Nuclear Modernization
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Air ForceNNSA Delivering Rehabbed B61 Bombs to Air Force for F-35 Nuke Mission
Deliveries of the B61-12 nuclear bomb that eventually will be carried by the Air Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighter are underway, the National Nuclear Security Administration told sister publication Exchange […]
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Nuclear ModernizationInspection Turns Up Safety System Concerns at Sandia’s Annular Core Reactor in New Mexico
National Technology and Engineering Solutions has established adequate safety systems management programs at Sandia National Laboratories, but a new watchdog report questions whether those programs can ensure safe nuclear operations […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNo layoffs When NNSA Takes Over Savannah River In 2024
No one will lose their jobs when the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) assumes management of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina from the Department of Energy’s Office of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Employee Working on W88 Bypassed Computer Restrictions by Using Sub’s Email, Office
A federal employee at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) W88 Alteration 370 Federal Program Office, whose computer access was restricted, used a subcontractor’s email for five years to bypass […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA 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 ModernizationPossible 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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BudgetEnergy 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/USMCNo 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 ForceLatest 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 ModernizationNNSA 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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