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Possible Suitors For Pantex M&O Pact Emerge

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

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Possible Suitors For Pantex M&O Pact Emerge

Jacobs Solutions [J], Huntington Ingalls [HII], BWX Technologies [BWXT] and others are among those seeking the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decade-spanning, $30 billion contract to manage the agency’s nuclear-weapons service center in Texas. Pantex and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., are currently managed for NNSA by Consolidated Nuclear Security, a Bechtel National-led team. The NNSA is splitting up management of the sites again and planned to award a standalone Pantex contract in 2024 and a…

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