Huntington Ingalls Industries

The management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site could be headed to trial near the end of the year over a federal negligence lawsuit filed in November by a site employee. A scheduling order filed Monday in U.S. District Court for South Carolina outlines tasks that must be completed by […]

The U.S. Department of Energy has ramped up downblending of a tranche of plutonium at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, with work to increase further if the mission continues at a successful pace. In November, site management and operations contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) increased operations to two 12-hour shifts per day, […]

ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will hone its acquisition approach for the plutonium-pit plant to be built at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina around September 2020, a long-time agency contractor said here Wednesday.  Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the Savannah River site management contractor, is on the hook to […]

The incumbent management and operations contractor and the vendor in charge of liquid waste at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina both received at least 90 percent of their potential fee in new performance evaluations. Fluor-led site prime Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) and AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation both received “excellent” overall […]

The incumbent management and operations contractor and the vendor in charge of liquid waste at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina both received at least 90 percent of their potential fee in new performance evaluations. Fluor-led site prime Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) and AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation both received “excellent” overall […]

The cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has extended the deadline for proposals from subcontractors interested in providing off-site environmental analysis. In an updated notice posted Jan. 22 on FedBizOpps.gov, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) said the deadline had been pushed back from Jan. 21 to […]

The cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has extended the deadline for proposals from subcontractors interested in providing off-site environmental analysis. In an updated notice posted Jan. 22 on FedBizOpps.gov, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) said the deadline had been pushed back from Jan. 21 to […]

The management and operations contractor for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina said it has enough job openings for more than half of the people who will be laid off as a result of the Department of Energy canceling construction of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) “does have […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory management prime Triad National Security is whipping together plans for addressing the major weapons projects of the future and cleaning up after major lab faux pas of the past. Triad, a three-way partnership of Battelle, longtime Los Alamos operator the University of California, and Texas A&M University, took over as the […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries said Tuesday its Newport News Shipbuilding had secure a roughly $200 million subcontract modification to provide long-lead components, including commodities materials, and labor for the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. Huntington Ingalls is a major subcontractor on General Dynamics Electric Boat’s roughly $5 billion Naval Sea Systems Command prime contract to develop and […]

George Rael, a longtime Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) official, has joined Longenecker & Associates as a project manager at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico effective this week. Longenecker is a subcontractor to Triad National Security, which on Nov. 1 took over as the NNSA’s management and operations […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries said this week it has hired two former National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) field office managers to lead a performance assessment team for company affiliates at Department of Energy nuclear sites. Kim Lebak, who managed the NNSA’s Los Alamos Field Office from 2014 through 2017, and Doug Dearolph, who ran the NNSA […]

Warship builder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) hopes its ownership of a nuclear cleanup business will offer an opportunity to break into for what is expected to be a growing market for decommissioning of commercial atomic energy plants “Our group is very focused on determining the right way for us to focus in the commercial D&D […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries has hired two former officials with the Department of Energy’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration to lead a performance assessment team for company affiliates doing work at nuclear sites around the country. Kim Lebak, who managed the NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Field Office from 2014 through 2017, and Doug Dearolph, who […]

The Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico last year shipped 5,058,687 kilograms of low-level radioactive waste off-site for disposal at federal and commercial properties. Operations at storied nuclear weapons laboratory generate low-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, mixed low-level waste, and mixed transuranic waste, according to the 2017 Annual Site Environmental Report […]

The contractor for legacy cleanup at the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B), has hired a subcontractor to remove telephone poles, old fences, and tons of concrete from Technical Area 21. The $1.5 million contract was awarded to a team of Montana-based Envirocon and Los Alamos-based […]

Representatives from incumbent Navarro Research and Engineering were among the 37 participants registered for an Aug. 14 presolicitation meeting with Energy Department officials on the next Nevada Environmental Program Services contract. Among the other companies that sent staffers to Henderson, Nev., to learn more about the draft request for proposals posted by DOE in July: […]

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, is now vice president of the Virginia-class submarine construction program. Ward was previously director of Columbia-class construction. Separately, U.S. Navy Rear […]

Lower taxes, the gift that just keeps giving this year for corporations, combined with a pension benefit, propelled Huntington Ingalls Industries to a hefty increase in earnings despite a dip in operating profit at the segment level. Net income soared 63 percent to $239 million, or $5.40 a share, from $147 million, or $3.21 a […]

Triad National Security, incoming management and operations contractor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, filled out some of the lower levels of its organization chart this week, identifying 11 more employees in its science, operations, and weapons stovepipes. The recently identified Triad execs are: Weapons Mission: Michael Bernardin, associate laboratory director, weapons design. Bernardin is […]

Excising the profit-seeking mindset from the Los Alamos National Laboratory was key to keeping the University of California on the storied nuclear-weapons lab’s management team, an executive with the massive public university system said Wednesday. After about a dozen years under the for-profit Los Alamos National Security, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in June […]

Sharon Brady is the the new chief operating officer for Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3), a significant player in the Energy Department complex. The company announced the move, which has been official since June 4, on Tuesday. Brady has worked in a variety of corporate and government contract posts at SN3 predecessor […]

Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries said Wednesday that Michael Smith will become president of subsidiary Stoller Newport News Nuclear (SN3) effective immediately. Smith has been Huntington Ingalls’ executive vice president for strategy and development. In his new post, Smith will report to Michael Lempke, president of Huntington Ingalls’ nuclear and environmental group. As president of SN3, […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries, the military shipbuilder which is also the parent company of Savannah River Site contractor Stoller Newport News Nuclear, used its quarterly earnings call last week to tout the success of a SN3-BWX Technologies joint venture in landing a cleanup contract in December. “[T]he team secured a key win as a part of […]

Longenecker & Associates has hired a new executive to lead its mission assurance team as it increases its workload in that area at two Department of Energy sites. Energy Department and nuclear navy veteran Craig Ferguson is now Longenecker’s group vice president for mission assurance, according to a Jan. 26 press release. The Las Vegas-based […]

As of midday Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office had not ruled on protests filed against the Energy Department’s award of a $4.7 billion liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. It also appears GAO has not to date received any bid protests on the $1.39 billion award for legacy […]

A team comprised of Stoller Newport News Nuclear and BWX Technologies has been awarded a $1.39 billion contract for legacy cleanup operations at the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This will be Stoller’s first major operational contract at the nuclear weapons lab, where BWXT is an old hand as a partner […]

Calvin Biesecker Defense Daily Huntington Ingalls Industries on Wednesday posted strong financial results in its third quarter driven by work on aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships for the Navy and the acquisition last year of a technical services company. Huntington Ingalls is the parent company of Stoller Newport News Nuclear: one of the partners on […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced two promotions at its Newport News Shipbuilding division. Dave Bolcar was promoted from director of the Columbia-class submarine program to vice president of submarine construction. Bill Smith was promoted from program director for aircraft carrier fleet support to vice president, fleet support programs. Smith will be responsible for submarine and carrier fleet […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced two promotions at its Newport News Shipbuilding division. Dave Bolcar was promoted from director of the Columbia-class submarine program to vice president of submarine construction. Bill Smith was promoted from program director for aircraft carrier fleet support to vice president, fleet support programs. Smith will be responsible for submarine and carrier fleet […]