Budget & Policy

With No Spending Caps Deal, DOE Budget Watchers Get Another Week of Uncertainty

By Photo of Dan Leone

Watchers of the Department of Energy’s defense nuclear waste and weapons budgets will endure another week of added uncertainty about those programs after Congress blew town for an extended spring break without making progress on a deal to avert automatic spending…

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Congressionally Mandated Study Finds NNSA Pit Plan ‘Potentially Achievable’

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S.C. Says MOX Penalties Will Continue After Plutonium Removal

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Triad to Seek Bids for Pit-Waste Treatment Plant at LANL

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NNSA Kansas City on Track to Award Lease for Production Space in 2019, GAO Says

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House Panel to Unveil Nuke Parts of 2020 NDAA June 4

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Honeywell 1Q Revenue Drops 15% on Spinoffs

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MOX Services Wants to Keep Keys to MFFF Information Vault, Court Doc Shows

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Energy Department IG Reportedly Looking at Los Alamos Communities Group

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Global Strike Command Leader Expects Cost of New ICBM to Increase in Short Term

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Air Force Awards Boeing $14 Billion Bomber Weapons Sustainment Contract

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Bechtel Vice President Graham Retiring

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Senators File Bill to Strengthen Independence of Federal Advisory Committees

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