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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationNuclear programs Especially Susceptible To Supply Chain Crunch, STRATCOM Nominee Says
Ongoing problems moving goods from one place to another has affected schedules across the Department of Defense and nuclear-weapon programs have been hit especially hard, the nominee to lead U.S. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDespite Russia, Congress, Biden Admin Still Doesn’t Want SLCM-N, Pentagon Official Says
Though some in the U.S. government feel Russia will rely increasingly on non-conventional and nuclear arms, including tactical nuclear weapons, that does not make a case for continuing development of […]
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CongressReed Wants To Pass Senate NDAA in September; Bill Needs Reconciling With House Version
The Senate may not pass its big defense policy bill before voters decide who controls Congress in November’s midterm elections, the head of the chamber’s Armed Services Committee said Wednesday […]
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Nuclear ModernizationW80-4 Is Only Nuclear Warhead Refurb Seeing Big Delays From Pandemic, DoE Official Says
An air-launched cruise missile warhead was not the only major civilian nuclear-weapons program slowed by COVID-19 supply chain snafus, but it was the only one drastically affected by the pandemic […]
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Zerkle To Be No. 2 At Livermore
Longtime Los Alamos National Laboratory manager Carolyn Zerkle will become deputy director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory effective Sept. 12, the California nuclear-weapon design lab said Monday. Zerkle spent […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNevada Nuke Site Contractor Nets Five-Year Extension
In the latest mega-extension for a nuclear-weapons site-management contractor, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) locked in a Honeywell [HON]-led team for five more years at the Nevada National Security […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Still Having Problems With Missile Tubes For Nuclear Subs
While it has fixed the bad welds that plagued the program last decade, BWX Technologies [BXWT], Lynchburg, Va., is still having trouble manufacturing common missile compartment tubes for Columbia-, Virginia– […]
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UncategorizedTwo-Year Delay For First LRSO Warhead, But NNSA Says Will Still Deliver On-Time to Air Force
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) now expects to produce the proof-of-concept article for the refurbished W80 nuclear cruise-missile warhead by the end of fiscal year 2027, roughly two years […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Finishes Split of HQ Procurement Offices; Reorg Meant to Up Focus on M&O Contractors
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) this week split its two headquarters-based procurement offices into three, the head of the agency said. Effective Monday, the agency’s Washington-based procurement bureaucracy comprises: […]
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CongressHouse, Senate NDAAs Both Want Much More For Nuke-Core Factory In South Carolina
The Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday released all the unclassified details of its fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, showing lawmakers in that chamber disagree with their House […]
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