Tag Archives: National Nuclear Security Administration

The Department of Energy is looking for potential sources of environmental remediation services at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to support the National Nuclear Security Administration's site cleanup and modernization programs. 

The National Nuclear Security Administration has indicated its intent to launch a full and open competition for a 10-year, $28B contract for management and operating support to two nuclear weapons facilities in Texas and  Tennessee.

The Department of Defense has awarded BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), X-energy and Westinghouse's government services business separate two-year contracts worth potentially $39.8M combined to design a mobile nuclear reactor model.

Philip Breidenbach, former chief engineer of Savannah River Remediation, has been appointed president and project manager of the Amentum-led liquid waste management contractor supporting the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential three-year, $108.3M contract from the U.S. Air Force to conduct technology maturation and risk reduction efforts to support the development of a reentry vehicle for the W87-1 nuclear warhead.

Cray has secured a potential $600M contract from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to build and deliver a supercomputing platform to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California by late 2022. DOE said Tuesday researchers will use the "El Capitan" exascale computer to study methods for nuclear weapons stockpile maintenance, as well as conduct data-heavy simulations and calculations.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $127.6M contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to obtain materials needed to consolidate and replace B61 bomb variants in the country’s nuclear stockpile. The modification would initiate an an undefinitized contract action for the first two lots of long lead items for the …

BWX Technologies‘ (NYSE: BWXT) Nuclear Fuel Services subsidiary has received a $505M contract to convert 20.2 metric tons of highly enriched uranium into a low enriched form that can be used in national defense efforts or as fuel for commercial nuclear reactors. The HEU downblending project is scheduled to commence in early …

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 …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2018 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will provide a supercomputer to the Energy Department to support the science, energy and national security modeling and simulation workloads of the National Nuclear Security Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. HPE said Monday the ARM-based Astra supercomputer will work to …