Questionable “competence” within Air Force procurement ranks helped turn a competition to build a fleet of next-generation nuclear missiles into a one-horse race, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday. Bids to build and deploy the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) dinged the National Nuclear Security Administration recently for not providing 10 years’ worth of cost forecasts in an annual report to Congress on defense nuclear spending. The semiautonomous Department of Energy agency by law must write a ...

Adm. James Caldwell, the top nuclear-navy man, had reassuring words for the nuclear shipbuilding industry and its suppliers on Thursday during a banquet speech at the Nuclear Naval Submarine League’s annual symposium. “I … want you to know that contrary to what you might read or hear, & ...

Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said Thursday she would give serious thought to remaining at her post, if President Trump wins a second term in office and wants her on the job. “If the president so chooses to seek my advice and ...

BWX Technologies [BWXT], trumpeting strong third-quarters results Tuesday, remained non-committal about building more common missile compartment tubes for U.S. naval submarines, beyond those the company is already under contract to make by 2021. After announcing in 2018 that it had botched welds on ...

A backup defense authorization act unveiled this week would authorize $16.5 billion in Department of Energy nuclear-weapon spending for 2020, and explicitly authorize new program starts to bolster nuclear warhead and naval fuel efforts. Armed Services Committee Chair James Inhofe (R-Okla) lifted ...