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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationCOVID-19 Cramped Columbia Tube Work, Navy Program Officer Says
Because of COVID-19, vendors to Columbia submarine prime General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat might be a few months late delivering missile tubes for the next-generation ballistic missile submarine, the Columbia […]
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PentagonFormer STRATCOM Hand Tapped for Pentagon Post With Nuclear Weapons Council Role
The Trump administration intends to nominate Lucas Polakowski, a former officer at U.S. Strategic Command, to be the top civilian in the Pentagon’s program to counter weapons of mass destruction. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAbout 1 Month Remains on Temporary COVID-19 Contractor Indemnity Determination
There is about one month left on the temporary indemnity determination the Department of Energy allowed nuclear-weapon sites to add to their management and operations contracts after the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Could be Ready to Go With Minimal Nuke Test in Nevada in ‘Months,’ Pentagon Official Says
It would take only a matter of months for the Department of Energy to perform an underground nuclear-explosive test with minimal diagnostics, a Pentagon official said Tuesday. Previous heads of […]
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COVID-19Random COVID-19 Tests Mandatory at Nuke Weapons Lab
Random tests for COVID-19 infection are now mandatory for personnel reporting to work at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to a recent note […]
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CongressTrump’s New Arms Control Negotiator Says Hurting Nuke Modernization Hurts Arms Control
Marshall Billingslea, President Trump’s new pointman on arms control, warned Thursday that if Congress slows down the ongoing U.S. nuclear modernization plan, it would undercut arms control negotiations with Russia […]
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COVID-19Respirators for COVID-19 Protection Will Cost NNSA More Than it Bargained For
It’s a good-news, bad-news week, regarding the 225,000 Chinese-made personal respirators the National Nuclear Security Administration ordered to protect employees and contractors from COVID-19. Good news, they’re still coming. Bad […]
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Energy Dept. Publishes Return-to-Work Guidelines
The Department of Energy late Monday published the framework that its employees and support services contractors will use to plan their return to federal sites and offices during the continuing […]
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DoE Nuclear Sites Still Resolving Subcontractor Reimbursement for COVID-19 Costs
Three weeks after the Department of Energy authorized operators of nuclear-weapon sites to bill the government for expenses associated with COVID-19 prevention, most of those prime contractors are still working […]
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CongressHouse’s $3T COVID-19 Relief Bill Offers Protections, Aid for Federal Contractors
Federal contractors would get leniency for missing deliverables because of their COVID-19 response plans, and prime contractors would be in line for quicker payments, under a Democratic Party-authored relief bill […]