BWXT Announces $2.1 Billion in Contracts for Naval Nuclear Reactor Components
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – Feb. 19, 2025) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) today announced the award of U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts totaling approximately $2.1 billion for the manufacture of reactor components. Naval nuclear reactor component manufacturing and material procurement activities for Columbia and Virginia class submarines, as well as Ford class aircraft carriers, […]
BWXT to Acquire L3Harris’ A.O.T. Business to Expand Special Materials Portfolio
(LYNCHBURG, Va. and MELBOURNE, Fla. – Nov. 4, 2024) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) and L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LHX) today announced the signing of a purchase agreement for BWXT to acquire L3Harris’ Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, Inc. (A.O.T.) business for approximately $100 million. A.O.T. is a leading provider of advanced specialty materials, fabrication and […]
BWXT Names Howard B. Markle II Vice President and General Manager of Nuclear Operations Group—Lynchburg
(LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA – Nov. 1, 2024) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) announced today that Howard B. Markle II has been named vice president and general manager of the BWXT Nuclear Operations Group – Lynchburg facility. “Howard’s extensive experience in shipbuilding, program management and continuous improvement will be essential to our largest manufacturing site as we […]
BWXT Opens Welding Program at Mount Vernon High School
(MOUNT VERNON, Ind. – Oct. 24, 2024) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) today announced the opening of the John D. Haynes School of Welding Technology at Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon, Indiana. The company, along with the U.S. Navy and the BlueForge Alliance, have invested $500,000 into the new school to help […]
BWXT Names Gary D. Camper President of Nuclear Operations Group Subsidiary
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – Sept. 3, 2024) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that Gary D. Camper has been appointed president of BWXT Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (NOG) effective Sept. 1, 2024. In this role, Camper will lead more than 5,000 employees at five sites across four states in their mission to manufacture nuclear […]
UK Space Agency Awards Space Reactor Development Project to BWXT and Rolls-Royce
Award Is Part of Larger Teaming Agreement Between BWXT and Rolls-Royce for Future Collaboration (LYNCHBURG, Va. – April 8, 2024) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that it and Rolls-Royce have secured funding for Phase 2 of the UK Space Agency’s International Bilateral Fund (IBF). The funding enables strategic research collaborations within the […]
BWXT Selected as Nuclear Fuel and Component Manufacturer for Air Force Research Laboratory’s JETSON Program
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – November 8, 2023) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) today announced that it has been selected as the nuclear fuel and components manufacturer for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) high power mission application program, which will mature high-power nuclear electric power and propulsion technologies and […]
BWXT Announces $300 Million Contract for Naval Nuclear Reactor Fuel
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – October 24, 2023) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) today announced the award of a U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contract totaling approximately $300 million for the manufacture of naval nuclear reactor fuel. Under this contract, BWXT subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., located in Erwin, Tennessee, will manufacture and deliver fuel for […]
BWXT to Provide Nuclear Reactor Engine and Fuel for DARPA Space Project
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – July 26, 2023) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) today announced that its reactor and fuel will be key components in the world’s first demonstration spacecraft using nuclear thermal propulsion. Working as part of a team led by Lockheed Martin, BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC will complete final design of the nuclear reactor, […]
BWXT Celebrates Deployment of USS Gerald R. Ford
(LYNCHBURG, Va. – May 4, 2023) – BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) and its employees are celebrating the deployment of the nuclear-powered USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). BWXT congratulates the U.S. Navy on the deployment of the Gerald R. Ford and is proud to have manufactured the nuclear reactors. As the U.S. Navy has […]
