
The National Nuclear Security Administration planned to start work on a competition for a pair of new contracts to manage its main nuclear-weapon sites in 2023 and 2024, the agency said Monday. In the meantime, Oct. 1 marked the official start of big-money extensions to Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), the Bechtel National-led incumbent at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, the central nuclear-weapon service depot, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.,…