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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 7. december 2006 / Time Line December 7, 2006
Version 3.56. December 2006, 8. December 2006
12/07/2006
Special Nuclear Materials Being Drawn Down at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has begun reducing the
inventory of special nuclear material at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California. Special nuclear material,
including plutonium and highly enriched uranium, is fissile
material used in nuclear weapons and for research and development
purposes at the laboratory.
“Consolidating material is one of our main goals to transform
the Cold War-era nuclear weapons complex to be even more secure,
more efficient and more modern. We are taking concrete steps to
reduce the number of locations where we process and store
significant quantities of nuclear weapons materials,” said
NNSA Administrator Linton F. Brooks.
The first shipment of material out of Livermore was recently
completed in full compliance with existing safety and environmental
authorizations. The material was sent to a secure site at Los
Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. NNSA plans to remove
nearly all nuclear material from Livermore by 2014. A small
inventory of nuclear materials will remain at the laboratory for
research with overall security requirements greatly reduced.
NNSA’s strategy is to reduce the number of sites and
facilities with Category I and II amounts of special nuclear
materials, which require the highest level of security.
Consolidating nuclear materials and eliminating duplicative
capabilities at facilities will allow NNSA to further reduce the
total square footage set aside for weapons work at the eight sites
around the country in the nuclear weapons complex, thus reducing
resource-intensive physical security requirements.
Additional consolidation efforts are currently underway and planned
across the complex. Facilities are being constructed to enhance
security and consolidate highly enriched uranium at the Y-12
National Security Complex in Tennessee. Special nuclear materials
will be removed from Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico by
2008 and from Los Alamos National Laboratory by 2022. Like
Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos will retain small amounts of
special nuclear materials.
Established by Congress in 2000, NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency
within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing
national security through the military application of nuclear
science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security,
reliability and performance of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile
without nuclear testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons
of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective
nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological
emergencies in the U.S. and abroad. Visit www.nnsa.doe.gov for more
information.
12/07/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corp., King of Prussia, Pa., is being
awarded a $23,165,484 fixed-price-incentive fee contract
modification. This contract modification is for the
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and to provide Interim
Contractor Logistics Support (ICLS) for hardware in support of the
Safety Enhanced Re-entry Vehicle (SERV) Support Equipment (SE) that
provides the capability to replace the MK21 Re-entry Vehicle (RV),
from the Peacekeeper weapon system, into the Minuteman III weapon
system. To support this replacement program, ICLS hardware will
provide the needed coverage on hardware problems that may take
place out at the missile bases. At this time, total funds have been
obligated. This work will be complete by April 2009. Headquarters
Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the
contracting activity (FA8204-05-C-0005/P00005).
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ, is being awarded a
$20,593,236 cost-plus-award-fee contract modification for the
development and procurement of additional tooling and test
equipment in support of the continued development and delivery of
Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IA missiles to meet U.S. and
Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requirements in support of the Aegis
Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system. The work will be performed
in Tucson, AZ and is expected to be complete by November 2007. The
funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year for this sole
source effort. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC is the
contracting activity (N00024-03-C-6111).
Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., is being awarded a
$6,449,729 firm-fixed-price contract for a 90-calendar-day Post
Shipyard Availability of Military Sealift Command's dry cargo
ammunition ship USNS Lewis & Clark (T-AKE 1). The ship's
primary mission is to operate as part of a carrier strike group,
providing fuel, ammunition and dry and refrigerated stores to
support U.S. Navy ships at sea. The contract includes options
which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to
$8,394,329. Work will be performed in North Charleston, S.C., and
is expected to be completed within 90 calendar days from the
commencement of the contract in February 2007. Contract funds will
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was
competitively procured with two offers received. The U.S. Navy's
Military Sealift Fleet Support Command, a field activity of
Military Sealift Command, is the contracting authority
(N40442-07-C-3000).
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