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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationDoD Policy Official Ducks Question About Delivery of Nuclear Cores if Congress Block Planned Plutonium Plant
A senior defense official declined to say Wednesday whether the Department of Energy can deliver nuclear warheads for next-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles on time if Congress does not fund both […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDOE Lab To Seek Bids On Waste Treatment Plant For Warhead Core Factory
The Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to solicit bids in October for design and construction of a facility to treat liquid transuranic waste generated by future production of fissile nuclear-weapon cores, called […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPentagon Cans JASON Even As Group Works Three Studies For NNSA
The Pentagon is pulling the plug on the contract for the JASON civilian science advisory panel even as contractor MITRE Corp. works on multiple studies for the National Nuclear Security […]
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PentagonWhite House Nominates Stratcom Commander for Vice Chair, Joint Chiefs
The White House nominated Air Force Gen. John Hyten to be vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, opening up a vacancy at both the nation’s top nuclear command […]
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UncategorizedBWXT Blunder With Columbia Missile Tube Welds Chewed Two-Thirds of Program’s Margin
BWX Technologies’ [BWXT] mistake last year welding ballistic-missile tubes for the first Columbia-class submarine consumed 15 of the 23 months of schedule cushion built into the Common Missile Compartment program, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationB83 Bomb Can Go 5-7 More Years Without Major Refurb, DoE Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) can only wait five to seven more years before beginning a potentially costly life-extension program on the megaton-class B83 gravity bomb, a senior agency […]
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BudgetKaptur Goes After NNSA Weapons Programs in 2020 Budget Hearing
The head of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) moved to protect weapons life-extension programs and plutonium infrastructure from the budget ax wielded here Tuesday by the House’s top […]
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BudgetNNSA Again Seeks Substantial Increase for W80 Refurb
Proportionally or by raw dollars, the W80-4 life-extension program would get the biggest increase of any active Department of Energy warhead refurbishment in 2020, if the Trump administration’s budget request […]
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Navy/USMCLawmakers, Indo-Pacom Commander Link Arms Against Fleet Cuts
A pair of lawmakers from important Navy-heavy districts on Wednesday enlisted help from the head of Indo-Pacific command to slow shrinkage of the U.S. attack-submarine fleet, and prevent the early […]
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Nuclear Modernization
DoE Nuke Budget Request Lacks ‘Clear Priorities,’ House Approps Cardinal Says
A day after the Department of Energy released some 650 pages of details on its $16.5-billion nuclear-weapons budget request for 2020, the chair of the House Appropriations panel that funds […]