George Rael, a longtime Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) official, has joined Longenecker & Associates as a project manager at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico effective this week.
Longenecker is a subcontractor to Triad National Security, which on Nov. 1 took over as the NNSA’s management and operations contractor at the nuclear-weapon laboratory. Triad is a venture comprised of Battelle, Texas A&M University, and the University of California.
Rael, who retired from the Energy Department in 2014, held several senior posts at the NNSA’s Los Alamos Field Office, most recently assistant manager for national security missions. Prior to that, he was assistant manager for NNSA’s environmental projects’ office at LANL.
Las Vegas-based Longenecker & Associates will provide Triad with management support for capital projects, quality assurance, and other operations.
Longenecker is also a contractor and quality assurance subcontractor to Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, which took over in April as legacy cleanup contractor at LANL. Rael, an engineer, will also work in coordination with L&A’s existing contract staff for N3B.
Longenecker is woman-owned small business, founded in 1989, which holds a number of subcontracts around the DOE weapons complex. This includes work at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, according to its website.
