Vol. 27, No. 08 
Fluor CEO anticipates Pantex award decision in second half of year
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Contracts & Procurement
PE firm sells DOE businesses after three-years of M&A; Cadre Holdings acquires
A private equity firm that acquired and merged several businesses that work for the Department of Energy sold the rolled-up companies to Cadre Holdings, a Jacksonville, Fla., maker of law-enforcement equipment. Cadre bought Alpha Safety Group, created by Benford Capital Partners of Chicago in 2021 from the former Nuclear Filter Technologies, for a little more […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
No funds for U.S. uranium industry, NNSA Ukraine help in House foreign-aid counter proposal
A small bipartisan group in the House released a foreign aid bill with new border security policies and war aid for Ukraine, but no stimulus funds for domestic uranium enrichment. The roughly $66-billion bill filed Feb. 15 by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is a counterproposal to the roughly $95-billion foreign aid bill the Senate passed, […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA ponders potential Vegas office move
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration is shopping around for a new Nevada Field Office headquarters in greater Las Vegas, a federal advisory board heard Wednesday evening. Jill Hruby, who heads DOE’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, is slated to meet with Las Vegas officials next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss a […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Northrop Grumman reports more Sentinel missile tests
Several recent tests of the Air Force’s land-based, LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif., reflect “significant progress” in the weapon’s engineering, manufacturing and development phase, missile prime Northrop Grumman said Tuesday. “Forward and aft sections of a Sentinel ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile ] missile were evaluated through a […]
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Non-Proliferation
Round up: alleged weapons grade plutonium trafficking; Livermore environmental paperwork; NRC clears way for more tritium at TVA; more
A high-ranking Japanese member of the Yakuza international organized crime syndicate allegedly planned to traffic materials containing uranium and weapons grade plutonium from Burma to other countries, including Iran, the Department of Justice wrote this week in a press release describing an indictment against Takeshi Ebisawa in the U.S. Southern District of New York. “As […]