National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded SOC, LLC a contract for security protective force services at the Nevada National Security Site and the agency’s field office facilities, NNSA announced Wednesday. The contract is valued at roughly $202.9 million over 5 years, with all options, for security at the Nevada site; the Remote Sensing Laboratory […]

Members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees responsible for annual defense authorization have voiced opposition to the White House’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal for differing reasons, raising questions about whether Congress will be able to agree on defense spending levels past the end of this fiscal year. While committee Republicans argue that the […]

The White House last week formally nominated two former National Nuclear Security Administration officials to key administration positions at the Pentagon and the Energy Department. One, Robert Hood, was nominated to be assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs. Hood was most recently vice president for government affairs at CH2M, an Energy Department contractor, and previously […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is seeking greater federal staffing levels in its fiscal 2018 budget request and remains concerned about recruiting talent to its sites across the United States, agency Administrator Frank Klotz said Wednesday. The request for the budget year starting Oct. 1 grants $418.6 million for NNSA’s federal salaries and expenses, which […]

The White House has officially proposed $1 billion in additional funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration in fiscal 2018, almost all of it for the agency’s weapons activities account. The Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday released President Donald Trump’s spending request for the budget year beginning Oct. 1, which would grant the Energy […]

The Donald Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal sustains its predecessor’s plan to terminate the Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, a decision the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said is unrelated to carryover in leadership at his agency. The NNSA’s $13.9 billion budget proposal includes $1.8 billion […]

The Donald Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal sustains its predecessor’s plan to terminate the Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina. The National Nuclear Security Administration’s $13.9 billion budget proposal includes $1.8 billion for the defense nuclear nonproliferation account, of which $279 million would go toward nonproliferation construction – a […]

While negotiating the best path forward to remove plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the state is also looking for resolution for the $200 million it is seeking from the federal government. Under a court order, the state and federal governments are in talks to resolve the plutonium dispute. The South Carolina […]

Savannah River Site security has been given direction to take appropriate action if a drone flying above the site presents a threat, an official at the South Carolina facility told a local advisory board on Monday. “Protocols are in place for engagement and I don’t really want to say anything else about that,” according to […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration is seeking greater federal staffing levels in its fiscal 2018 budget request and remains concerned about recruiting talent to its sites across the United States, agency Administrator Frank Klotz said Wednesday. The request for the budget year starting Oct. 1 grants $418.6 million for NNSA’s federal salaries and expenses, which […]

Savannah River Site security has been given direction to take appropriate action if a drone flying above the site presents a threat, an official at the South Carolina facility told a local advisory board on Monday. “Protocols are in place for engagement and I don’t really want to say anything else about that,” according to […]

The White House has officially proposed $1 billion in additional funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration in fiscal 2018, almost all of it for the agency’s weapons activities account. The Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday released President Donald Trump’s spending request for the budget year beginning Oct. 1, which would grant the Energy […]

The Donald Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal sustains its predecessor’s plan to terminate the Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina. The National Nuclear Security Administration’s $13.9 billion budget proposal includes $1.8 billion for the defense nuclear nonproliferation account, of which $279 million would go toward nonproliferation construction – a […]

While negotiating the best path forward to remove plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the state is also looking for resolution for the $200 million it is seeking from the federal government. Under a court order, the state and federal governments are in talks to resolve the plutonium dispute. The South Carolina […]

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said Friday it has scheduled a public hearing in Santa Fe, N.M., on June 7 to discuss safety concerns at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s main nuclear production area, the Technical Area 55 Plutonium Facility. The session will begin at 5 p.m. Mountain time and runs through 9:45 p.m. […]

The White House is angling for a sharp $1 billion increase to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s weapons activities budget in fiscal 2018, according to a spreadsheet that appears to show line items from the president’s full budget request to be released next week. The spreadsheet, obtained and released Thursday by the centrist Third Way […]

A change in corporate parents was enough to quickly undo the 2016 award for the management and operations contract for the Nevada National Security Site. The primary issue was the corresponding shift in past performance portfolios, an industry source told NS&D Monitor this week in the wake of the second and presumably final contract award […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission offered another positive assessment of contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services’ work in building the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The regulator said in a May 10 letter to contractor President and COO David Del Vecchio that “no violations or deviations were […]

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) last month began receiving liquid highly enriched uranium from Canada under a controversial program that will have the material traveling major U.S. highways on its way to South Carolina for the next few years. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said in an April 21 site report […]

Top generals with the U.S. Air Force on May 12 reaffirmed their call for continued modernization and recapitalization of the country’s nuclear capabilities. “We must modernize our aging delivery platforms, nuclear weapons and supporting infrastructure so that America’s deterrent remains credible and effective in the future,” Gen. David Goldfein, the service’s chief of staff, and Gen. […]

The U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals on May 12 dismissed an appeal filed by the management and operations contractor of the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site over a dispute on the allowability of certain contract costs. In 2013, a DOE contracting officer “disallowed” $1.3 million paid to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) under the […]

A pretrial hearing is scheduled for May 31 in Columbia, S.C., for one of two men accused of stealing $4.4 million from the federal government while working for the Savannah River Site’s MOX program. Aaron Vennefron, the founder of Ohio-based AV Security, pleaded not guilty to a host of charges in February. If he wants to plead guilty, […]

The U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by the management and operations contractor of the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site over a dispute on the allowability of certain contract costs. In 2013 a DOE contracting officer “disallowed” $1.3 million paid to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) under the contract […]

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) last month began receiving liquid highly enriched uranium from Canada under a controversial program that will have the material traveling major U.S. highways on its way to South Carolina for the next few years. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said in an April 21 site report […]

The government of Kazakhstan, aided by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, on Friday opened a nuclear security training center in the town of Alatau, the NNSA announced Monday. The center is intended for the training of local and international personnel from various nuclear facilities and organizations in “advanced nuclear security topics,” including physical protection, nuclear […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission offered another positive assessment of contractor CB&I AREVA MOX Services’ work in building the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The regulator said in a May 10 letter to contractor President and COO David Del Vecchio that “no violations or deviations were […]

The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories came in at No. 20 in Forbes Magazine’s 2017 ranking of the best employers in the United States. Forbes compiled its list based on surveys of 30,000 American workers who were asked how likely they were to recommend their employer to others. “Those results were the most important factor […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has for a second time awarded the management and operations contract for its Nevada National Security Site – this time to Mission Support and Test Services LLC (MSTS), a partnership of Honeywell International, Jacobs Engineering Group, and Stoller Newport News Nuclear. The contract, valued at $5 billion over 10 years […]

The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina has implemented a new initiative aimed at streamlining spent fuel operations and cutting costs in the process. Workers with Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), the site’s management and operations provider, are making better use of the transfer bay in L Area, according to the latest edition of […]

The Department of Energy is months late in providing Congress with a mandatory annual report on the MOX program at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, according to documents released Thursday. SRS Watch, a local nuclear watchdog, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request on March 15 asking DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to provide […]