Vol. 28, No. 30 
House abandons planned vote on DOE and NNSA’s 2025 budget bill
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Contracts & Procurement
Amentum-Jacobs contracting combo plan NYSE listing, board of directors
After Virginia-based Amentum merges with the Jacobs government contracting and cyber businesses this year, the company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “AMTM,”, according to a financial filing last week. Dallas-based Jacobs will… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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National Laboratories
NNSA head says Los Alamos lab growth has ‘about peaked’
Los Alamos National Laboratory is slowing its hiring and growth with aims to alleviate overcrowding in the community, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said in answer to a local’s question at a large and vocal town hall Monday. “We’re… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Pentagon official says Sentinel program ‘100 thousand percent’ crucial to NATO’s deterrence policy
The Sentinel modernization program is not only “absolutely necessary” but “might not be sufficient” for Europe’s defense, a Department of Defense official said last week at a virtual discussion after the NATO summit in Washington. “We cannot afford… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
PanTeXas Deterrence announces key personnel as Pantex management transition begins
PanTeXas Deterrence announced four key personnel who will lead management of the Pantex Plant alongside Kelly Beierschmitt, president of the BWX Technologies-led venture, the parent announced Tuesday. The four other senior managers leading PanTeXas Deterrence are: Carl… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
South Carolina won a $600M settlement with DOE. The money could change — in big ways and small — how people in Aiken live.
Roughly 25 miles up the road from the Savannah River Site, about equidistant between Aiken in South Carolina and Augusta in Georgia, sits Aiken Technical College. Founded in 1972, the public community college has about 1,800 students, many of whom focus on the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Old MOX equipment removed from Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility
Workers at the Savannah River Site in June removed the last pieces of plutonium recycling equipment from a building that will house the site’s pit plant, the site’s management contract said Wednesday. Over 18 months, workers removed over 2,500 gross tons of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be […]
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Budget & Policy
Where is Kamala Harris on nuclear?
Vice President Kamala Harris’ (D) positions on nuclear weapons, when she’s taken any at all, hew closely to Democratic orthodoxies of support for the Iran nuclear deal and denuclearization of North Korea. Harris, fast becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Budget & Policy
DNFSB sets August hearing on aging infrastructure
A federal safety watchdog will hear testimony from government agencies next month on best practices for taking care of aging nuclear infrastructure, some of which is a half-century old. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) has set a public hearing… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]
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National Laboratories
Plaintiff serves DOE Sandia in defamation case
A plaintiff who claims false statements by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico led to the breakup of his marriage served legal papers on the government defendant, he told a federal court last week. After being warned by U.S.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]
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International
Wrap-up: DOE discussed Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Bucharest; AUKUS training in Pearl Harbor; CNS announced Pantex largest Texas panhandle employer
The secretary of energy discussed plans for modernizing the Cernavoda nuclear power plant and other U.S.-Romania civil nuclear and energy projects in Bucharest July 23-24, according to a Department of Energy press release. Jennifer Granholm, the U.S. secretary… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]