Tag Archives: Department of Energy

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 22, 2021 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) appointed Thomas Moore, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, as vice president of nuclear operations within its technical solutions business, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 15.

The Department of Energy has selected General Atomics' electromagnetic systems business to develop a 50-megawatt electric reactor concept under a cost-shared partnership.

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.

Advanced Reactor Concepts, General Atomics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will collectively receive a total of $70.4M in funds from the Department of Energy to mature their nuclear reactor concepts as part of the fiscal year 2020 iteration of a technology demonstration program.

Rave Mobile Safety's emergency communications platform has been certified for government use under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

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.

The Department of Energy has selected 67 solar technology research projects to receive $130M in total grants to help address electricity cost, manufacturing competitiveness, grid resiliency challenges in the country.

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.

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.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 4, 2020 — The Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions joint venture will continue to help the Department of Energy operate and maintain tank farms at DOE's Hanford site in Washington state under a 12-month, $725M contract, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 14.

The Department of Energy has announced plans to earmark $30M in fiscal 2021 grants for small businesses' research and development projects that aim to support the DOE Office of Science mission.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 4, 2020 — A joint venture between Amentum and Envirocon will offer deactivation, decommissioning and removal services to the Department of Energy through a contract vehicle worth potentially $3B over 10 years, GovCon Wire reported July 22.

Parsons CEO and Chairman Chuck Harrington has been appointed to the board of directors at Quality of Life Plus, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the lives of wounded military veterans through innovation.

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.

An Akima subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $7M task order to provide technical support services to a power marketing administration under the Department of Energy.