakers negotiating the final version of the 2020 National […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Air Force is considering whether to move funding from the B-1B Lancer program to buy additional next-generation B-21 bombers in the fiscal year 2021 budget, […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Keeping the threat of a bid protest in his back pocket, a Boeing executive said here Tuesday that the Air Force can save time and money […]

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration would get every penny it sought in fiscal year 2020 and then some, under a Senate Appropriations Committee bill that would give […]

The next-generation, nuclear-armed, intercontinental ballistic missile that Boeing [BA] has vowed not to prime would get $65 million more than the White House requested for 2020, if a bill advanced […]

It could take a year-and-a-half longer than thought to finish a pair of crucial nuclear weapon refurbishments, a senior National Nuclear Security Administration official said on Wednesday. The first production […]