Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationActing DNFSB Chair Anticipates No Layoffs In Impending Board Reorganization
Restructuring the independent federal agency charged with health and safety oversight at Department of Energy nuclear-weapon and cleanup sites will not involve layoffs, according to the head of the Defense […]
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Nuclear ModernizationFormer Air Force Colonel Takes Charge of Honeywell’s NNSA Work
An internal reorganization at Honeywell [HON] Aerospace has put the company’s work on four management and operations contracts with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under the management of single retired […]
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Nuclear Modernization
DNFSB Plans Major Reorganization
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said last Wednesday it will open two new field offices and cut its Washington workforce by almost half as part of a major […]
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Nuclear Modernization
White House Aims To Fill Long-Vacant No. 2 Position At NNSA
The White House on Friday announced the anticipated nominee to fill the number two slot at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which has been vacant throughout […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Chief Doesn’t Foresee Earnings Hit Over Botched Missile Tubes
Botched welding jobs on 12 missile tubes for the Navy’s next-generation ballistic-missile submarine should not materially affect tube-vendor BWX Technologies’ [BWXT] bottom line this year, the company’s chief executive said […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTop Nuke Targeting Officer Says U.S. At ‘Disadvantage’ Without Multilateral Nuke Reduction Treaty
OMAHA, Neb. — The United States could be at a strategic disadvantage without a multilateral nuclear arms-reduction treaty, the Navy admiral in charge of setting targets for U.S. nuclear weapons […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSTRATCOM Commander Says NNSA Must Resolve Pit Problems By Year’s End
OMAHA, Neb. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) may not be able to produce 80 nuclear-warhead cores a year by 2030 unless by the end of this year it […]
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BudgetUnified NDAA Calls On Pentagon to Accelerate LRSO and GBSD
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House could vote on Thursday, calls on the Pentagon to speed up modernization of the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic-missile fleet and air-launched cruise […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Congress Releases DoE Nuke Details in NDAA Ahead of Thursday Vote
The House could vote Thursday morning on a compromise defense spending bill that would allow the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to build a new low-yield nuclear warhead in fiscal […]
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Nuclear ModernizationReturning Nuke Weapons Lab to Non-Profit Structure Key in Big Contract Win, Incoming Management Partner Says
Excising the profit-seeking mindset from the Los Alamos National Laboratory was key to keeping the University of California on the storied nuclear-weapons lab’s management team, an executive with the massive […]