Nuclear Modernization

In a confirmation hearing Tuesday morning, the Biden administration’s nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) weapons programs from headquarters in Washington pledged his support for the agency’s […]

As the nuclear-weapons production complex begins a shift into overdrive, non-essential personnel at the Pantex site were asked to delay their arrival starting with Monday’s graveyard shift after a late-season […]

A new 20,000-square-foot high-explosives fabrication facility at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Pantex Plant should be up and running by January 2024. Pantex broke ground on the new Advanced […]

A congressionally chartered commission about U.S. strategic posture is stacked with nuclear-savvy appointees, including the woman who led the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) during most of the Donald Trump […]

After idling for half the 2022 fiscal year at last year’s budget level, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would get some $26.65 billion to see it through Sept. 30, […]

There is not enough money in the world for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to spend its way to making 80 plutonium pits a year by 2030, the general […]

Around 2024, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) expects to take delivery of a pair of new AW139 helicopters, joining the Air Force in swapping a rotary […]

Citing a lack of transparency on the agency’s part, a losing bidder for a major nuclear-weapon sites management contract cried foul in January when the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear […]

Depending on when the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) can “really” manufacture new plutonium pits, and depending on what “the real capacity” to make pits is, the Navy might be […]

A recent Government Accountability Office report confirms what most observers already assumed — the COVID-19 pandemic prompted much of the federal workforce at the Department of Energy and elsewhere to […]