Listing of Defense Programs blogs and press releases

Dr. William Bookless, NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator, spoke at the Fourth Annual Cost Estimating Community of Practice Symposium.

Son of NNSA employee won a nationwide NASA contest to name the extraterrestrial vehicle.

She will assist NNSA’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs in leading the team that directs the Stockpile Stewardship Program.

NNSA has completed construction of the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test Accelerator Weather Enclosure at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

NNSA has announced the completion of the Exascale Class Computer Cooling Equipment Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Sandia team works to get an important project done in spite of the obstacle of COVID-19.

NNSA and the U.S. Air Force successfully completed two flight tests in at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada for the B61-12 Life Extension Program.

Metrology -- the science of weights and measures -- helps maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the Nation’s nuclear arsenal.

NNSA has authorized the start of installation construction of the Calciner Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Pantex has announced the successful assembly of the W88 Alt 370 First Production Capability Unit.

NIF has resumed experiments after Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reduced operations in March due to COVID-19.

NNSA has awarded $8 million to the University of Illinois at Chicago to study properties of materials under extreme conditions.

NNSA will hold a virtual public hearing on the Draft Savannah River Site Plutonium Pit Production Environmental Impact Statement on April 30.

NNSA has released for public comment the Draft Savannah River Site Pit Production Environmental Impact Statement.

NNSA will apply its supercomputing capabilities and technical expertise in support of the fight to stop the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

NNSA has posted for public comment a draft Supplement Analysis to the 2008 Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operations of LANL.

Y-12 National Security Complex recently invested more than $1 million in upgrades to its Materials Testing Laboratory.

NNSA has approved the cost and schedule range for the Tritium Finishing Facility at the Savannah River Site.

NNSA is one of three federal agencies that have accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs.

NNSA OKs the conceptual design and cost range for a new lithium processing building at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

A team of Y-12 employees was recently recognized for the outstanding work in deactivating 16 uranium processing systems in Building 9206.

NNSA released a final Supplement Analysis to the 2008 Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.

Two key members of Los Alamos National Laboratory's plutonium mission contribute to New Mexico music.

NNSA's Uranium Processing Facility Project made progress with the recent completion of a new electrical substation at Y-12 National Security Complex.

NNSA and the U.S. Air Force, in support of NATO, successfully completed three non-nuclear system development flight tests of the B61-12 gravity bomb