Nuclear Modernization

With delays piling up for its two planned plutonium pit factories, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) already believes it will have to exceed the military’s minimum annual order for […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) changed the design for the nuclear core of a planned intercontinental ballistic missile warhead late last year, a senior agency official said Tuesday. Altering […]

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will serve as a test-bed for some of the changes the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to make to the big site-management contracts of […]

Two long standing government bosses, Jeffrey Allison and Randall Hendrickson, lead a joint team working out details of transferring responsibility for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South […]

Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) will continue as the chair and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee in the 118th Congress, the committee […]

China has surpassed the U.S. in its number of land-based fixed and mobile launchers for intercontinental continental ballistic missiles, a group of Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday. Reps. Mike Rogers […]

Congressional leaders asked the Department of Energy to turn over by Feb. 16 its communications with three national labs reportedly targeted in January by Russian hackers. The Lawrence Livermore National […]

There will be some churn in the 118th Congress among staff on the House Armed Services Committee, which sets policy and spending limits for Department of Energy nuclear-weapons programs, according […]

The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill AFB, Utah has awarded Boeing [BA] an up to $1.6 billion sole-source contract through Feb. 1, 2039 for engineering services to support […]

The Los Alamos National Laboratory will install by 2030 the equipment needed to make at least 30 plutonium pits annually, according to a Jan. 19 memo from the deputy secretary […]