Nuclear Modernization
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Air ForceDepartment of Air Force Budgets $3.7 Billion for Sentinel in Fiscal 2025, Re-Examines Requirements Looking to Fiscal 2026
The Department of the Air Force’s $217.5 billion fiscal 2025 budget requests $3.7 billion for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A future ICBM–an amount even with last year’s ask, as the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA, Nuclear Weapons Fully Funded Through Compromise Bill
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) stands to see its roughly $24 billion budget request fulfilled under the compromise funding agreement reached by Congress this week. The bill includes just […]
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Air ForceSTRATCOM Head Wants Examination of Multiple Warhead ICBMs, Conventional Long-Range Strike Missile
The U.S. may want to “re-MIRV” its ICBMs and regain a conventional, more than 1,500 mile long-range strike weapon lost when the Air Force decommissioned its Boeing [BA] AGM-86C/D Conventional […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Earnings Rise in 2023, Fourth Quarter; DoE Award a ‘Wild Card’
Earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT] for 2023, which the maker of nuclear naval reactors and manager of nuclear weapons sites attributed Tuesday mostly to favorable adjustments on government contracts. […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Says Shroud Fly-Off Tests for Sentinel Mark ‘Significant Progress’
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 20 that several recent tests at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif., reflect “significant progress” in the engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) phase […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBill To Tax New Nuke Parts Slips Off Legislature’s Agenda As Session Winds Down
A bill that would have let New Mexico and Los Alamos County tax production of plutonium pits died quietly in the New Mexico legislature after a committee of jurisdiction declined […]
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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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Nuclear ModernizationSTRATCOM Examining Accelerating, Increasing LRSO Buy in Overall Look at Portfolio
As part of a look at the entire nuclear weapons portfolio, U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) is considering requirements for accelerating and increasing the buy of the U.S. Air Force AGM-181 […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Working Date: 30 Nuke Cores a Year By 2028, Los Alamos Director Says
The Los Alamos National Laboratory should be able to produce 30 nuclear weapon cores annually by 2028, the lab’s director said here Wednesday. “At the moment the plan we’re working […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman Takes $1.2 Billion Charge On B-21; Expects Losses Through Decade On LRIP Lots
After previously warning of a potential but not “probable” loss on the initial B-21 stealth bomber production contracts, Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday reported a $1.2 billion after-tax charge on […]