Nuclear Modernization

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 […]

Below is a digest of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) performance evaluation summaries: the agency’s report cards for its big contracts, which explain how much management […]

With transition to a follow-on contract derailed for now, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) planned to extend the existing site-management contract for two of its main […]

COVID related supply chain disruptions and pandemic-driven changes in workforce behavior has stressed an already lean procurement staff at the Sandia National Laboratories, which like the rest of the civilian […]

The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday would shed no light on the timeline for transitioning the agency’s two main weapons production sites to new management, […]