Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationLos Alamos Workforce Will Level Off at About 20,000 By 2025, Triad Official Says
The recent unprecedented expansion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory workforce will continue for at least another year before leveling out at around 2,0000 employees, a senior lab official told […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Spending Will Top $75 Billion Per Year Over Next Decade, Mostly To Modernize Triad
Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHASC Vice Chair Says Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile ‘Incredibly Important’
The House version of the 2024 defense authorization act includes funding to develop a nuclear-tipped seal-launched cruise missile, and the program will make it into law despite the White House’s […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHII, Babcock International Sign Nuclear Decommissioning, Construction MOU
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] and U.K.-based defense contractor Babcock International signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on civilian- and naval-nuclear decommissioning, the companies said Monday. “That’s everything from power […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHoneywell Sells Its Stake in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Honeywell [HON] has sold its stake in the Fluor [FLR]-led joint venture that runs the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the company said last week. The […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Thirty Pits a Year by 2030 or Sooner; First Pit in 2024, Los Alamos Weapons Chief Says
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – By December 2024, the Los Alamos National Laboratory will produce a proof-of-concept pit for a new intercontinental ballistic missile warhead, a senior lab official said here […]
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Congress
House Committee Nixes plan to Repeal Binding Pit-Production Targets; Authorizes $24B for Nukes at DoE
Early Thursday, a House committee approved a bill to cap National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) spending in 2024 at about $23.8 billion and blocked a plan to repeal legal deadlines […]
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Air ForceSix Senators Co-Sponsor Bill to Provide Multi-Year Buy for LGM-35A Sentinel
Six Republican senators, including Deb Fischer (Neb.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) strategic forces panel, have introduced a bill to authorize multi-year procurement (MYP) authority […]
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CongressNuclear Weapon Programs Receive Modest Budget Boost in House Armed Services Defense Bill
A House committee’s first draft of an annual defense policy bill would increase funding for plutonium pit production, a controversial sea-launched cruise missile warhead and other nuclear weapons modernization programs. […]
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CongressHouse Strategic Forces Markup Could Again Halt Potential W76 Retirement, Limit Hruby’s Travel Until Reports Are In
Members of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee are proposing to withhold funding for retirement of the W76-2 warhead unless the military and National Nuclear Security Administration can prove […]
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