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Albuquerque Business First
April 28, 2018
I work for the National Nuclear Security Administration, which is a semi-autonomous agency of the Department of Energy. I work in the CIO's office with the Information Management department. I am a federal manager over the operations team, where we assure that our customers have network connectivityÃâà...
Albuquerque Business First
April 28, 2018
As a manager at one of New Mexico's largest employers, I have proven to be a consistently high-performing individual, contributing to mission success for critical National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Energy programs. The work I execute daily impacts Sandia, the local community andÃâà...
Santa Fe New Mexican
April 28, 2018
The stand-down at the plutonium facility comes as the lab is facing increased scrutiny. The National Nuclear Security Administration is planning to escalate production of plutonium pits and must decide where to launch the decades-long project. Los Alamos, which has produced plutonium pits on a smallÃâà...
Los Alamos Monitor
April 26, 2018
The contract worth more than $2 billion annually to operate and manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory could be awarded as soon as April or May, according to publicly available documents from the National Nuclear Security Administration. All bids are now finalized for the contract, according to pressÃâà...
Missouri S&T News and Research
April 20, 2018
In 2007, Agee took her first of several engineering roles at Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies in Kansas City, Missouri, where she served for almost 10 years supporting manufacturing efforts for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. In 2017, she transitioned toÃâà...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
April 20, 2018
The National Academies report was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. ###. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world's most urgentÃâà...
War on the Rocks
April 20, 2018
In November 2017, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its annual Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan, the first under the Trump administration. Buried in this 328-page document lies new language that the agency stands ready to conduct a “simple” nuclear test as littleÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 20, 2018
The National Nuclear Security Administration, the part of the Energy Department that oversees the nuclear sites and materials, favors switching to the dilute-and-dispose method. In recent testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the new NNSA administrator, saidÃâà...
The Hill
April 19, 2018
The Trump administration is proposing massive cuts to vital programs responsible for securing nuclear weapons-usable material around the world. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the agency primarily responsible for working with other countries to reduce nuclear terrorism risks, wantsÃâà...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
April 18, 2018
Stakeholders from the State and Energy Departments and the National Nuclear Security Administration made contributions, but media reports suggest an opaque authorship structure. The American Conservative reported that Keith Payne, president of the National Institute of Public Policy, helped write theÃâà...
ExecutiveGov
April 18, 2018
The Office of Management and Budget has requested the repurpose of $65 million Energy Department funds for the National Nuclear Security Administration's low-yield warhead initiative, Defense News reported Tuesday. NNSA announced plans to create the W76-2 warhead based on the W76-1 payloadÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 17, 2018
In a reprogramming request sent to Congress last week, the Office of Management and Budget requested shifting $65 million to the National Nuclear Security Administration for “engineering development, and any subsequent phases, of a low-yield nuclear weapon.” The creation of a submarine-launched,Ãâà...
Pleasanton Weekly (blog)
April 15, 2018
Thomas said the El Capitan will be the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale supercomputer, capable of at least a quintillion calculations per ... The Lab is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration.
The Boston Globe
April 11, 2018
The US Department of Energy's nuclear security team will conduct helicopter flights over the Boston Marathon route ahead of Monday's big race to test naturally occurring radiation levels. Shelley Laver, a spokeswoman for National Nuclear Security Administration, said the tests are conducted to establishÃâà...
framinghamsource.com
April 11, 2018
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights over the route. Read more. Purchase Photos or Donate to Framingham Source Via PayPal. Recent Posts. Framingham Police Chief Ferguson To RetireÃâà...
Energy Business Review
April 3, 2018
The authorization allows the department's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to begin construction on the Main Process Building (MPB), Salvage & Accountability Building (SAB), and Process Support Facilities (PSF) subprojects. As per NNSA, the three-story 240,000ft2 MPB will be used forÃâà...
Homeland Preparedness News
April 3, 2018
Atlanta-area nuclear regulators, researchers, medical providers and first responders to discuss their roles in the event of a “dirty bomb” attack relying on a radiological dispersal device in a recent workshop. The workshop was hosted by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office ofÃâà...
Oak Ridge Today
March 30, 2018
Peery succeeds Brent Park, who was recently confirmed as deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration. Park has led the Global Security Directorate since July 2010. “James will be responsible for ensuring that ORNL is applying its researchÃâà...
Construction Equipment
March 29, 2018
The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. NNSA is responsible for maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and manages the Y-12Ãâà...
Oak Ridger
March 28, 2018
Dale Christenson, National Nuclear Security Administration, Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, Tenn., has been presented the U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Project Director of the Year Award, according to a recent release shared with The Oak Ridger. Christenson reportedly won theÃâà...
Aiken Standard
March 20, 2018
The leader of the National Nuclear Security Administration told a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday she believes the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site is "nowhere close" to 50 percent complete. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, who was sworn in as both the NNSAÃâà...
Aiken Standard
March 15, 2018
On Wednesday, the leader of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, said a secondary review of potential pit production locations is wrapping up – "The engineering analysis that is currently underway is in its final stages" – and will be reviewed shortly thereafter. "Draft dataÃâà...
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 15, 2018
The National Nuclear Security Administration in November completed the roughly 400-page study comparing the potential costs, time frame and risks of ... A summary of the National Nuclear Security Administration's study, leaked in December, shows that Los Alamos and the Savannah River Site in SouthÃâà...
Government Accountability Office
March 14, 2018
Agencies dealing with nuclear materials face critical management challenges. The Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) manages the nuclear weapons stockpile and supports nonproliferation efforts. DOE addresses contamination at nuclear weapons productionÃâà...
Aiken Standard
March 9, 2018
22 as the U.S. Department of Energy's under secretary for nuclear security and the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration – visited several SRS facilities and introduced herself to employees and local officials. "I promised Sen. Lindsey Graham during my confirmation hearing that IÃâà...
Aiken Standard
March 5, 2018
It is the National Nuclear Security Administration's preferred alternative to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, another SRS facility poised, upon completion, to process plutonium. The termination of MOX is an ongoing – and controversial – battle. The 2019 budget request is congruous with terminationÃâà...
Energy.gov (blog)
February 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty was sworn in today by U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry as the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Administrator Gordon-Hagerty is responsible forÃâà...
Government Accountability Office
February 16, 2018
The National Nuclear Security Administration manages U.S.-origin enriched uranium for certain needs such as for the production of tritium, which is used in nuclear weapons. After losing its last source of U.S.-origin enriched uranium in 2013, NNSA projected that its supply would run out in 2027. We foundÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
February 12, 2018
The National Nuclear Security Administration, a semiautonomous arm of the Department of Energy, has oversight on nuclear warhead development, production and security. This is the second year the NNSA was slated for a budget increase, although the FY18 request — $13.9 billion, an increase of 7.8Ãâà...
Aiken Standard
February 8, 2018
President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration believes plutonium pit production to be a pressing priority. The nominee also said she is willing to cooperate with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to figure out the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility.
Los Alamos Monitor
December 31, 1999
Yet the current demands of the stockpile stewardship program have placed increasing loads on an aging National Nuclear Security Administration infrastructure.” Los Alamos National Laboratory's aging infrastructure recently made the news when a leaked analysis of alternatives study seemed to favorÃâà...
Knoxville News Sentinel
December 31, 1999
Y-12 National Security Complex is a Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The site, once called Clinton Engineer Works, was responsible for separating bomb-grade uranium isotopes to construct the nuclear weapon, Little Boy. Y-12's mission sinceÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
A collaboration of American and British scientists announced on Tuesday that they would build a test antineutrino detector called Watchman in a mine on the northeast coast of England. The project is sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration, part of the United States Department of Energy.
The Hill
December 31, 1999
... invest .5M in projects aiming to improve the performance of coal MORE, citing documents that appear to show that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) paid more than $24 million to the partnership of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for costs from a series of whistleblower cases.
ExecutiveGov
December 31, 1999
President Donald Trump has appointed Charles Verdon, a principal associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as deputy administrator for defense programs at the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration. At LLNL, Verdon leads the federal research facility'sÃâà...
Nextgov
December 31, 1999
The National Nuclear Security Administration put out a notice seeking women-owned small businesses and economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses capable of securing nuclear sites globally from physical and cyber threats. While the sources sought notice leads with “physical securityÃâà...
Livermore Independent
December 31, 1999
Charles P. Verdon, principal associate director at Lawrence Livermore National laboratory, was nominated by the White House this week to become deputy administrator of Defense Programs in the National Nuclear Security Administration. Senate confirmation is required. Assuming that occurs, Verdon willÃâà...
