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Dan Leone
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Air ForceMinuteman III Test Launch Featured Multiple RVs, Airborne Control Center
Air Force and Navy service members aboard an airplane on Tuesday remotely launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with three unarmed warheads from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Biz Insulates BWXT From Worst of Pandemic Ills; Partial Va. Sub Order Suits Company Fine, CEO Says
Insulated from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic by its large government contracts and a bread-and-butter nuclear Navy business that didn’t shut down in the spring, BWX Technologies [BWXT] posted […]
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Business/Financial
Navy Nuke Biz Insulates BWXT From Worst of Virus Ills
Insulated from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic by its big government contracts and a bread-and-butter nuclear-Navy business that never shuts down, BWX Technologies [BWXT] posted a modest uptick in […]
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Business/FinancialDraft Solicitation for New Pantex-Y-12 Contract Coming This Month, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will continue to bundle management of the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas in the post Consolidated Nuclear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Budget Needs Threatening Other Defense Programs, GAO Repeats
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office covered some old ground last week: the bigger budget the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) says it needs to keep planned programs […]
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CongressHouse Passes $18B Budget for DoE Nukes, White House Threatens Veto
The House of Representatives on Friday passed a $1.3 trillion “minibus” appropriations package that would give the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) $2 billion less than it requested for fiscal […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNo Pandemic Delay Yet for Navy, AF Nuke Refurbs, DoE Official Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) still plans to produce the first copy of a refurbished Navy submarine warhead in 2021, and the first copy of a refurbished nuclear gravity […]
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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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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Should Delay Nuclear Warhead For Cruise Missile or Justify Why it Won’t, GAO Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration should either delay by a year its promised delivery-date for the proof-of-concept unit of the next-generation nuclear cruise-missile warhead, or justify why it won’t, the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTurner Proposes Small Funding Boost for DoE Nuke Weapons Programs
The House Rules Committee on Monday decided not to write rules of debate for a package of spending bills that includes 2021 funding for Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs, […]