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Defense and Space ManufacturingVirginia, United States1001-5000 Employees

BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT) is a defense and space-focused engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia. It operates across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom through 14 major sites and a substantial workforce. The company designs, manufactures, and services nuclear components and systems, including as the sole producer of naval nuclear reactors for U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers, and it supplies components, services, and fuel for the global civilian nuclear power industry. Through joint ventures, BWXT provides environmental restoration and operations management at DOE and NASA facilities, and its technology underpins medical radioisotope production and microreactor applications for defense and space.

The company is recognized as an innovator in defense and space manufacturing, with Defense News ranking BWXT among its Top 100 manufacturing and engineering innovators and reflecting a focus on safe, effective nuclear solutions across security, energy, environmental restoration, nuclear medicine, and space exploration. A recent development involves BWXT licensing its mPower small modular reactor technology to Applied Atomics, granting exclusive land-based rights to deploy the technology in the United States, Canada, and beyond.

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