Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, a limited liability company formed by BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), Amentum and Fluor (NYSE: FLR), has won a 10-year, $45 billion contract from the Department of Energy to manage tank waste at Hanford Site in Washington state. The award marks the second time H2C won the Hanford Integrated Tank...
The Department of Energy has issued a final solicitation for a potential $3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to carry out cleanup work at the West Valley Demonstration Project site in New York. The WVDP Phase 1B contract has an ordering period of 10 years and includes deactivation and demolition, waste disposition and soil re...
The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office established the Project Pele endeavor in 2019 with the goal of producing a transportable micronuclear reactor. This energy source would be secure, environmentally sound and able to generate one to five MegaWatts of electricity for at least three years of full-power operation. Ideally, ...
The U.S. Navy awarded Nuclear Fuel Services, a subsidiary of BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), a two-year $300 million contract to support the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. BWXT said Tuesday the company has begun producing fuel for the program, which is expected to be completed by mid-2025. The project involves manufacturing and delivering naval nu...
The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded a BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) business a potential $116.5 million contract to produce more than two metric tons of high assay low enriched uranium or HALEU feedstock for advanced reactors over the next five years. BWXT Nuclear Operations Group will generate the HALEU feedstock by processing ...
Kurt Bender, a 15-year information technology veteran in the aerospace and defense industries, has joined BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) as director of IT. Bender announced his new role on a LinkedIn post Sunday and said he looks forward to driving digital transformation in the government and commercial sectors. He most recently served as senior dire...
A limited liability company formed by Amentum, Fluor (NYSE: FLR) and Babcock International Group’s Cavendish Nuclear subsidiary has won a potential 10-year, $5.87 billion contract to perform decontamination and decommissioning work on a gaseous diffusion plant site in Portsmouth, Ohio. Southern Ohio Cleanup Company will demolish and dispose of...
The Department of Energy plans to extend its existing contract with Washington River Protection Solutions for another two years to manage tank waste at DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state. The planned contract extension will kick off on Oct. 1, 2023, and run through the end of September 2025, and covers base operations, tank retrieval...
BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) reported a 7 percent growth in fiscal 2023 first quarter revenue from government operations and attributed the growth to a higher production volume for nuclear components and microreactors. Sales in BWXT’s government segment for the period increased to $459.9 million, from the $431.8 million a year earlier, while ...
Tom McCabe, an industry veteran with more than three decades of legal and operations management experience, has been appointed chief operating officer and general counsel at digital engineering company Istari, GovCon Wire has learned. McCabe comes to Istari from BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), where he helped grow earnings over 50 percent in five yea...
