Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA Investigating Loss of Criticality Controls at Y-12 Uranium Processing Facility
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Enterprise Assessments is investigating an incident at the Y-12 National Security Complex in which a machine used to shape uranium was dismantled […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Possible Suitors For Pantex M&O Pact Emerge
Jacobs Solutions [J], Huntington Ingalls [HII], BWX Technologies [BWXT] and others are among those seeking the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decade-spanning, $30 billion contract to manage the agency’s nuclear-weapons […]
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Budget
Energy Appropriator Hopes to Avoid Government Shutdown
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) Tuesday prodded hundreds of people here for the National Cleanup Workshop to urge their congressional representatives to avoid a federal government shutdown but stopped short of […]
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Navy/USMC
No Proof NNSA Ignored Technical Concerns About W88 Upgrades, Inspector General Says
Federal officials did not inappropriately block contractors from investigating concerns about a program to refurbish one of the Navy’s two nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy’s inspector general wrote in […]
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Air Force
Latest Unarmed Minuteman III Test One of More Than 300 So Far, AFGSC Says
U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command and the U.S. Space Force’s 30th Space Launch Delta Guardians launched an unarmed Boeing [BA] Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with three […]
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA Mismanaged Subcritical Explosive Testing Programs, GAO Finds
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) mismanaged development of two machines used to measure the explosive power of nuclear weapons, leading to program delays and cost overruns, the Government Accountability […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Livermore’s Bauer To Lead New ‘Blueprint’ To Revamp NNSA Enterprise
Linda Bauer, former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory deputy director, will lead a new effort to write a “blueprint” for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) production and science and technology […]
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA Nuke Modernization Blows Beyond Cost and Schedule Estimates, GAO Finds
Major National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) projects to modernize nuclear-weapons production infrastructure shot $2 billion past estimated budgets and are collectively overdue by nearly a decade, according to a recent […]
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Business/Financial
Earnings and Revenue Rise at Parsons In Second Quarter
Revenue and earnings rose in the second quarter at Parsons Corp. [PSN], Centreville, Va., buoyed year-over-year by the start of some federal contract work and the 2022 acquisition of cyber […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Carr Is New CEO at Energy Department’s South Carolina Nuclear Weapon Site
The Fluor [FLR]-led operations contractor at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina promoted Dennis Carr to CEO following Stuart MacVean’s retirement on Thursday, a company spokesperson […]