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Nuclear ModernizationDem Senators Ask NDAA Negotiators to Pinch Funds for Pit Production
Three U.S. senators — two Democratic presidential candidates and one of the party’s premier nuclear doves — urged House and Senate lawmakers negotiating the final version of the 2020 National […]
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Nuclear ModernizationRebuffed by Northrop, Boeing Won’t Rule Out GBSD Protest; Appeals to AF for Mandatory Partnership on New ICBM
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Keeping the threat of a bid protest in his back pocket, a Boeing executive said here Tuesday that the Air Force can save time and money […]
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BudgetSenate Appropriators Approve Extra Funding for DoE Nuke Programs in 2020
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration would get every penny it sought in fiscal year 2020 and then some, under a Senate Appropriations Committee bill that would give […]
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BudgetSenate Appropriators Boost GBSD for 2020
The next-generation, nuclear-armed, intercontinental ballistic missile that Boeing [BA] has vowed not to prime would get $65 million more than the White House requested for 2020, if a bill advanced […]
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Nuclear Modernization
First B61-12, W88 Alt 370 Units Face 16-18 Month Delay
It could take a year-and-a-half longer than thought to finish a pair of crucial nuclear weapon refurbishments, a senior National Nuclear Security Administration official said on Wednesday. The first production […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Sandia Director Younger to Retire in December
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) confirmed Wednesday that Stephen Younger will retire as director of the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico effective Dec. 31, after two years […]
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AnalysisAnalysis: Force Boeing and Northrop Grumman to Play Nice on GBSD?
Editor’s note: This is an analysis produced by Defense Daily’s reporting team. It’s clear that Boeing [BA], which designed, built and serviced every Minuteman missile since the venerable launcher became […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Halfway Through submarine Missile Tube Fixes; Threatens Exit From Business
BWX Technologies [BWXT] is now about halfway through repairing 12 submarine missile tubes it welded incorrectly in 2018, Rex Geveden, president and chief executive officer of the Lynchburg, Va., nuclear-hardware […]
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Business/FinancialEarnings Dip, but BWXT Reactor Work Ramping Up in Q2
Earnings at BWX Technologies [BWXT], Lynchburg, Va., dipped slightly to just under $60 million even as second-quarter revenue rose 7% to about $470 million on the strength of busier work on […]
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InternationalUS, Russia Withdraw From INF Treaty
As long expected, the U.S. officially withdrew Friday from the 32-year-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, triggering a reciprocal withdrawal from Moscow and leaving both parties free to […]