Vol. 22, No. 33

Budget & Policy

Safety Board Details Fears of Lost Access to Nuke Weapons Sites

WASHINGTON — The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is not convinced, despite statements from the deputy secretary of energy here this week, that the Department of Energy intends to preserve the independent federal nuclear-watchdog’s unfettered access to U.S. nuclear-weapon sites. Energy Department officials testified Tuesday before the four-member board about an order published in […]
  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Nuclear Weapons Council Wants South Carolina Pit Progress By Mid-2019

    The Department of Energy will not be able to deliver 80 new nuclear-warhead cores per year in 2030 unless it starts building new plutonium processing facilities in South Carolina by the middle of 2019, the head of the Nuclear Weapons Council said Thursday. “From… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Canceling MOX Project is Quickest Way to Remove Plutonium From South Carolina, DOE Says

    Halting construction on the controversial Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) is not only legal, but it’s the quickest way to remove nuclear weapon-usable plutonium from South Carolina, the Department of Energy said Friday in a brief filed in federal… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Q&A with David “DJ” Johnson: Vice President and General Manager at Honeywell Federal Solutions

    Honeywell Vice President David “DJ” Johnson may be new to Department of Energy work, but he’s got national security chops from more than 20 years in the Air Force, from which he retired as a colonel. Honeywell put Johnson in charge of the company’s four… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! […]

  • National Laboratories

    LANL County Manager Denies Personnel Wrongdoing Amid Local Spending Flap

    While two reports made public this month in New Mexico have illustrated poor accounting practices at the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities, Los Alamos County Manager Harry Burgess rejects the suggestion county employees, acting as the group’s fiscal agency,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    NNSA Prepares More Funding for Medical Isotope Production

    The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is carrying through with a pledge made earlier this year to provide $40 million more to support development of domestic commercial production of the medical isotope molybdenum-99. The aim of the semiautonomous… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Pentagon Nuke Programs Sail Through in Senate Approps Bill

    Some time after they return to Washington next week, the House and Senate will come together for final negotiations on a fiscal 2019 defense spending bill that cleared the upper chamber last week. The Senate on Aug. 23 approved a multiagency appropriations measure… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]

  • Naval Nuclear Propulsion

    Huntington Ingalls Announces New Sub Construction VPs

    Huntington Ingalls Industries said Jason Ward is the new vice president of its Newport News Shipbuilding segment’s Columbia-class submarine construction program and that Dave Bolcar, who was previously vice president of all of the segment’s submarine construction,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Defense & Military

    Report: Air Force Fleets Ill-Prepared to Meet Tomorrow’s Battles

    After years of prolonged operations and little chance of a decreased tempo in years to come, the U.S. Air Force faces force structure shortfalls to varying degrees for each of its aircraft classes, a new study by the RAND Corp. has found. Analyzing four separate… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Correction

    The article “Draft RFP Issued for SRS Management Contract” (Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor, Vol. 22, No. 32) should have said the Department of Energy expects to issue a final solicitation for the Savannah River Site management contract in January… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]

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