A Department of Defense office has cleared the final step in an environmental impact study process to push forward a program aimed at developing a mobile microreactor for generating advanced nuclear power to meet growing energy requirements. The Strategic Capabilities Office published a Record of Decision for Project Pele and will begin construction and testing […] More

Robb LeMasters, former managing director at Blue Harbor Group, has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer of BWX Technologies, effective Nov. 15. As part of BWXT’s executive succession planning process, LeMasters will succeed 30-year company veteran David Black, who has served as SVP and CFO since 2015, Lynchburg, Virginia-based government contractor said Friday. LeMasters currently […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 10, 2020 — Nuclear Waste Partnership, a joint venture of Amentum and BWX Technologies (BWXT), will continue to operate the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Plant in New Mexico under a potential two-year, $296M contract option, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 21.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 6, 2020 — Amentum, which leads the Savannah River Remediation joint venture, will continue to support liquid waste management efforts at the Department of Energy's nuclear reservation site in South Carolina, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 15.

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The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management has awarded Fluor a position on a potential 10-year, $3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide nationwide deactivation, decommissioning and removal of facilities, waste management and program support, the company announced Wednesday.

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Pennsylvania-based manufacturing firm Allegheny Technologies Inc. has entered into a 6.5-year agreement with BWX Technologies to provide materials that will support the U.S. Navy’s development of nuclear reactor components.

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QinetiQ announced on Wednesday that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire Manufacturing Techniques on a cash-free, debt-free basis for $105M to be paid in cash on completion. The transaction will more than double the size of QinetiQ’s U.S. operations.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to name Tom D'Agostino, president of Fluor’s government group, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for securing multiple contracts and programs to build the company. This honor marks the first Wash100 Award for D’Agostino.

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Tom McCabe, senior vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary of BWX Technologies, has been named as Outstanding Chief Legal Officer of the Year by the Association of Corporate Counsel’s National Capital Region chapter. McCabe received the award in the large company category. ACC recognized his leadership role in the merger of […] More

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat business unit has awarded a BWX Technologies subsidiary a $35 million contract to develop and build Virginia Payload Module launch tubes for Virginia-class submarines. BWXT Nuclear Operations Group will start the fabrication of the payload tubes in 2017 at its manufacturing facility in Mount Vernon, Indiana with the first delivery set for 2019, BWXT […] More

A BWX Technologies subsidiary has received a potential $241.5 million contract from an unidentified prime contractor to support an Energy Department program that aims to convert highly enriched uranium into a form suitable for fuel. Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. will help downblend as much as 10.4 metric tons of HEU under the HEU disposition initiative of […] More

A business unit of BWX Technologies has been awarded $34.5 million in contracts to produce nuclear reactors and related components for the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines. BWXT‘s nuclear operations group will perform majority of the contract work at its facilities in Virginia, Ohio and Indiana in the next two years, BWX Technologies said Monday. […] More