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General Electric (NYSE: GE), Westinghouse and Framatome have secured $111.2M in financial assistance awards from the Department of Energy to develop accident tolerant fuels. ATFs are designed to increase the heat tolerance of nuclear reactors and ensure the safety, security, reliability and economy of nuclear fuel activities, DOE said Thursday. GE will …

Craig Reed, a 35-year GovCon veteran, has joined Serco Group’s North American subsidiary as a senior vice president and chief growth officer. He will report to Dave Dacquino, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc., and lead business development and corporate strategy efforts such as mergers and acquisitions, market intelligence and …

HPM Corp. has won a potential seven-year, $152M contract from the Department of Energy to help manage the safety and health of workers at a former nuclear production complex in Washington state. DOE said Monday the Kennewick, Wash.-based contractor will implement an occupational medical services program for the Hanford Site’s more than …

Siemens‘ U.S. federal arm will support the modernization of a steam plant at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as part of a potential 21-year, $555M energy savings performance contract from the Department of Energy. Siemens Government Technologies received a $45.8M initial task order to modernize a six-decade-old system that generates …

A new McAleese & Associates report says President Donald Trump appears to have expressed support to a defense budget request of $733B to $750B for fiscal year 2020 following his meeting with lawmakers and other government officials. Trump met with Defense Secretary James Mattis; National Security Adviser John Bolton; Senate Armed Services Committee …

Accenture Federal Services has secured a $2B contract with the Department of Energy‘s Office of the Chief Information Officer to provide business operations support services, G2Xchange ETC reported. More information will follow as it becomes available.  

Cray has signed a $146M contract with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to build a supercomputing system intended for large-scale simulations and data analyses. The Perlmutter supercomputer is designed to help NERSC researchers examine data sets from scientific experiments, the Energy Department said Tuesday. NERSC Director Sudip …

A joint venture of Fluor (NYSE: FLR), BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has secured a potential 30-month, $850M contract modification to continue decontaminating and decommissioning the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The modification results from an option exercised under the U.S. Department of Energy‘s authority, Fluor said Wednesday. …

A Fluor (NYSE: FLR) subsidiary has received a potential $2B contract extension to continue to manage and operate the country’s emergency crude oil supply for the Energy Department. DOE exercised a contract option for Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations to continue life extension construction and engineering work for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve …

Mark Whitney, formerly chief operating officer of AECOM’s (NYSE: ACM) nuclear and environment strategic business unit, has been named general manager and executive vice president of the unit. He succeeds the retiring Todd Wright to oversee the segment’s daily operations, business development efforts and strategic initiatives, AECOM said Monday. Whitney will also lead the …