A group of Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Biden to use the imminent Nuclear Posture Review as an opportunity to cut two nuclear modernization programs approved during the Trump administration, the deployment of the new W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched warhead and development of a ...
Nuclear Modernization
Lockheed Martin [LMT] is to receive a five-year U.S. Air Force contract to conduct any needed repairs of Weapon System Control Console (WSCC) line replaceable units for the Boeing [BA] Minuteman III ICBMs. The sole source contract from the Air Force Sustainment Center at Hill AFB, Utah is to follow ...
Civilian reactors in Tennessee notionally will sharply increase their output of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons by the fall of 2024 to help the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) produce its desired 2,800 grams of tritium annually during the government fiscal year that begins around ...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to address a perceived conflict of interest, raised by a Bechtel National-led team, about the agency’s November award of a potentially decade-long sites-management contract to a Fluor [FLR]-led team, according to a letter from the ...
The top Republicans on the Senate and House Armed Services Committees urged the Biden administration on Thursday against cutting recently approved nuclear modernization efforts as part of its upcoming Nuclear Posture Review. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the ranking ...
The Sandia National Laboratories have temporarily dropped a requirement that all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, leaving only a pair of National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-owned sites that require vaccination. While Sandia’s mandate is paused, “the discipline process for ...