Nuclear Modernization

Brandon Williams, a former one-term congressman from New York’s 22nd district, is President Trump’s pick to head the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration. Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee […]

Chris Wright, President-elect Trump’s pick for secretary of energy, said he would make it a priority to enrich uranium domestically Wednesday at his confirmation hearing. “We have lost our ability […]

Peter Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s intended nominee for Secretary of Defense, was questioned Tuesday by a Senate committee about his fitness for the role, including his knowledge of the U.S. nuclear […]

The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., may extend planned, Boeing [BA] sustainment work for the B61-12 to the B61-13, which the company is developing. […]

A bid protest by a Collins Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) team is looming for a nearly $3.5 billion Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) U.S. Navy award to […]

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 […]