Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationSavannah River Site to be Transferred to NNSA Control by 2025, DoE Confirms
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will take over the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by 2025, and the transition has started, the Department of Energy confirmed Tuesday. The […]
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Nuclear ModernizationWork on Competition For New Nuke Production Contracts Starting in 2023-24, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration planned to start work on a competition for a pair of new contracts to manage its main nuclear-weapon sites in 2023 and 2024, the agency […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore Lab Director Budil Arrested For Driving Under the Influence, Speeding
Kimberly Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), admitted last week to all hands at the California nuclear-weapons design lab that she had been arrested for driving under […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCOVID-19 Created More Than a Year’s Worth of Delays for Pit Production at Los Alamos, Lab Said
Due primarily to COVID-19, Los Alamos National Laboratory believed it could take a year longer than expected for the the lab to casting 10 plutonium pits annually in New Mexico, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Plans To Finalize New Cybersecurity Directive in April, Agency Tells GAO
Organizations within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) bureaucracy are reviewing a draft cybersecurity directive the agency wrote after a third-party review, the weapons steward told the Government Accountability Office […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSentinel ICBM is ‘Real,’ Northrop Exec Says After Company Produces First Inert Stages
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Sentinel, the next nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile, is a “real program,” a senior executive with the rocket’s prime contractor said here Wednesday at an industry conference. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationMass Production of Refurbished Nuclear Weapons Could Begin Soon, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) still awaits the all-clear from the Pentagon to begin mass refurbishment of its arsenal of B61 gravity bombs and W88 submarine-launched ballistic missile warheads, […]
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Nuclear programs Especially Susceptible To Supply Chain Crunch, STRATCOM Nominee Says
Ongoing problems moving goods from one place to another has affected schedules across the Department of Defense and nuclear-weapon programs have been hit especially hard, the nominee to lead U.S. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDespite Russia, Congress, Biden Admin Still Doesn’t Want SLCM-N, Pentagon Official Says
Though some in the U.S. government feel Russia will rely increasingly on non-conventional and nuclear arms, including tactical nuclear weapons, that does not make a case for continuing development of […]
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CongressReed Wants To Pass Senate NDAA in September; Bill Needs Reconciling With House Version
The Senate may not pass its big defense policy bill before voters decide who controls Congress in November’s midterm elections, the head of the chamber’s Armed Services Committee said Wednesday […]
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