Nuclear Stockpile
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BudgetFirst GBSD Missiles Might Go Into the Ground With Old Minuteman III Warheads
When the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) arrives to replace the Minuteman III silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Minuteman III’s old nuclear warheads might go right back into the ground […]
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BudgetNNSA, DoE Selling Softer Take on Budget Drama That Could Cost the Navy a Submarine
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is selling its own version of intra-DoE skirmish that ended in January with President Trump approving a much larger raise for the civilian nuclear-weapons […]
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BudgetArmed Services Chair Says DoE Has Cash Pile, Questions Planned Raid on Pentagon Progs for Nuke Mods
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday began to ink the contours of the 2021 nuclear-weapons budget fight to come, when the committee chair wondered in a hearing why the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Seeks Massive Increase for ICBM Warhead, Pit Infrastructure in 2021
The Department of Energy seeks nearly a four-fold funding increase for development of the the W87-1, silo-based intercontinental ballistic-missile warhead in fiscal year 2021, plus more than $1 billion to […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoD Plans W93 To Succeed W76 and W88 SLBM Warheads
The Defense Department plans to use the proposed Mk 7 W93 submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile (SLBM) warhead to eventually replace the current W76 and W88 warheads without increasing the size […]
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Business/FinancialFluor Nixes Planned Sale of Gov Biz, Including Civilian Nuke Contracts
Engineering and procurement giant Fluor [FLR] reversed course and decided not sell its government contracting business, which has contracts with Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex, and Department of Defense, the […]
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Business/FinancialNNSA to Contract for More JASON Work by April
The Department of Energy plans to issue the MITRE Corp.-funded JASON group of civilian scientists more nuclear security work by the end of April, according to a procurement note published […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDecision On Next U.S. Uranium Enrichement Tech Pushed To ‘End Of Year’ To Give Oak Ridge ‘Fair Shot’ Against Centrus
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Nuclear Security Administration delayed a choice about whether to use government or commercially developed uranium enrichment technology for defense needs by nearly a year because […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSavannah River Pit Plant Design to be Finished by End of June
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Department of Energy contractor in charge of the Savannah River Site plans to finalize by June the design for a new pit plant capable of making […]
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Nuclear Modernization
LANL, LLNL Directors Won’t Say Who’d Own W93 Sea-Based Warhead; Hint at Competition
It remained uncertain Monday whether Los Alamos National Laboratory or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory would design the proposed, sea-based W93 warhead after the directors of each lab declined to say […]