The Navy issued a notice on Jan. 31 announcing a three-day long industry day focused on opportunities in unmanned surface and undersea vessels (USVs and UUVs, respectively), in accordance with the latest defense authorization bill.  The fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory will install by 2030 the equipment needed to make at least 30 plutonium pits annually, according to a Jan. 19 memo from the deputy secretary of energy. Formally known as the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project 30 Base Equipment Installation subproject, the ...

Defense electronics suppler Mercury Systems [MRCY] on Wednesday said it has hired financial advisers to help explore a possible sale of the company, which has been under pressure from an activist investor group to look for a potential buyer. The company said the strategic review was initiated by ...

House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled their committee and subcommittee rosters for the Appropriations Committee, naming Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) their top lawmaker on the panel overseeing funding of the Department of Homeland Security. Cuellar, who is considered a moderate, is joined by fellow ...

BAE Systems has received a nearly $652 million fixed-price level of effort contract modification from the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill AFB, Utah to support the Boeing [BA] Minuteman III ICBM and the future Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel. Work under the contract is “to ...

A Navy official this week outlined the submarine community’s challenges in needing to hire over 100,000 new workers over the next decade to maintain and improve shipbuilding and sustainment. “In the submarine community, we have a couple of key spots where we are hundreds to thousands of people ...