A new president has been named for Hanford Site support services provider Mission Support Alliance (MSA) as the current president, Bill Johnson, moves on to a corporate job at Leidos.
Johnson has served as MSA president since early 2015 and will leave Hanford on Oct. 16, according to a message he sent to employees Thursday. His new position at Reston, Va.-based Leidos, which operates Mission Support Alliance with Jacobs and Centerra Group, had not been made public Thursday.
MSA Chief Operating Officer Bob Wilkinson will replace Johnson as president.
“Bob has more than 20 years of experience at Hanford in all aspects of operations,” Johnson said in the employee message. Wilkinson’s experience includes work in the Hanford waste storage tank farms, waste site remediation, waste packaging and remediation, operating nuclear facilities, project management, environmental compliance, construction management, engineering, emergency response, radiological control, and all phases of project execution from startup to commissioning, Johnson said.
Wilkinson was named chief operations officer for MSA in February 2015, shortly after Johnson was named president. He previously was manager of environment, safety, health, and quality at Washington River Protection Solutions, the Hanford tank farm contractor. He also had been acting chief operations officer and manager of base operations for the tank farm contractor.
Mission Support Alliance has a 10-year contract valued at about $3 billion that expires May 25, 2019. It provides site-wide services at Hanford for DOE and the other contractors, including security, fire protection, emergency response, utilities, fleet and road maintenance, and information technology. It also provides portfolio management to help DOE make informed decisions on environmental cleanup work across the site.
