DOE deal.DOE Deal: A joint venture led by Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Corp. was awarded a five-year, $2.5 billion contract to manage and operate the U.S. Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site The Nevada Test Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the City of Las Vegas, near . . L.A.-based Northrop is the managing partner of the joint venture, which also includes three other entities. Work on the contract will begin on April 1. Under the agreement, 3,000 employees of the venture will manage, operate and provide infrastructure support at the facility near Las Vegas, as well as five other satellite and laboratory locations. Work will include managing the department's nuclear explosives safety-team, which supports efforts to prevent or slow the spread of nuclear weapons, while bolstering its counterterrorism coun·ter·ter·ror adj. Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons. n. Action or strategy intended to counteract or suppress terrorism. mission. The contract will also support hazardous chemical spill chemical spill Public health An inadvertent release of a liquid chemical regarded as hazardous to human health which in a workplace is identified with hazardous materials labels. See Material Safety Data Sheets. testing, emergency response training and conventional weapons testing. |
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