Nevada National Security Site

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) upheld the Department of Energy’s decision to oust the incumbent security services contractor at the Nevada National Security Site after it was underbid by a competitor. The GAO handed down the ruling on Sept. 21, but only posted a redacted copy of its decision Thursday. In May, DOE awarded SOC LLC […]

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 […]

The leaders of site advisory boards for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management complex will discuss waste cleanup with DOE officials, and members of the public, on Oct. 18-19 in Kennewick, Wash. The chairs and vice-chairs of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) local boards meet twice per year to get updates […]

Calvin Biesecker Defense Daily Northrop Grumman late Tuesday afternoon announced a number of forthcoming leadership changes, including the elevation of Kathy Warden to the position of president. Wes Bush, Northrop Grumman’s chairman and CEO, is also president. Warden, who is currently in charge of the company’s Mission Systems Sector, will become president and chief operating […]

The National Academies will, over the next year, evaluate technology development activities within the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM). The study, led by the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is being conducted at the request of DOE EM. It has two primary purposes: reviewing […]

The Energy Department has extinguished wildfires that were burning at the Nevada National Security Site, the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration wrote in a social media post Tuesday. “NNSS firefighters successfully extinguished a lightning-generated fire which began on Aug. 24,” reads a post on the Nevada National Security Site’s Facebook page. “The NNSS fire […]

The Energy Department said Friday it is extinguishing fires in the west-central corner of the remote Nevada National Security Site. The blaze, which burned cheat grass and sage grass in an estimated 5,000-acre area, did not affect any structures, facilities, or radiologically contaminated spots at the former nuclear weapon-testing site, DOE said in a press release […]

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 […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries on Thursday reported revenue of $1.86 billion in the second quarter of 2017, up by 9.3 percent from the $1.7 billion it reported during the same period last year. The shipbuilder collected $237 million in operating income – up from $217 million last year – and $186 million in cash from operations, […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries on Thursday reported revenue of $1.86 billion in the second quarter of 2017, up by 9.3 percent from the $1.7 billion it reported during the same period last year. The shipbuilder collected $237 million in operating income – up from $217 million last year – and $186 million in cash from operations, […]

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 […]

Northrop Grumman on Wednesday reported increases in both revenue and net earnings for the second quarter of 2017. Sales landed at $6.4 billion in sales in the quarter, up by 6 percent from $6 billion during the same quarter of last year.  The defense-contracting giant also brought in earnings of $552 million, up by 7 percent from […]

Northrop Grumman on Wednesday reported increases in both revenue and net earnings for the second quarter of 2017. Sales landed at $6.4 billion in sales in the quarter, up by 6 percent from $6 billion during the same quarter of last year.  The defense-contracting giant also brought in earnings of $552 million, up by 7 percent from […]

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 […]

Northrop Grumman is scheduled to discuss its second-quarter 2017 earnings during a webcast Wednesday, just weeks after dropping a protest over the recent contract award for management of the Energy Department’s Nevada National Security Site. The defense contractor in April reported $640 million in first-quarter net income and earnings per share of $3.63, up year […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. on Tuesday announced net sales of $12.7 billion and net earnings from continuing operations of $942 million for the second quarter of 2017. Net sales increased on a year-over-year basis from $11.6 billion and net earnings from $899 million, while cash from operations remained steady at $1.5 billion. The company’s Space Systems […]

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 […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. on Tuesday announced net sales of $12.7 billion and net earnings from continuing operations of $942 million for the second quarter of 2017. Net sales increased on a year-over-year basis from $11.6 billion and net earnings from $899 million, while cash from operations remained steady at $1.5 billion. The company’s Space Systems […]

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 […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration will extend its contract with Centerra Group for protective force services at the agency’s Nevada Field Office for up to six months due to the incumbent’s bid protest over a follow-on contract the agency recently awarded to a competitor, SOC. The current security contract, awarded in December 2011 to Centerra, […]

Energy Secretary Rick Perry raised eyebrows this week by listing facilities in Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas as possible interim storage sites for U.S. nuclear waste, then a day later clarified that his agency has made no decisions on any potential locations. In successive budget hearings before House and Senate Appropriations committees, though, Perry left no […]

A shipment of radioactive waste from a nuclear cleanup site in Scotland was sent over the weekend to the U.S. Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, on its way to Tennessee, the Scottish Sunday Post newspaper reported. The radioactive waste was loaded onto a U.S. Air Force cargo plane and took off from Scotland on […]

A second failed bidder has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the new management and operations contract for the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site. Nuclear Security & Technology LLC, a partnership between Northrop Grumman Technical Services, AECOM subsidiary URS Federal Services, and CH2M Hill Constructors Inc., filed its 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]