The House Appropriations on Tuesday approved a 2023 spending bill that included roughly the requested funding for Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs, one of which should get almost double the funding it will receive under the bill, a Republican Congressman said. The 2023 energy and water ...

House appropriators want to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with all the funding it requested in 2023 to build plutonium pit factories in New Mexico and South Carolina and fund a megaton-capable bomb the White House wanted to kill. The 2023 energy and water development ...

The House Appropriations Committee was scheduled Tuesday to vote on the first draft of the 2023 spending bill that funds civilian nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy and other agencies. Nuclear weapons programs at DoE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration ...

The U.S. Air Force on June 24 awarded BAE Systems an up to $12 billion contract for ICBM support for the Nuclear Weapon Center at Hill AFB, Utah through 2040. Under the cost-plus-award-fee contract for the Integration Support Contract (ISC) 2.0, BAE will serve as the lead systems integrator and ...

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has moved to restore funding in its version of the next defense policy bill for the continued development of a nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile, reversing the Navy’s proposal to cancel the program.  The panel adopted an amendment by voice vote ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would be authorized to spend $375 million more than requested on a plutonium pit factory at the Savannah River Site in fiscal year 2023, if a bill under debate in the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday becomes law. This development, among ...