Decision on Kansas City Plant Contract Coming ‘Very Soon,’ NNSA Chief Says

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With about 11 months left before Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies’ contract to run the NationalrnNuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus expires, NNSA Administrator Frank Klotzrnsaid this week that an announcement on the contract will come “very soon.” Honeywell’s contract to run the plantrnexpires Sept. 30, 2015, and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in August that he hoped a decision on whether orrnnot to provide an extension would be made a year in advance of the contract’s expiration, but gave few hintsrnabout plans for the contract. Klotz followed suit at a Defense Writers Group event this week, disclosing no detailsrnabout whether NNSA plans to extend Honeywell’s contract or open up the first major management and operatingrncontract procurement since Y-12/Pantex. “You can expect an announcement on Kansas City very soon, and you’llrnhave to wait until the announcement to hear what it will have to say,” Klotz said.