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Nuclear Modernization

Nuke Weapons Agency Says One Site Could Handle All Warhead Core Work, ‘If Needed’

Tuesday, March 10th, 2020

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Nuke Weapons Agency Says One Site Could Handle All Warhead Core Work, ‘If Needed’

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

Confirming what appeared intuitively obvious, the Department of Energy said Tuesday that Los Alamos National Laboratory will have to manufacture 80 nuclear weapon cores year by itself in 2030, if a planned facility at the Savannah River Site is not ready by then. Planned upgrades for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 plutonium facility “would provide the ability to produce a minimum of 30 pits per year, with surge efforts to produce 80 pits per year if needed,” the DoE's semiautonomous…

Congress

HASC Bill Would Allow Air Force To Buy More Than 267 F-15EXs

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill would allow the Air Force to buy more than 267 F-15EX fighters by Boeing [BA] and would extend the […]

Budget

Defense Bill Tries To Block Foreign Shipbuilding, Adds $1 Billion For Second DDG

The final version of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense authorization bill included two amendments pushed by Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) that restrict procuring Navy warships […]

Congress

Replacement Munitions May Not Be One-for-One; May Include New Weapons Chemistries, Wittman Says

As the Pentagon looks to refill inventories of weapons used in Iran and elsewhere, replacements may not be one for one but instead mark a new portfolio mix, according to […]

Congress

HASC Approves $1.15 Trillion FY ‘27 NDAA With ‘Right To Repair’ Reform

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has approved its $1.15 trillion version of the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with the panel moving to adopt a bipartisan […]