Staff Reports
NS&D Monitor
10/10/2014
Three months into its management-and-operating role at the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons facilities, Consolidated Nuclear Security’s leadership team continues to undergo changes. Janet Hunt, the human resources manager and architect of the contractor’s strategy on a range of personnel issues, is leaving the CNS team to return to her parent company, Lockheed Martin, where she previously was human resources director for the Enterprise Operations. The CNS announcement was made internally Oct. 6.
Before leaving the Y-12/Pantex contractor, Hunt will work on a special project and report to Chief Operating Officer Morgan Smith, according to the announcement. Smith and Darrell Graddy, the vice president for mission support, thanked Hunt for her contributions. “For the last two-and-a-half years, Janet Hunt has worked diligently to develop the CNS Human Resources programs needed to get us started as a company,” Smith and Graddy said in a statement.
The leadership change will take place as CNS moves into the next phase of implementing the human resources plans at Y-12 and Pantex, they said. CNS indicated it would soon announce the new chief of human resources. Until that time, Diane Grooms will be acting in that role. “The change will allow Janet to focus on a number of key strategy initiatives important to CNS while Diane focuses on the day-to-day running of Human Resources,” the contractor’s statement said.
Will CNS be Penalized?
Hunt is not the first member of CNS’ management team to leave. Jim Allen, who had planned to be the company’s Chief Operating Officer, was replaced by Smith shortly before CNS took over management of the sites. CNS also switched out Pantex manager Dan Glenn for Michelle Reichert from its original bid. It’s unclear if CNS will be penalized for Hunt’s departure, but a clause in the company’s contract would appear to allow the National Nuclear Security Administration to take action due to the change.
The contract states that unless a change is approved in advance by the contracting officer, if any key personnel are “removed, replaced, or diverted by the Contractor for reasons under the Contractor’s control” in the first two years of the contract the company forfeits two years of the reimbursable annual salary, bonuses and relocation costs in fee for that position, which could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. “NNSA will evaluate Ms. Hunt’s departure in accordance with the provisions of the contract,” NNSA spokesman Steven Wyatt said. “No decisions have been made at this time.”
