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Dan Leone
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Business/FinancialBWXT Chief Doesn’t Foresee Earnings Hit Over Botched Missile Tubes
Botched welding jobs on 12 missile tubes for the Navy’s next-generation ballistic-missile submarine should not materially affect tube-vendor BWX Technologies’ [BWXT] bottom line this year, the company’s chief executive said […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTop Nuke Targeting Officer Says U.S. At ‘Disadvantage’ Without Multilateral Nuke Reduction Treaty
OMAHA, Neb. — The United States could be at a strategic disadvantage without a multilateral nuclear arms-reduction treaty, the Navy admiral in charge of setting targets for U.S. nuclear weapons […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSTRATCOM Commander Says NNSA Must Resolve Pit Problems By Year’s End
OMAHA, Neb. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) may not be able to produce 80 nuclear-warhead cores a year by 2030 unless by the end of this year it […]
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Missile DefenseSTRATCOM Commander Dismisses Russian Suspicions of Japan Aegis Ashore Sites
OMAHA, Neb. — The head of U.S. Strategic command here dismissed Russian worries about two U.S.-designed missile defense systems headed to Japan as “political messaging,” insisting that the weapon is […]
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BudgetUnified NDAA Calls On Pentagon to Accelerate LRSO and GBSD
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House could vote on Thursday, calls on the Pentagon to speed up modernization of the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic-missile fleet and air-launched cruise […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCongress Releases DoE Nuke Details in NDAA Ahead of Thursday Vote
The House could vote Thursday morning on a compromise defense spending bill that would allow the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to build a new low-yield nuclear warhead in fiscal […]
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UncategorizedDecision to Study Stripping Tritium Mission from Savannah River ‘Routine,’ DoE Official Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decision to study transferring some $300 million in annual defense nuclear materials operations to Tennessee from South Carolina is “routine,” according to the head […]
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Nuclear ModernizationReturning Nuke Weapons Lab to Non-Profit Structure Key in Big Contract Win, Incoming Management Partner Says
Excising the profit-seeking mindset from the Los Alamos National Laboratory was key to keeping the University of California on the storied nuclear-weapons lab’s management team, an executive with the massive […]
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Navy/USMC
Fluor Taking Over Naval Nuclear Laboratory Oct. 1 Under Huge Contracts
Fluor Marine Propulsion, of Arlington, Va., on Thursday won major nuclear-warship support contracts, worth up to a combined total of roughly $30 billion over 10 years, from the National Nuclear […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Hyten to Tour DoE Nuclear Site in South Carolina Thursday
Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command and effectively customer-in-chief for the nuclear weapons maintained by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), is scheduled on Thursday to […]