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Dan Leone
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Homeland SecurityNNSA Talked With LANL Bidders Last Week
Organizations bidding to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory met with National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) officials last week, marking one of the final steps in the competition for a […]
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BudgetDoE, DoD Officials Won’t Talk Timeline on NNSA
In separate congressional hearings here Tuesday, senior Energy and Defense officials declined to pin down the date at which the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) might start modifying an existing […]
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CongressPerry, Gordon-Hagerty Again Due on Capitol Hill for Budget Hearings
Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), are due to testify in Congress this week in separate budget hearings. It will be […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Should Publish Plan for ‘Entire Nuclear Security Enterprise,’ National Academies Says
The new head of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, in office less than a month, should direct the agency to produce an overarching plan for the future […]
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Congress
Senate Appropriations Chair Cochran to Retire in April Due to Ailing Health
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and huge advocate for shipbuilding, will retire April 1 due to ailing health, the 81 year-old lawmaker said Monday. […]
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Homeland SecurityStratCom Chief Says U.S. Nukes ‘Very Close to Zero Percent Modernized’
Although the Department of Energy has nearly finished the first of four ongoing warhead modernization programs, the U.S. nuclear arsenal is “very close to zero-percent modernized,” the general in charge […]
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Homeland SecurityTrump Taps Livermore Hand to Lead NNSA Weapons Programs
President Trump plans to nominate current Lawrence Livermore hand Charles Verdon to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) roughly $9-billion-a-year nuclear weapons portfolio.The White House announced its intention in […]
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Homeland SecurityNNSA Wants to Start Modification for Crucial Los Alamos Pit Facility
The Department of Energy said Friday it wants to do more plutonium chemistry and experiments in an existing building at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of a plan […]
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Homeland SecurityNNSA Pulls Trigger on $490 Million Option for BWXT Naval Reactor Contract
The Department of Energy in the fourth quarter of 2017 exercised an option worth more than $490 million on BWX Technologies’ [BWXT] naval nuclear propulsion parts production contract, the Lynchburg, […]
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Homeland Security
W80-4 Would Grab Lion’s Share of Proposed Budget Increase for NNSA Stockpile Work
Accelerating upgrades for the nuclear warhead slated to fly in the next decade on a new air-launched cruise missile would consume the single largest portion of the budget increase proposed […]