Nuclear Modernization

LIVERMORE, Calif. — The W80-4 warhead’s final design reviews are complete and its first production unit is still on track for fiscal year 2027, a senior official at the Lawrence […]

Earnings fell at Amentum [AMTM] in fiscal 2024, although the company, which consolidated this summer with the government contracting and cyber wings of Jacobs, sees better days ahead with new […]

Marvin Adams, deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration, told sister publication Exchange Monitor Friday that the U.S. does not need to critically test, even in […]

As the White House prepares to change hands and parties next month, the U.S. Air Force is continuing its acquisition strategy review of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel future […]

The federal government last week asked a judge to vacate a judgment favoring environmentalists in a plutonium pit lawsuit and stop the case from going to an appeals court. The […]

When it comes to overseeing billions of dollars’ worth of federal contracts, the Department of Energy, and its two nuclear weapons complex offices, still has work to do, a congressional […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration, in asking a court to deny an activist’s amicus brief in an ongoing lawsuit, said it conducted a review of producing warhead cores in New […]

The U.S. Air Force may need to fund 1,600 to 2,000 miles of utility corridors in 2026 through 2029 to support the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel in the missile […]

The U.S. Space Force tested the intercontinental ballistic missile’s ability to strike targets with multiple warheads in a Minuteman III launch Tuesday at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. According to […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Tuesday published a vision for the U.S. nuclear-weapons production complex that could exist in the decades when the last nuclear-arms-control treaty lapses and […]