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Nuclear Modernization

Department of Energy Warns of Possible Delay Delivering Nuclear Weapon Components

Thursday, February 6th, 2020

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Department of Energy Warns of Possible Delay Delivering Nuclear Weapon Components

The Honeywell [HON]-led company in charge of building the non-nuclear parts of nuclear weapons might have trouble delivering some of those components on time in 2020 and beyond, the Department of Energy said Thursday. Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies was already in the hotseat to find replacements for unsuitable capacitors that have delayed two ongoing nuclear weapon refurbishments before the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in the company’s 2019 performance review, revealed that “multiple weapon program components [at…

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Space

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