
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to award Converdyn a five-year, sole-source contract to convert triuranium octoxide into uranium hexafluoride as part of a new federal uranium stockpiling program. Converdyn, a Metropolis, Ill., partnership of Honeywell [HON] and General Atomics, operates the only U.S.-based conversion facility capable of turning triuranium octoxide into uranium hexafluoride, NNSA wrote in a sole-source justification it posted online Monday. NNSA’s partially redacted sole-source notice did not include the financial terms of the anticipated fixed-price…