A senior defense official declined to say Wednesday whether the Department of Energy can deliver nuclear warheads for next-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles on time if Congress does not fund both the plutonium-pit production plants the civilian agency wants to build. “I’m aware of ...

The leader of Air Force Global Strike Command expects the cost of the service’s new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to increase in the short term, he said April 17. However, Gen. Timothy Ray is not concerned about the impact to the ongoing Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program, ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to solicit bids in October for design and construction of a facility to treat liquid transuranic waste generated by future production of fissile nuclear-weapon cores, called plutonium pits, according to a Monday procurement note. Triad National Security, ...

The Pentagon is pulling the plug on the contract for the JASON civilian science advisory panel even as contractor MITRE Corp. works on multiple studies for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), according to recent congressional testimony. The NNSA has “three studies being ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) can only wait five to seven more years before beginning a potentially costly life-extension program on the megaton-class B83 gravity bomb, a senior agency official said Wednesday in a budget hearing. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) coaxed the ...

U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) formally declared initial operational capability of its new Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Enterprise Center (NEC) April 3, which will lay the groundwork for the command to lead efforts to revamp the Pentagon’s NC3 architecture for future operations. ...