The National Nuclear Security Administration was recently searching for a new director for its office of enterprise project management, according to a want-ad posted on the federal government’s official recruiting website.
According to the listing, the agency conducted interviews only for a month, from Jan. 21 to Feb. 22.
The current occupant of the office — charged with writing policy for agency-wide acquisitions programs and liaising with Capitol Hill about the procurement of NNSA’s flagship, decade-spanning, multi-billion-dollar management and operations contracts for major nuclear weapon sites — is Cameron Manning.
Manning has decided to retire, an NNSA spokesperson wrote Monday in an email. He has been with the NNSA since January 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile, and had not left the agency as of Monday, the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, NNSA is bracing for more churn this summer in its D.C.-based acquisitions shop.
Robert Raines, NNSA’s associate administrator for acquisition and project management and the head of the headquarters procurement operations, told Administrator Jill Hruby that he plans to retire from the agency in June.
The turnover at the senior ranks at the 11 year-old acquisition and project management office hit the NNSA in the middle of a major protest over the agency’s November award of the next big management and operations contract for the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
