
With transition to a follow-on contract derailed for now, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) planned to extend the existing site-management contract for two of its main nuclear-weapons production sites for up to a year, people familiar with the plans said this week. Incumbent Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), a team led by Bechtel National, would remain on the job at least through October under the contract extension mulled by the NNSA, these people said. Options could stretch…