The Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) has re-elected Huntington Ingalls Industries nuclear and environmental group President Michael Lempke as chairman of its Board of Directors for another year, according to a Friday statement.
Sandra Fairchild, project services and support director of Energy Department Savannah River Site cleanup contractor Savannah River Remediation, was elected vice chair of the organization that represents 112 DOE contractors. Morgan Smith, president and CEO of Consolidated Nuclear Security, which runs the Pantex Plant in Texas and the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex in Tennessee, was elected vice chair-elect
Five executives were also re-elected to the board during virtual meetings last week. They are: Lempke, Kelly Beierschmitt, deputy director operations of DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico; Moses Jaraysi, vice president of environmental program for CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation, cleanup contractor at the Hanford Site in Washington state; David (D.J.) Johnson, vice president federal solutions of Honeywell Federal Solutions; and Greg Meyer, senior vice president for operations at Fluor Federal Services.
Tom Gioconda, former deputy director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, was also elected. Gioconda has previously served on the board.
EFCOG is a volunteer organization led by contractor managers from both DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). This spring it, along with other interest groups, successfully pushed Congress for paid leave for contractor employees not allowed to report to their worksites due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The board vote evidently occurred during the organization’s annual meeting, which ended Wednesday and occurred online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
