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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…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]