Another member of the brain trust for former assistant energy secretary for environmental management Anne Marie White is rumored to be on the move.
The head of corporate services at the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), Paul Bosco, is apparently leaving his current post to take another position at the agency, two industry sources said in the past week.
As associate principal deputy assistant secretary for corporate services, Bosco oversees business functions such as workforce management and information systems at the $7 billion-plus nuclear cleanup office. He will be leaving by the end of the month to take a DOE post outside the Environmental Management office, the sources said.
Bosco joined EM in October 2018 after serving as director of DOE’s Office of Project Management. A U.S. Navy veteran, Bosco has been with the Energy Department since 2011, according to his online biography.
The sources did not know what position Bosco is taking. The Energy Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
One of the sources also said EM Chief of Staff Darcey Bolin, who joined the Energy Department in October 2018 as a senior adviser to White after serving as a program director at Jacobs subsidiary CH2M, could also soon take another post within the agency. Bolin worked in the corporate world from 2000 through 2018, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Bosco and Bolin were among the top members of the leadership team for White, who led the Environmental Management office from March 2018 until resigning on June 14 following a reported disagreement with Energy Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar on how to address potential off-site radioactive contamination from the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. Mark Gilbertson, a career federal employee who served as White’s No. 2, was reassigned as director of the DOE’s Laboratory Operations Board.
Concurrent with Anne White’s departure, William “Ike” White was selected to lead the office as a senior adviser to Dabbar for environmental management. Ike White has held senior management jobs at the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Carlsbad Field Office Manager Todd Shrader replaced Gilbertson as the No. 2 official at nuclear cleanup. The Energy Department has yet to update its April organizational chart for EM, which still lists Anne White and Gilbertson in the top jobs.
