Longenecker & Associates, the Las Vegas-based Energy Department subcontractor, has added a former Honeywell executive and a retired Air Force officer to its advisory board.
The new members are retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Sandra Finan, now a consultant based in Spokane, Wash.; and ex-Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies (FM&T) President Chris Gentile, Longenecker said in a Nov. 21 news release.
Finan served 34 years in the Air Force in before retiring in June 2017. She held posts including commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
Finan also worked for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) from January 2011 to January 2013, including a stint as acting chief of defense nuclear security. While at the NNSA, Finan helped lead a review of the 2012 incident in which a nun and two other anti-nuclear protestors got inside security fences at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee.
Gentile’s positions included project manager for Honeywell at the NNSA’s Kansas City National Security Campus, which makes most of the non-nuclear parts that go into the U.S. nuclear stockpile. He retired from Honeywell in early 2016 as president of its FM&T section.
“As our work supporting the vital missions of NNSA expands, we are making it a priority to deepen our pool of resources to ensure the highest levels of performance on our projects,” L&A CEO Bonnie Longenecker said in the press release.
The L&A website lists 20 members of the company’s advisory board, not including Finan. The two new members are not replacing any departing board members, but are new additions. The board terms are for two years each.
Longenecker & Associates is a subcontractor for Triad National Security, the new management and operations contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The company is also a subcontractor to Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, which holds the legacy cleanup contract at LANL. Longenecker also has NNSA business at Sandia National Laboratories in California and New Mexico, and the Nevada National Security Site.
