Vol. 23, No. 40

Contracts & Procurement

AECOM to Sell Government Contracting Biz to Investment Group for $2.4B

AECOM announced Monday it plans to sell its government contracting business for $2.4 billion to two investment firms rather than advancing a previous plan to spin the branch off into a stand-alone public company. Affiliates of New York City-based American Securities and Lindsay Goldberg are joining to buy AECOM’s Management Services business. In its press […]
  • Budget & Policy

    Perry to Resign as DOE Secretary, With Nuclear Weapon Programs on Autopilot

    Rick Perry on Thursday announced his resignation as the Donald Trump administration’s first secretary of energy after more than two-and-a-half years on the job. In a published letter to President Donald Trump, Perry said he would resign “later this year” from the Cabinet. Dan Brouillette, the deputy secretary of energy, will then take over as […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Supreme Court Will Not Hear MFFF Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to hear South Carolina’s argument that an appeals court illegally denied the state its right to contest the Department of Energy’s decision to close an over-budget, behind-schedule plutonium-disposal plant at the Savannah River Site. The decision from the high court, for which there is no appeal, spells the […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Trump Appears to Confirm Nuclear Weapons at Air Force Base in Turkey

    President Donald Trump this week appeared to break with the longstanding norm of not disclosing the location of U.S. nuclear weapons deployed abroad by telling a reporter he was “confident” weapons stored at Turkey’s Incirlik air base remained safe. Turkish military forces last week crossed into Syria after Trump — in a move widely criticized […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Senate Tees Up Potential Vote on Appropriations Bills Covering DOE, Pentagon

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) this week filed cloture on the motion to proceed with two appropriations bills for fiscal 2020, opening up the possibility of the Senate voting next week on a minibus bill full of domestic spending, and possibly a second minibus that would fund the Department of Energy. The first package […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Court-Ordered Review of UPF Seismic Hazards Could Take Months, NNSA Says

    It could be 2020 before the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) incorporates the latest federal earthquake data into the agency’s environmental review of a planned next-generation uranium hub, a spokesperson this week. As part of a lawsuit brought by environmental and nuclear watchdogs, a federal judge in late September ordered the semiautonomous Department of Energy branch […]

  • Naval Nuclear Propulsion

    BWXT Gets $806M Contract for Navy Sub, Carrier Reactor Components

    BWX Technologies said Thursday it has received a contract to procure long-lead components for U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers, which including options is worth $806 million over seven years. In a press release, the Lynchburg, Va., company said the contract from the “U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program” has a one-year base period worth […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    NNSA Approves Transfer of U.S.-Origin Nuke Materials to Sweden from S. Korea

    The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has cleared the future transfer of some U.S.-origin uranium and plutonium, currently in irradiated fuel rods, from South Korea’s state-owned Korea Electric Power Co. to Studsvik Nuclear AB, in Nykoping, Sweden, according to a Federal Register notice published Tuesday. In Sweden, the rods “will be used for testing the fuel cladding, guide […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Nuke Negotiator Gottemoeller Leaving NATO; Plans New START Book

    Rose Gottemoeller, the Obama administration’s lead negotiator of the New START nuclear arms control treaty between the U.nited States and Russia, began saying public goodbyes this week as part of her long-planned departure as deputy secretary general of NATO. “I will be heading back to the United States and I’m looking forward to writing a […]

  • Defense & Military

    Senate Confirms Barbara Barrett as Air Force Secretary

    All of the U.S. military services officially have a permanent leader for the first time since May as the Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Barbara Barrett as Air Force secretary. The Senate confirmed Barrett by a vote of 85-7. Senators who voted no include Senate Armed Services Committee members Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Tammy Duckworth […]

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