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Nuclear ModernizationAt Least One Civilian Nuclear Contractor Suspends COVID Vaccine Mandate After Federal Judge’s Ruling
Sources said the management and operations contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two big nuclear-weapons production sites suspended its employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate this week after a federal judge […]
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Nuclear ModernizationJudge Blocks Contractor Mandate; Most DoE Site Contracts Already Contain Mandate
A federal judge in Georgia blocked the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for contractors on Tuesday, almost exactly three months after Biden issued an executive order requiring shots for workers […]
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DoE HQ Seeking Regular COVID Tests for Employees in Washington Region
A year into the pandemic, the Department of Energy is officially in the market for routine COVID-19 tests for employees who work at the agency’s Washington area headquarters, according to […]
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COVID-19Nuke Engineering Labs Had Nine New COVID Cases Last Week
The Sandia National Laboratories confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 among its workforce last week, raising the lab network’s total since the start of the outbreak to 86 cases. As […]
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Unmanned SystemsArtificial Intelligence-Enabled F-16 Simulators to Conduct Final AlphaDogfight Trials Against Pilots This Week
The third and final competition in DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials between artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled F-16 simulators and U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots is to take place virtually this […]
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New Mexico Nuke-Lab Building Reopens After COVID-19 Case
A Sandia National Laboratories building where the lab conducts performance tests on non-nuclear nuclear-weapons components opened back up for its regular work schedule Monday after closing down for a COVID-19 […]
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Navy/USMCGeurts: MQ-25 Progressing, Moving To EMD Production Soon
The Navy’s top acquisition official expressed confidence in the Boeing [BA] MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier tanker program after a recent visit to the test asset, noting production of the first […]
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COVID-19‘Many’ COVID-19 Transmissions at DoE Nuke Sites Were Outside of Work, Senior Official Says
“Many” of the nearly 250 National Nuclear Security Administration employees confirmed to have caught COVID-19 are believed to have contracted the disease while teleworking, the head of the nuclear-weapons agency […]
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DoE Headquarters, Site See Jump in Confirmed COVID-19 Cases
The Department of Energy confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 among the staff of its Washington, D.C., area headquarters, including someone who was at the office recently, in a statement […]
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COVID-19COVID-19 Cases At NNSA Up By 26 As Y-12 Worker Dies
An employee at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee died last week from COVID-19, as confirmed cases of the disease across the Department of Energy’s active nulcear-weapons complex again […]