Nuclear Modernization
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BudgetGOP Lawmakers File Amendments to Provide Funds for Proposed Sea-Launched Nukes in DoE Budget
With the full House set to vote next week on a multi-bill spending package that would keep the civilian nuclear weapons budget about flat at about $20 billion, some Republican […]
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BudgetHouse Approps Committee’s Civil Nuke Budget Holds Line on Major Weapons Programs
The House Appropriations Committee last Friday approved a 2022 civilian nuclear weapons budget that for now holds the line on modernizing the Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons production complex, including proposed […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Nuke Agency Finishes First Copy of Refurbed Submarine Warhead; Deliveries Sked’d for 2022
The National Nuclear Security Administration said Tuesday it completed the first production unit of a refurbished submarine-launched nuclear warhead, setting the stage for a mass-production run that could begin early […]
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Congress
DOE Nuke Agency Would Get Requested Weapons Funding in Draft House Budget Bill; GOP Says ‘Short Changes’
Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs would get almost exactly the funding they requested for fiscal year 2022, if the House’s first draft of the Department of Energy’s budget bill […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Awards Northrop Grumman Contract for Up to $3.9 Billion for ICBM Ground Subsystems
The U.S. Air Force on July 7 awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a contract that could be worth nearly $3.9 billion for ground subsystems support for the Boeing [BA] Minuteman III […]
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Nuclear ModernizationU.S. Air Force Awards Raytheon $2 Billion EMD Contract for LRSO
The U.S. Air Force on July 1 awarded Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] missiles and defense division in Tucson, Ariz. a $2 billion cost plus contract with performance incentives for the engineering […]
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Nuclear ModernizationUK Nuclear Complex Management Renationalized
The United Kingdom was scheduled to renationalize management of its nuclear weapons production complex Thursday after almost 30 years of letting industry hold the reins. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) […]
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Nuclear ModernizationRein in Nuke Spending ‘Til January, Keep GBSD, Avoid ‘Big Leap’ on LRSO, Armed Service Chair Says
Nuclear weapons spending should be kept at a minimum until the White House finishes a review of the arsenal in January, but the Air Force’s next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile program […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDOE Approves Cost Range for S.C. Nuke Core Factory: $6.9B-$11.1B
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration on Monday formalized its choice to build the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility pit factory out of the remains of the partially […]
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Nuclear Modernization‘Challenging’ to get 30 Pits a Year at Los Alamos in 2026, Director Says
The proof-of-concept plutonium pit for the next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile warhead is still on the slate for fiscal year 2023, but cranking out 30 copies annually just three years after […]
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