BWX Technologies said Thursday that it has selected Kenneth Camplin as the new president of the company’s Nuclear Services Group, a role Camplin has filled on an acting basis since last December.
Camplin, previously chief business development officer for BWXT, assumed the helm of the Nuclear Service Group after Bill Fox left BWXT to pursue other opportunities, company spokesman Jud Simmons said by email.
As group president Camplin leads BWXT’s commercial nuclear and government technical services segments. That includes overseeing the company’s work for the Department of Energy and its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration. Camplin also manages BWXT nuclear energy services in the United States.
The Nuclear Services Group segment delivered $27.5 million in revenue in the third quarter of 2017, which compares to about $28.76 million in revenue for the same period of 2016.
Camplin will continue to guide business development and serve on the boards of several BWXT joint ventures, including those active within the DOE complex. He serves on boards or committees managing cleanup projects at DOE sites including the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio.
BWXT leads a joint venture that in October won a $4.7 billion contract for liquid waste management at DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The award is the subject of protests by losing bidders at the Government Accountability Office.
BWXT is also part of the teams that manage the NNSA’s Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapon laboratories. It has suggested, but not confirmed, its interest in the new Los Alamos management and operations contract now out for bid.
“Under his leadership, NSG has performed exceptionally well in all areas, including winning several environmental management contract awards and extensions, developing a new business line in nuclear thermal propulsion, and improving technical services operations across the board,” BWXT CEO Rex Geveden said in a news release.
Camplin has served in engineering and management roles while working at BWXT, and has helped support various DOE and national security missions during his 30-year career with the company. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia, and a master’s of business administration from Loyola University of Chicago. He also has a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
