Honeywell
An industrial conglomerate whose Federal Manufacturing & Technologies division manages the Kansas City National Security Campus for NNSA.
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Contracts & Procurement
Honeywell Says Spinoffs Shouldn’t Affect DOE Work
Honeywell’s decision to spin off three of its business units should not affect the company’s work with the Energy Department, a corporate spokesperson said Tuesday. Honeywell announced Tuesday it will spin off its Homes portfolio and ADI Global Distribution business into a separate home ventilation, security, and fire-protection company, and spin its Transportation Systems segment […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Honeywell Says Spinoffs Shouldn’t Affect DOE Work
Honeywell’s decision to spin off three of its business units should not affect the company’s work with the Energy Department, a corporate spokesperson said Tuesday. Honeywell announced Tuesday it will spin off its Homes portfolio and ADI Global Distribution business into a separate home ventilation, security, and fire-protection company, and spin its Transportation Systems segment […]
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National Laboratories
Wrap up: Unionized Sandia Workers Ratify New Labor Contract
More than 400 unionized workers at the Energy Department’s Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico ratified a new three-year labor pact Monday, the Atomic Projects and Production Workers, Metal Trades Council, said Tuesday. “The Collective Bargaining Agreement was accepted by a majority of the membership employed at Sandia National Labs who came out to vote […]
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National Laboratories
Unionized Sandia Workers Ratify New Labor Contract
More than 400 unionized workers at the Energy Department’s Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico ratified a new three-year labor pact Monday, the Atomic Projects and Production Workers, Metal Trades Council, said Tuesday. “The Collective Bargaining Agreement was accepted by a majority of the membership employed at Sandia National Labs who came out to vote […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Honeywell Says Spinoffs Shouldn’t Affect DOE Work
Honeywell’s decision to spin off three of its business units should not affect the company’s work with the Energy Department, a corporate spokesperson said Tuesday. Honeywell announced Tuesday it will spin off its Homes portfolio and ADI Global Distribution business into a separate home ventilation, security, and fire-protection company, and spin its Transportation Systems segment […]
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National Laboratories
Unionized Sandia Workers Still on the Job, Will Vote Monday on New Contract Offer
Several hundred unionized workers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., remained on the job this week after contract negotiations with the lab broke down, and are scheduled to vote on a new labor deal Monday. Sandia and the Atomic Projects and Productions Workers, Metal Trades Council (MTC), “met this week to address remaining issues […]
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National Laboratories
Sandia Workers Authorize Strike
More than 400 workers at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., voted to authorize a strike late Friday after members rejected the terms of a new contract offer from the Energy Department facility. While the 430 members of the Atomic Projects and Productions Workers, Metal Trades Council (MTC), authorized the strike ahead of the weekend, […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Jacobs Wrestles With Conflict of Interest in CH2M Buyout
Jacobs Engineering will be required to mitigate an apparent conflict of interest at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in its planned acquisition of CH2M Hill. Jacobs announced in June that it planned to purchase its fellow DOE contractor for $2.85 billion, with the deal set to close by the end of the year. Jacobs […]
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National Laboratories
DOE Not Budging on LANL Fee Caps; Bechtel, Others Attend Meetings on Contract
The Energy Department would not agree to increase the fees it plans to pay the next management and operations contractor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), despite repeated complaints that they are too low to attract quality bidders. The agency also confirmed this week that Bechtel, senior industry partner on the troubled LANL prime […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Incoming Manager Hails NNSS Mission as Transition Begins
Management at Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) did not receive a clear sense for why the venture secured the contract to manage and operate the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, incoming site manager Mark Martinez said Thursday. “They didn’t tell us why we won, they just told us that we won,” Martinez […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
New Manager Announces Incoming Nevada Site Leadership
Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS), the contractor newly chosen to run the Nevada National Security Site, has announced its incoming leadership team as it proceeds with transition activities at the facility. Two veterans of Department of Energy national laboratories will take the top spots at the Nevada facility: Mark Martinez is the incoming site […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
New Manager Announces Incoming Nevada Site Leadership
Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS), the contractor newly chosen to run the Nevada National Security Site, has announced its incoming leadership team as it proceeds with transition activities at the facility. The National Nuclear Security Administration in May awarded the new management and operations contract at the site to MSTS, a partnership of Honeywell […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Honeywell Reports Uptick in Net Sales in 2Q
Energy Department contractor Honeywell on Friday reported 3 percent organic sales growth in the second quarter of 2017, with total net sales reaching $10.1 billion, up slightly from $10 billion during the same quarter of last year. The company reported a 10 percent year-over-year increase in earnings and earnings per share of $1.80 in the […]
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Decommissioning
Bannister Federal Complex Demolition Plan Advances
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has issued a final contingent hazardous waste permit modification for the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, which was previously used for the manufacture of non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons. A 225-acre portion of the old complex is set to be transferred to a private developer and redeveloped for […]
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Decommissioning
Bannister Federal Complex Demolition Plan Advances
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has issued a final contingent hazardous waste permit modification for the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, a site that was previously used for the manufacture of non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons. A 225-acre portion of the old complex is set to be transferred to a private developer and […]
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Contracts & Procurement
NNSA Resumes Nevada Site Transition as Bid Protests Withdrawn
Two bid protests filed over the award of the management and operations contract for the Nevada National Security Site have been withdrawn, the National Nuclear Security Administration said Friday. Transition activities for the M&O contract awarded in May to Mission Support and Test Services LLC (MSTS) will therefore resume Aug. 1, according to the semiautonomous Department […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Nevada Site Incumbent Files M&O Bid Protest
The incumbent contractor at the Nevada National Security Site is the second failed bidder to file a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the new management and operations contract at the site. Nuclear Security & Technology, LLC, a variation on current prime National Security Technologies – a partnership between Northrop Grumman, AECOM, CH2M […]
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Contracts & Procurement
NVS3T Files Bid Protest for Nevada Site Contract
The bidding team that lost its initial contract award for management and operation of the Nevada National Security Site has filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office. Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp. (NVS3T), a partnership between Leidos, Fluor Federal Services, and consulting firm Longenecker & Associates, filed the protest on May […]
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Contracts & Procurement
SOC Wins Nevada Site Protective Force Services Contract
The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded SOC, LLC a contract for security protective force services at the Nevada National Security Site and the agency’s field office facilities, NNSA announced Wednesday. The contract is valued at roughly $202.9 million over 5 years, with all options, for security at the Nevada site; the Remote Sensing Laboratory […]
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National Laboratories
Past Performance Seals the Deal on Nevada Site Contract
A change in corporate parents was enough to quickly undo the 2016 award for the management and operations contract for the Nevada National Security Site. The primary issue was the corresponding shift in past performance portfolios, an industry source told NS&D Monitor this week in the wake of the second and presumably final contract award […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
NNSA Awards Nevada Site M&O Contract
The National Nuclear Security Administration has for a second time awarded the management and operations contract for its Nevada National Security Site – this time to Mission Support and Test Services LLC (MSTS), a partnership of Honeywell International, Jacobs Engineering Group, and Stoller Newport News Nuclear. The contract, valued at $5 billion over 10 years […]
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National Laboratories
Wrap Up: NTESS Marks First Week on the Job at Sandia
New leadership is wrapping up its first week on the job at the Sandia National Laboratories, following a transition that removed former contractor Lockheed Martin from its management position. The National Nuclear Security Administration last December awarded the management and operations contract to National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, a subsidiary of Honeywell International. The deal […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Lockheed Reports $11.1B in 1Q Net Sales
Lockheed Martin Corp. on Tuesday announced net sales of $11.1 billion and net earnings from continuing operations of $763 million for the first quarter of 2017. Net sales increased from $10.4 billion in the same three-month period of 2016, while year-over-year net earnings fell from $806 million. Lockheed subsidiary Sandia Corp., with only a few […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Wrap Up: Honeywell Sales Flat, Earnings Up
Department of Energy contractor Honeywell said Friday its first-quarter 2017 sales were almost equal to revenue from the same period one year ago, but both earnings per share and free cash flow spiked. The industrial company brought in $9.49 billion in sales in its latest reporting period, down very slightly from $9.52 billion in the […]
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National Laboratories
Perry Lauds DOE, National Labs
New Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Friday said his alma mater’s bid for management of the Sandia National Laboratories helped teach him the value of the agency he once wanted to kill and now leads. Perry made light of his famous “oops” moment during a 2011 presidential debate in which he said he would eliminate three federal […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
DOE Contractors Wait for Policy Guidance as Trump Administration Slowly Forms
The absence of senior leadership at the Trump administration’s Cabinet agencies threatens to leave contractors without clear policy direction on matters including the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons and cleanup complexes, executives said Tuesday. There is no imminent end in sight to this dilemma, they acknowledged. Panelists at the ExchangeMonitor’s Nuclear Deterrence Summit spoke two […]
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National Laboratories
Sandia Director, Bechtel Exec Listed Among Top 3 Most Powerful Female Engineers
Sandia National Laboratories Director Jill Hruby nearly topped Business Insider’s list this week of the 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017 in the U.S. technology sector. Hruby came in at No. 2, behind only Peggy Johnson, executive vice president for business development at Microsoft. Barbara Rusinko, a president at major Department of Energy contractor […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Wrap Up: New Mexico Joint Venture to Support Sandia M&O Contract
A joint venture consisting of several New Mexico-headquartered small businesses will support the recently awarded management and operations contract for the Sandia National Laboratories, contractor Sandia Technical Partners (STP) announced Tuesday. The new firm was formed “to enhance small business participation” in the contract, which the National Nuclear Security Administration in December awarded to National […]
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Contracts & Procurement
New Mexico Joint Venture to Support Sandia M&O Contract
A joint venture consisting of several New Mexico-headquartered small businesses will support the recently awarded management and operations contract for the Sandia National Laboratories, contractor Sandia Technical Partners (STP) announced Tuesday. The new firm was formed “to enhance small business participation” in the contract, which the National Nuclear Security Administration in December awarded to National […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Wrap Up: Kansas City Site Celebrates 2016 Safety Record
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus in Missouri is marking 2016 as its “best year ever” in safety performance. The NNSA site that produces non-nuclear components used in nuclear weapons said in an emailed statement that despite a 20 percent increase in new employees throughout the year, safety incidents fell by […]






