Contracts & Procurement

Montana-based S&K Logistics has secured a contract worth up to $17.4 million over five years to provide a host of technical and business assistance services for the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s Los Alamos Field Office. The field office oversees cleanup of legacy nuclear contamination and waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in […]

BWX Technologies subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services has received roughly $141.7 million in first-quarter contract options from the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program for nuclear submarine and aircraft carrier fuel production, development, and decommissioning operations, the company announced last week. BWXT said it has already begun this contract work, with the majority scheduled for completion throughout […]

Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy told investors last week his company is reviewing its options when it comes to teaming on the Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, which is intended to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile as the ground-based leg of the nuclear triad. “Right now, our strategy is we are engaging with multiple […]

The earnings season for the first quarter of 2017 is well underway, with Northrop Grumman, Lockeed Martin, and other federal contracting giants rolling out their latest numbers in the last week. Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls will join them with an earnings call scheduled for 9 a.m. Eastern time Thursday. The Newport News, Va.-based company’s revenue and […]

A Jacobs Engineering subsidiary has secured the $350 million contract for remediation of the Parks Township, Pa., Shallow Land Disposal Area under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP), the Defense Department announced this week. The cost-plus-fixed-free contract awarded to Jacobs Field Services North America covers “development of work plans, […]

Environmental services provider US Ecology on Thursday reported year-over-year dips in both revenue and net income for the first quarter of 2017. Company-wide revenue for the three-month period ending March 31 slipped from $113.3 million in 2016 to $110.2 million this year, according to a company press release. US Ecology recorded $5.2 million in net […]

BWX Technologies on Monday said it had secured a $76.2 million contract to produce more Common Missile Compartment (CMC) tube assemblies for next-generation U.S. and U.K. ballistic missile submarines. This is the third contract the BWXT Nuclear Operations Group has received from Columbia-class vessel prime General Dynamics Electric Boat for the assemblies – the vertical […]

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 […]

A company hired to provide specialty steel bars for construction of the MOX facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has agreed to pay $4.6 million in damages after being accused of supplying “defective steel reinforcing bar,” the Department of Justice said this week. Energy & Process Corp., a Georgia-based supplier […]

Calvin Biesecker Defense Daily A pension tailwind, lower tax rate, and higher operating income led Northrop Grumman on Wednesday to post strong earnings in its first quarter as sales grew modestly. Net income rose 15 percent to $640 million, $3.63 earnings per share (EPS), from $556 million ($3.03 EPS) a year ago, topping analysts’ expectations by 21 […]

Environmental services provider US Ecology on Thursday reported year-over-year dips in both revenue and net income for the first quarter of 2017. Company-wide revenue for the three-month period ending March 31 slipped from $113.3 million in 2016 to $110.2 million this year, according to a company press release. US Ecology recorded $5.2 million in net […]

Savannah River Remediation will remain the prime liquid waste managment contractor at the Savannah River Site through Dec. 31 under a six-month contract extension the Energy Department announced Thursday. DOE did not disclose the value of the modification in Thursday’s press release. The agency is in the middle of a competition for the next big liquid […]

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 […]

A company hired to provide specialty steel bars for construction of the MOX facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has agreed to pay $4.6 million in damages after being accused of supplying “defective steel reinforcing bar,” the Department of Justice said this week. Energy & Process Corp., a Georgia-based supplier […]

BWX Technologies on Monday said it had secured a $76.2 million contract to produce more Common Missile Compartment (CMC) tube assemblies for next-generation U.S. ballistic missile submarines. This is the third contract the BWXT Nuclear Operations Group has received from General Dynamics Electric Boat for the tube assemblies, following deals in November 2014 and March […]

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 […]

An article in the April 11 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, “Bechtel Seeks Permission to Install Pipe for WTP,” should have said the company’s contract with Department of Energy to build the Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford Site is worth about $14.5 billion, and that roughly $7.5 billion of the total is for the […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration will extend for three months its contract with TechSource for technical support to the agency’s Office of Systems Engineering and Integration, according to a notice posted last week. The contract requires technical support for development of integrated master schedules for the NNSA’s management and operations contractors’ schedules to reflect program milestones; […]

The Department of Energy will soon solicit support for its Office of Enterprise Assessments’ National Training Center (NTC) in New Mexico, according to a preliminary notice posted Thursday. The upcoming solicitation will seek support for security and safety training, as well as cybersecurity and information technology activities, at the NTC located on Kirtland Air Force […]

SC&A Inc. of Vienna, Va., will help the Energy Department prepare a supplemental environmental evaluation the agency must conduct to finalize its two-phase plan to tear down a former commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in upstate New York, under a five-year contract worth nearly $17 million, including options, DOE announced late Thursday. The Contract for the West […]

Portage Inc. earned $1.1 million of its possible $1.5 million fiscal 2016 award fee as the prime contractor for the Department of Energy’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) contract. It received a “good” rating for the year, according to DOE’s latest evaluation, reflecting that grade in three performance areas: project management; tailings excavation, […]

The next technical services contract at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office in Lexington, Ky., is a five-year deal, including options, that has been set aside for eligible small-businesses, according to the draft solicitation the agency released recently. The contract is a follow-on to the roughly $50-million Portsmouth Environmental Technical Services contract held by Restoration […]

The next technical services contract at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office in Lexington, Ky., is a five-year deal, including options, that has been set aside for eligible small-businesses, according to the draft solicitation the agency released recently. The contract is a follow-on to the roughly $50-million Portsmouth Environmental Technical Services contract held by Restoration […]

Portage Inc. earned $1.1 million of its possible $1.5 million fiscal 2016 award fee as the prime contractor for the Department of Energy’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) contract. It received an overall “good” rating for the year, reflecting that grade in three performance areas: project management; tailings excavation, haul, and disposal; and […]

The United Kingdom on Monday announced the early termination of the 2014 contract for management and decommissioning of its 12 Magnox nuclear sites, and a more than $120 million settlement with two companies that partnered on an unsuccessful bid for the work. An independent inquiry is also planned into the procurement process that led to […]

HPM Corp., the Hanford occupational medical services provider at Hanford, earned 91.7 percent of the fee available in fiscal 2016, according to a notification it received from the Department of Energy last week. It earned $302,610 of the $330,000 available, according to a summary prepared by DOE. The evaluation showed a small improvement over the […]

HPM Corp., the occupational medical services provider at the Hanford Site in Washington state, earned 91.7 percent of its possible award fee for fiscal 2016, the Department of Energy told the company last week. HPMC earned $302,610 of the available $330,000, according to DOE. The evaluation represented a small improvement over the previous fiscal year […]

  The Energy Department is refusing to say when two outstanding cleanup contracts might be awarded at the Idaho National Laboratory site, or why the contract procurements were delayed in the first place. DOE early last year awarded its primary five-year Idaho cleanup contract — worth about $1.4 billion — to the contractor team Fluor […]

A Toronto-based construction and remediation company has secured the contract to finish building and then operate the Port Hope Project radioactive waste disposal facility in Ontario, Canada, the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) announced on March 17. ECC/Quantum Murray is already building the first storage cell in the engineered above-ground mound. Under contract with the Canadian […]

A Toronto-based construction and remediation company has secured the contract to complete construction of the Port Hope Project radioactive waste disposal facility in Ontario, Canada, and then to operate the above-ground storage mound, the Port Hope Area Initiative announced Friday. ECC/Quantum Murray is already building the facility’s first storage cell. Under contract with the Canadian National […]