Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationSTRATCOM Commander Says NNSA Must Resolve Pit Problems By Year’s End
OMAHA, Neb. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) may not be able to produce 80 nuclear-warhead cores a year by 2030 unless by the end of this year it […]
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BudgetUnified NDAA Calls On Pentagon to Accelerate LRSO and GBSD
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House could vote on Thursday, calls on the Pentagon to speed up modernization of the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic-missile fleet and air-launched cruise […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCongress Releases DoE Nuke Details in NDAA Ahead of Thursday Vote
The House could vote Thursday morning on a compromise defense spending bill that would allow the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to build a new low-yield nuclear warhead in fiscal […]
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Nuclear ModernizationReturning Nuke Weapons Lab to Non-Profit Structure Key in Big Contract Win, Incoming Management Partner Says
Excising the profit-seeking mindset from the Los Alamos National Laboratory was key to keeping the University of California on the storied nuclear-weapons lab’s management team, an executive with the massive […]
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Navy/USMC
Fluor Taking Over Naval Nuclear Laboratory Oct. 1 Under Huge Contracts
Fluor Marine Propulsion, of Arlington, Va., on Thursday won major nuclear-warship support contracts, worth up to a combined total of roughly $30 billion over 10 years, from the National Nuclear […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Hyten to Tour DoE Nuclear Site in South Carolina Thursday
Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command and effectively customer-in-chief for the nuclear weapons maintained by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), is scheduled on Thursday to […]
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA Could Take Tritium Mission Away From Savannah River Site
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is considering a radical restructuring of its nuclear weapons mission at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, including moving some work to another […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Battelle Hand Set to Take Reins at Nuclear Weapons Lab in November
Thomas Mason, former director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and current Battelle vice president, will become director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory on Nov. 1, after Triad National […]
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Budget
Senate Could Clear DoE to Start Developing New Nukes Without Congressional Clearance
The Department of Energy could be allowed to develop new nuclear warheads, or modify existing ones, without permission from Congress, after the Senate on Thursday defeated an amendment to its […]
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Nuclear ModernizationReed Vows NDAA Amendment to Keep Congress in Loop on New Warhead Development
Besides backing a new low-yield warhead and at least one more year of building a plutonium disposal plant, the Senate Armed Services Committee is pressing the National Nuclear Security Administration […]