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Business/Financial

Newport News-BWXT Team Lands $1.39B Deal for LANL Legacy Cleanup

Chris Schneidmiller

Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

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Newport News-BWXT Team Lands $1.39B Deal for LANL Legacy Cleanup

A team comprised of Stoller Newport News Nuclear and BWX Technologies [BWXT] has been awarded a $1.39 billion contract valued for cleanup of legacy wastes at the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This will be Stoller’s first major operational contract at the nuclear weapons lab, where BWXT is an old hand as a partner in current environmental remediation and management contractor Los Alamos National Security. “We are pleased that the Department of Energy has entrusted us…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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