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Air ForceAir Force Aims For F-35 Nuclear Certification in January, But Jets Won’t Be Ready Then
The Air Force expects to certify the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to carry nuclear weapons in January, once sufficient numbers of pilots and ground crew are trained to carry out […]
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BudgetEnergy Appropriator Hopes to Avoid Government Shutdown
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) Tuesday prodded hundreds of people here for the National Cleanup Workshop to urge their congressional representatives to avoid a federal government shutdown but stopped short of […]
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Business/FinancialEarnings and Revenue Rise at Parsons In Second Quarter
Revenue and earnings rose in the second quarter at Parsons Corp. [PSN], Centreville, Va., buoyed year-over-year by the start of some federal contract work and the 2022 acquisition of cyber […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHII, Babcock International Sign Nuclear Decommissioning, Construction MOU
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] and U.K.-based defense contractor Babcock International signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on civilian- and naval-nuclear decommissioning, the companies said Monday. “That’s everything from power […]
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Nuclear ModernizationU.S. Publishes Nuclear Weapons Numbers as Russia Ignores Treaty Obligations
The U.S. State Department released aggregate numbers of strategic offensive nuclear weapons on Monday, its obligation under the New START treaty, despite Russia’s refusal to participate further in the bilateral […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuclear Sub Deal Raises Questions About Australia’s Storage of Radioactive Waste
Australian leaders are concerned about the nuclear waste the country’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet, which the country will buy and then build under the AUKUS deal with the U.S. and U.K. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationUS Still Waiting For Russia To Explain What Moscow’s Suspension of Last Nuke Treaty Means
Russia’s suspension last week of the world’s biggest bilateral nuclear-weapons treaty is not official yet and Moscow was still talking to the State Department about the treaty as of Monday, […]
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Russia to ‘Suspend’ Participation in New START But Stick to Treaty’s Warhead Limits
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said Tuesday Russia will “suspend” its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty but adhere to the treaty’s limits on deployed strategic nuclear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCourt Will Wait Until Late Summer To Decide Fate of Lawsuit About S.C. Nuclear-Weapon Plant
A nearly two year-old federal lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) planned plutonium-pit plant in South Carolina should enter its final stages this summer, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDelays Mount For Underground Lab Upgrades Seen As Critical For New Navy Nuke
Upgrades to a nuclear-weapon test facility in Nevada are falling further behind schedule, government officials and weapon-site managers said Wednesday. Officially called Enhanced Capability for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE), the upgrades […]
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