Robert Smith, former vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin's radar and sensor systems unit, has joined BWX Technologies as president of government operations. BWXT said Monday Smith will oversee the company's nuclear business lines in the U.S. covering work for government customers such as the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration and NASA.

BWX Technologies plans to collaborate with two Department of Energy-funded national laboratories to design and develop a small nuclear reactor through a cost-sharing agreement potentially worth $106.6M over seven years. DOE will contribute $85.3M to the microreactor development project, the company said Wednesday.

BWX Technologies and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have teamed up to develop 3D printing technology for the production of metallic compounds needed to build a nuclear reactor system.

BWX Technologies President and CEO Rex Geveden said during an earnings call that the company was in talks with the U.S. Navy regarding possible characteristics of the service branch's follow-on platform to the Virginia-class attack submarine, USNI News reported Monday.

Investor’s Business Daily has included BWX Technologies in the publication's list of best environmental, social and governance companies for the second consecutive year in recognition of the firm's ESG efforts and stock performance.

A BWX Technologies subsidiary-led team has received the potential 10-year, $13B Tank Closure Contract at the Department of Energy’s Hanford site, the company reported on Monday. 

A BWX Technologies subsidiary has secured a contract of an undisclosed value from the Department of Energy-sponsored Oak Ridge National Laboratory to produce tristructural-isotropic nuclear fuel for Transformational Challenge Reactor development.

The Department of Energy has selected BWX Technologies’ Nuclear Operations Group subsidiary to provide a uranium-based fuel under a $3.6M contract.

BWX Technologies has begun to produce uranium and refurbish equipment as part of preparations to revive the tristructural-isotropic nuclear fuel manufacturing line at a company facility in Lynchburg, Va.

BWX Technologies announced on Thursday that the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program has awarded the company’s subsidiary, BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, a potential $806M contract to support the U.S. Navy’s program and to procure long-lead materials required for the manufacture of naval reactor components.

BWX Technologies announced on Wednesday that the company has begun the process to restart its existing TRISO nuclear fuel production line and is planning to expand its existing capacity within the next year. 

BWX Technologies has promoted Suzy Sterner to senior vice president of government relations, effective immediately, the company announced on Tuesday. 

Tom McCabe, a senior vice president and general counsel at BWX Technologies, told Vision Magazine in an interview about the company’s efforts to address potential cybersecurity threats posed by adversaries.

David Brown, a 35-year nuclear operations veteran, has been appointed president of a joint venture between BWX Technologies‘ technical services group and Aptim‘s federal services unit. He will lead the BWSR business that currently supports decommissioning, demolition and operations at multiple Naval Nuclear Laboratory sites through a contract with Fluor, BWXT said Tuesday. Brown …

Officials from NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate have visited BWX Technologies‘ facility in Lynchburg, Va. to monitor progress on the company’s nuclear thermal propulsion technologies. Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of NASA STMD, observed BWXT’s year-long progress on NTP projects that may support a future manned Mars mission, the company …