Scott Gibbs is returning to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico more than three years after retiring from a senior management position at the Department of Energy facility.
Gibbs will be back at LANL on Sept. 5 as deputy director for mission assurance, lab spokesman Matthew Nerzig said by email Monday.
Gibbs’ return is intended “to strengthen and sustain our ongoing efforts to reduce and manage risk across the laboratory,” Nerzig wrote.
Gibbs previously spent parts of 30 years at LANL in various roles, most recently as associate director for threat identification and response. He left the lab in May 2014 for what turned out to be a brief retirement.
Los Alamos National Security is working on what is supposed to be the final year or so of a laboratory management and operations pact with DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration. Awarded in 2006, the deal is worth about $2 billion a year. The consortium’s contract expires Sept. 30, 2018, and DOE is expected to release a final solicitation for a follow-on contract in September.
Los Alamos National Security is a partnership led by the University of California and Bechtel National, with junior partners AECOM and BWX Technologies. The university, which prior to 2006 was the lab’s sole management prime, has indicated it is likely to pursue the new contract.
