National Laboratories

The deadline to tender bids to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory came and went this week without any prospective offerors besides major universities identifying themselves. Known to be in the hunt are the University of California, the University of Texas, and Texas A&M University. The publicly funded universities cannot hide their interest in the […]

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Enterprise Assessments said it will investigate an incident in a Los Alamos National Lab facility that resulted in a “near miss to a fatality.” The DOE watchdog office decided to investigate lab prime contractor Los Alamos National Security (LANS) following a September incident in which “a LANS worker […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Enterprise Assessments will investigate an incident in a Los Alamos National Lab facility that resulted in a “near miss to a fatality,” the watchdog office said recently. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Enterprise Assessment office decided to investigate lab prime contractor Los Alamos National Security (LANS) following a September […]

While some details still need to be worked out, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved a five-year extension for Battelle Energy Alliance to continue as the management and operations contractor for Idaho National Laboratory through Sept. 30, 2024. Battelle Energy Alliance LLC also has BWX Technologies, AECOM and the Electric Power Research Institute as integrated […]

The deadline to tender bids to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory came and went yesterday without any prospective offerors besides major universities identifying themselves. Known to be in the hunt are the University of California, the University of Texas and Texas A&M University. The publicly funded universities cannot hide their interest in the contract, […]

Peggy McCullough, who Bechtel announced Friday would be leaving her post as project director at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state, will be replacing John Howanitz as head of the company’s Nuclear Security, and Operations business based in Virginia. Bechtel said Friday that Brian Reilly, who like McCullough […]

The Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico has received 118 shipments of transuranic waste since reopening to shipments in April, officials said Wednesday night at the WIPP Town Hall in Carlsbad. WIPP is now averaging between five and six shipments per week from other DOE sites, according to Bruce Covert, president and […]

Los Alamos National Security (LANS), the prime contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, won 84 percent of its potential $10.1 million environmental management award fee in the latest contract scorecard from the Department of Energy. That was good for almost $8.46 million in available fees, DOE said Tuesday. The award fee covers […]

The Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico reported 25 breaches of its state hazardous waste facility permit during fiscal 2017, according to a recent filing with the New Mexico Environment Department. The 25 infractions in the budget year ended Sept. 30 are far less than noted in preceding years, when the annual […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration believes manufacturing plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina might be cheaper than keeping the work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The semiautonomous Department of Energy agency settled on Savannah River after ruling out the Idaho National Laboratory as part of a congressionally […]

Bids on the next management and operations contract for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory are due in a matter of days. Texas A&M University is in the hunt, but even at the 11th hour, the university refuses to provide any details about the role it hopes to play at the storied nuclear […]

A former Sandia National Laboratories employee who allegedly swindled more than $2 million from the federal government pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. It was part of a plea bargain that Carla Sena, a former contracting official at the Albuquerque, N.M.-based lab, agreed to with the […]

A former Sandia National Laboratories employee who allegedly swindled more than $2 million from the federal government pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. It was part of a plea bargain that Carla Sena, a former contracting official at the Albuquerque, N.M.-based lab, agreed to with the […]

Los Alamos National Security (LANS), the prime contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, won 84 percent of its potential $10.1 million environmental management award fee in the latest contract scorecard from the Department of Energy. That was good for almost $8.46 million in available fees, DOE said Tuesday. The award fee covers […]

The Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico reported 25 breaches of its state hazardous waste facility permit during fiscal 2017, according to a recent filing with the New Mexico Environment Department. The 25 infractions in the budget year ended Sept. 30 are far less than noted in preceding years, when the annual […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed Monday it is evaluating whether it can manufacture plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina instead of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as currently planned. The semiautonomous Department of Energy agency settled on Savannah River after ruling out the Idaho National Laboratory as […]

The Uranium Processing Facility in Tennessee, a centrifuge in Texas, and the national heavy water inventory are among the management challenges the Department of Energy’s Inspector General’s Office foresees for the agency in fiscal 2018, according to a Nov. 27 special report. The Inspector General’s (IG) Office fretted that DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) […]

Terry Wallace will become director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory effective Jan. 1, replacing Charles McMillan, the lab announced Tuesday. Wallace is a stopgap director who will serve only about nine months at the helm Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) before a new management contractor — and a new director — steps in. That […]

The University of Texas’ (UT) Board of Regents on Monday narrowly approved a bid on a potentially decade-long contract to manage the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The board voted 4-3 in favor of the motion, which will pair the university with at least one corporate partner as part of a limited liability […]

AECOM does not plan to be part of the next Los Alamos National Laboratory management team, a source said Thursday. The Los Angeles-based engineering services giant is one of the junior industry partners on Los Alamos National Security (LANS): the incumbent lab prime now managing the the roughly 70-year-old nuclear-weapons facility under a contract worth […]

The Honeywell-led National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) was the lowest bidder and the most technically qualified of four teams that competed for a 10-year, $2.5-billion-plus contract to manage the Sandia National Laboratories last year, according to a newly released procurement document. The details come from a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) source […]

The Honeywell-led National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) was the lowest bidder and the most technically qualified of four teams that competed for a 10-year, $2.5-billion-plus contract to manage the Sandia National Laboratories last year, according to a newly released procurement document. The details come from a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) source […]

Terry Wallace will become director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory effective Jan. 1, replacing Charles McMillan, the lab announced Tuesday. Wallace is a stop-gap director who will serve only about nine months at the helm Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) before a new management contractor — and a new director — steps in. That […]

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality said Tuesday that it is seeking comment on a revised air quality permit for the Idaho National Laboratory. The proposed air quality permit to construct (PTC) will govern emissions from the sprawling national laboratory overseen by the Department of Energy. Chiefly, this permit consolidates some existing air permits for […]

The University of Texas’ board of regents narrowly approved a bid Monday on a potentially decade-long contract to manage the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The University of Texas’ (UT) board of regents voted 4-3 in favor of the motion, which will pair the university with at least one corporate partner as part […]

A former contracting official at the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico swindled the government out of more than $2 million by steering a lab contract to a moving company she founded, according to an indictment filed this week with the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. In 2010, while employed at the Department of Energy […]

The company that has run the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a decade will split up, with members of the incumbent manager set to pursue separate bids to run the nuclear weapons lab for the next 10 years, a University of California official said Wednesday. The University of California (UC) managed the Los Alamos National […]

UT Still in Hunt for Next LANL Management Contract The University of Texas has not suspended work on its bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a spokesperson for the Austin-based institution said. “Bid preparation is in progress and will be reviewed by the Board of Regents later this month,” a University of […]

The massive defense authorization bill now on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk would make it harder for the Department of Energy to move plutonium pit production out of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico — something the agency has not actually proposed doing. However, that the Department of Energy (DOE) has […]

BWX Technologies said Thursday that it has selected Kenneth Camplin as the new president of the company’s Nuclear Services Group, a role Camplin has filled on an acting basis since last December. Camplin, previously chief business development officer for BWXT, assumed the helm of the Nuclear Service Group after Bill Fox left BWXT to pursue […]