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Business/FinancialFluor Posts Fourth Quarter Loss
Earnings fell at Fluor [FLR] in the fourth quarter, which the engineering and construction company, active in the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex, attributed Tuesday to a legal settlement […]
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Defense Watch: F-35 Backfill, Pony Express, BAE Deal Closes, VLS Re-Arming
F-35 International Backfill. On Feb. 15, Sheila Kahyaoglu, a defense/aerospace equity analyst at Jefferies, wrote that Lockheed Martin “has a backlog/commitments for nearly 3,500 F-35s with the program generating about […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBill To Block Tax Credits For Pits Percolating in New Mexico Legislature
A New Mexico legislative committee this month passed a bill to stop the prime contractor of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from claiming state tax credits for making nuclear-weapon cores.If […]
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Defense Watch; USAF Munition MYPs, Drone Stacks, Palantir, Voyager Partner
USAF Munition Multi-Years. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says that multi-years “incentivize” industry production line investments and give companies “some assurance that they’re gonna have funding for continued acquisition […]
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Defense Watch: FMTV Extension, Medium Tactical Truck, PSC Progress
FMTV Extension. The Army plans to extend its Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) contract with Oshkosh Defense for an additional three years, estimating it may order an additional 1,343 […]
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Defense Watch: UUVs, Space Fence, MH-139 First Flight, Ruppersberger Retiring, Monopsony Blues
Aussie-Japanese UUVs? The Australian Defense ministry said it signed a bilateral research agreement with Japan focused on undersea autonomy. The agreement is between Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Group and […]
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Defense Watch: Autonomy Prime, Small Biz Cyber, Starlink, Red Flag
Autonomy Prime. The U.S. Air Force’s innovation arm, AFWERX, said that it plans to release an Innovative Capabilities Offering and Autonomy Prime’s first fly-off solicitation in the near future for […]
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Navy/USMCHouston Takes Over Top Post at Naval Nuclear Propulsion
More than six months after his nomination, and just shy of a month after his Senate confirmation, Adm. Bill Houston on Thursday took over as director of the Naval Nuclear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationParsons Gets $21 Million Deal For Los Alamos Construction Management
Parsons [PSN] announced the award of a $21 million task order by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Infrastructure to continue managing construction projects at Los Alamos National […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Names Former Boeing Exec To Board of Directors
Nuclear naval reactor builder BWX Technologies [BWXT] has named former Boeing [BA] executive Nicole Piasecki to its board of directors effective Jan. 2. Piasecki spent 25 years with Boeing in […]