Bill Condon became the lead for Amentum’s Nuclear & Environment Business, replacing the recently promoted Jim Blankenhorn, and will quarterback the company’s pursuit of Department of Energy defense-nuclear site contracts, the closely held Germantown, Md., group announced.
A longtime URS man who remained with the company through the AECOM years, Condon has more than 30 years experience in nuclear cleanup and operations, including at the Hanford site in Washington state and at Sellafield in the United Kingdom, according to a company press release last week.
Amentum recently made Blankenhorn the head of the company’ s Technical Services business, which involves engineering, design and operation of environmental projects for domestic and international governmental customers.
Among his recent assignments, Blankenhorn was the recovery manager at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s management and operations contractor from 2014 to 2017, when the Department of Energy’s only deep-underground repository for transuranic waste was clawing back from a pair of accidents that shut the mine down and backed up waste disposal across the old weapons complex for about three years.
