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Nuclear Modernization

New Livermore ‘Model Contract’ Could Help Shape Coming Competition for Pantex, NNSA Official Says

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

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New Livermore ‘Model Contract’ Could Help Shape Coming Competition for Pantex, NNSA Official Says

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will serve as a test-bed for some of the changes the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to make to the big site-management contracts of the future, an agency official said on Monday. At “the Livermore Field Office … we are actually right now executing what’s called a model contract,” James McConnell, the NNSA associate principal deputy administrator said during a panel presentation at sister publication the Exchange Monitor’s annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit. “We’re not…

Congress

House Authorizers Retain Battleship Funding, But Want Nuclear-Power Report

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) Thursday markup of the FY 2027 defense authorization bill rejected an amendment to cut funding for the new Trump-class battleship (BBG(X)), but did agree […]

Congress

HASC Rejects $150 Billion Topline Cut, Iran Cost Transparency Proposals At NDAA Markup

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Thursday rejected a Democrat-led proposal to cut the $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by $150 billion, as the […]

HASC Wants Pentagon List Of Critical F-35 Technical Data Rights And Estimate Of Cost To Buy Them For Repairs

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the Pentagon to inform the committee of critical technical data rights for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter and how much it would […]

Space

NRO Nominee: “We Have To Look Differently At Our Requirements”

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has said that it has launched more than 200 proliferated low Earth orbit satellites in the last two years to supplement the costly high-end systems […]