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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Seeks $410M For South Carolina Pit Plant in FY ’20
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking $410 million for fiscal 2020 to begin converting a canceled plutonium disposal plant in South Carolina into a factory to produce nuclear-warhead […]
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New Mexico Nuke Standard Bearer Udall Will Leave Senate After 2020
Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) a friend of the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories who has spent the last two decades on Capitol Hill, on Monday announced he will not […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHASC Chair Floats Cuts for GBSD, Extension for Minuteman III
To give the Pentagon more money to spend in the future, the U.S. could buy fewer new intercontinental ballistic missiles and again extend its aging fleet of nuclear-tipped Minuteman III […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHASC Chair Wouldn’t Stake Modernization on Arms Control Deal
The U.S. should modernize its nuclear forces whether it can secure arms control agreements with Russia or not, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee said here Tuesday at […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Seeks $16.5B for Nukes in 2020; Includes More Low-Yield Warhead Work
The White House is seeking $16.5 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for fiscal 2020: a roughly 8-percent increase from just over $15 billion in 2019 that, a […]
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Rank-and-File Dems Buck Smith on ICBM Value
The United States does not need intercontinental ballistic missiles to prevent a nuclear attack on its territory, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said in a hearing here […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Relationship With Pentagon ‘Never Stronger;’ Making Warheads Cores in S.C. ‘Won’t Be Easy
The relationship between the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Defense “has never been stronger,” the head of the semi-autonomous civilian weapons agency said Tuesday at a public […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSASC Chair Calls Continued Modernization, Arms Control Efforts ‘Excellent’ Plan for Nuke Policy
The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee praised as “excellent” the testimony of three former government officials who urged lawmakers Thursday to continue modernizing the entire nuclear triad and […]
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Navy/USMCOfficers Send Conflicting Signals on Columbia Program Margin
A Navy admiral and the head of U.S. Strategic Command sent conflicting signals in Washington on Tuesday about whether a botched welding job on long-lead parts of the Columbia-class submarine […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBWXT’s 2018 Earnings Soar on Sub Business; Company Getting Colder Feet on Follow-on Missile Tube Work
BWX Technologies [BWXT] said Monday it capped 2018 with better than 50 percent earnings growth after clinching more nuclear naval, environmental cleanup, and uranium downblending work from the Department of Energy. […]
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