Vol. 21, No. 22 SOC Wins Nevada Site Protective Force Services Contract
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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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Budget & Policy
Back Inside The Beltway with Ernie Moniz: Q&A
As though channeling Luis Tiant of his beloved Boston Red Sox, former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz turned away from Washington only briefly before coming back around full-tilt at the marble-pillared city he called home for more than three years as President Barack Obama’s last DOE chief. In March, just months after Donald Trump was sworn into office and […]
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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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Non-Proliferation
White House Proposes Funding Cuts for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Detection
The Trump administration has proposed funding decreases in fiscal 2018 to the State Department’s arms control and nonproliferation work, as well as reductions for the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO). The White House released last week a budget proposal requesting $37.6 billion for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Second Man Accused of Fraud in MOX Theft Case Pleads Guilty
Following in the footsteps of his partner in crime, the second man accused of stealing more than $4 million from the federal government while conducting work for the Savannah River Site MOX project reached a plea deal Wednesday. Aaron Vennefron, the founder of Ohio-based AV Security, initially pleaded not guilty to a host of charges […]
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Budget & Policy
Armed Services Committees Split in Opposing White House Defense Spending Proposal
Members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees responsible for annual defense authorization have voiced opposition to the White House’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal for differing reasons, raising questions about whether Congress will be able to agree on defense spending levels past the end of this fiscal year. While committee Republicans argue that the […]
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National Laboratories
Wrap Up: ORNL Names Thomas Zacharia New Director
Thomas Zacharia will be the next director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, the lab’s management and operating contractor UT-Battelle announced Thursday. Zacharia will take over on July 1, the day current lab director Thom Mason leaves to join Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, as senior vice president for laboratory operations. Zacharia began at […]