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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore Wraps Customer Requirements Review for W87-1, Holds to 2030 First-Production Date
In the second-to-last week of fiscal year 2020, the Department of Energy wrapped up its customer requirements review with the Department of Defense for the W87-1 intercontinental ballistic missile warhead, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE May Need to Ready First GBSD Warhead Variant for Tests in Three Years, AF Official Says
The Department of Energy may need to start qualifying the W87 warhead for service aboard Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Missiles in roughly three years, the Air Force’s program director for […]
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Business/FinancialTeaming Arrangements Taking Shape for Competition to Manage Civilian Nuclear Weapon Production Sites
The competitive landscape for the potentially 10-year, $28-billion contract to manage the Department of Energy’s two big nuclear weapons production sites is starting to come into focus, now that the […]
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COVID-19LANL Had a Couple New COVID Cases Last Week
The Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed a pair of COVID-19 cases among its workforce last week, during which the lab performed nearly 400 tests for the viral disease, a spokesperson […]
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA Estimates W87-1 Will Cost Almost $15B, GAO Questions Ready Date
According to a recently declassified report, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) thinks it will cost some $14.8 billion to build W87-1 warheads for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) […]
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Business/Financial
Sievers Taking Over as Y-12 Site Manager as CNS Leadership Shuffle Continues
Gene Sievers is taking over as manager of the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., backfilling a position left vacant after his predecessor was promoted as part of […]
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COVID-19Sandia Office Space Being Cleaned Up After Confirmed COVID-19 Case
Sandia National Laboratories was preparing Tuesday to reopen its MO285 office space after deep-cleaning the area after an employee there tested positive for COVID-19, the nuclear-weapons engineering hub said. Only […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Brain-Drain in Military ‘Bottomed Out,’ ‘Turned the Corner,’ LLNL Resident Scholar Says
A nuclear brain-drain in the military has shown signs of reversing course in the decade-plus since the mistaken delivery of nuclear-armed cruise missiles to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, […]
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COVID-19
Nuclear Weapons Labs Picked Up Four Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Last Week
The Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories combined picked up less than a handful of new confirmed COVID-19 cases last week, the New Mexico nuke sites reported late last week […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Refreshes ‘Just Barely in Time,’ NNSA ‘Challenged’ to Deliver, Hyten Says
Congress’ fight over the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 2021 budget poses “challenges” for rolling out new nuclear delivery systems and carrier vehicles that already are poised to debut “just […]