Nuclear Modernization

BWX Technologies [BWXT] brought in $542 million in first-quarter 2020 revenue, 30% more than the $416 million generated during the first three months of 2019. Net income for the period ended […]

The Trump administration on Monday nominated Marshall Billingslea, the former Treasury Department antiterrorism official nominally in charge of nuclear arms control negotiations, as undersecretary of state for arms control and […]

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy nuclear-weapon site closest to a major metropolitan area, is preparing for another month of stay-at-home orders in surrounding Alameda County, Calif., […]

The Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are developing a plan to fit the company into the Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) program moving forward, even as the service has selected […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration might lose political support in Congress if the New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia lapses, the immediate past head of the semi-autonomous nuclear […]

Two key nuclear delivery systems, the Long Range Standoff Weapon cruise missile and the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile should be ready on time — the cruise […]

The Pantex Plant assembled the “first production capability unit” of the W88 Alt-370 submarine-launched warhead, a precursor to the first production unit intended to prove the entire warhead design is […]

The Department of State on Friday framed deployment of a low-yield warhead aboard U.S. submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles as a means of preventing a nuclear arms race. The agency’s 10-page, […]

Germany’s Federal Ministry for Defence wants the country to buy American for the future of the country’s nuclear-sharing mission with the U.S., urging the legislature to approve the purchase of […]

Not much sooner than Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette provided the guidance for doing so, the agency’s semi-autonomous nuclear-weapons agency added language to prime contracts enabling operators of nuclear weapons sites […]