Nuclear Modernization

In the latest mega-extension for a nuclear-weapons site-management contractor, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) locked in a Honeywell [HON]-led team for five more years at the Nevada National Security […]

While it has fixed the bad welds that plagued the program last decade, BWX Technologies [BXWT], Lynchburg, Va., is still having trouble manufacturing common missile compartment tubes for Columbia-, Virginia– […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) this week split its two headquarters-based procurement offices into three, the head of the agency said. Effective Monday, the agency’s Washington-based procurement bureaucracy comprises: […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday released all the unclassified details of its fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, showing lawmakers in that chamber disagree with their House […]

Less than a month remains for anyone interested in selling domestic uranium to the government for a congressionally directed reserve to submit their bids to the National Nuclear Security Administration […]

Several nuclear weapons issues, touching on life extension programs, research prohibitions and more, could come up for debate on the House floor next week when lawmakers return to Washington. After […]

The House Appropriations on Tuesday approved a 2023 spending bill that included roughly the requested funding for Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs, one of which should get almost double […]

House appropriators want to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with all the funding it requested in 2023 to build plutonium pit factories in New Mexico and South Carolina […]

The House Appropriations Committee was scheduled Tuesday to vote on the first draft of the 2023 spending bill that funds civilian nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy and […]

The U.S. Air Force on June 24 awarded BAE Systems an up to $12 billion contract for ICBM support for the Nuclear Weapon Center at Hill AFB, Utah through 2040. […]