Listing of Defense Programs news and press releases

Dr. Ryuhei "Ron" Koshita shares his story as a Japanese-American physicist working as an NNSA Graduate Fellow.

Travelling from Washington, D.C. to Minnesota to Nevada to Arkansas, NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Frank Rose crossed the country May 8-16 to support a variety of NNSA missions.

The DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship will receive 39 new students for 2023-24, a new class size record. Established in 1991 and jointly funded by the DOE Office of Science and NNSA, the program trains top leaders in computational science.

Last month, Principal Deputy Administrator Frank Rose and Associate Principal Deputy Administrator James McConnell, visited organizations in Austria and partners in the United Kingdom to discuss ongoing joint efforts and explore new areas of cooperation.

In March 2023, NNSA’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs approved the W80-4 Life Extension Program (LEP) to transition into Phase 6.4, Production Engineering.

NNSA selected eight universities to receive cooperative agreements totaling $100 million to establish nine Stewardship Science Academic Alliances (SSAA) Centers of Excellence to support research activities in areas of physical sciences and engineering.

NNSA delivered the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan for Fiscal Year 2023. This report describes NNSA’s plans to implement the Biden Administration’s 2022 Nuclear Posture Review.

NNSA has awarded a $428,050,945 Phase II contract to Nuclear Fuel Services.

NNSA’s Office of Secure Transportation has won the government-wide Outstanding Small Aviation Unit award for the second year in a row.

For NNSA Graduate Fellow and UVA grad (Go Hoos!) Polly Keim, it was her university mentors that lead her to a nuclear security career and it’s her Defense Programs colleagues that inspire her to continue supporting NNSA’s mission.