March 17, 2014

MORE DETAILS EMERGE ON LEADERSHIP OF Y-12/PANTEX BIDDERS

By ExchangeMonitor

With bids on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Y-12/Pantex management and operating contract in and oral presentations completed, the leadership of the teams vying for the lucrative contract is starting to become more clear. NW&M Monitor has learned that Babcock & Wilcox Chief Operating Officer Mary Pat Salomone is heading up the company’s bid to retain its management stake at Y-12 and Pantex, while Bechtel executive and current Y-12 Deputy General Manager Jim Haynes is heading up a Bechtel-led bid for the contract. Rounding out the leadership of the three bidders, former Pantex general manager and current Fluor executive Greg Meyer is leading his company’s push for the contract. B&W is teamed with URS, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell, while Bechtel is teamed with Lockheed Martin and ATK and Fluor is teamed with Jacobs and Pro2Serve.

Salomone has been with B&W or its subsidiary Marine Mechanical Corporation for 30 years, and took over as the company’s COO in January of 2010. She served as the President and CEO of Marine Mechanical from 2001 through 2007, and has experience in B&W’s Power Generation and Nuclear Operations groups. Before taking over as one of two deputy general managers at B&W Y-12, Haynes served as the general manager of Latin America for Bechtel’s Mining and Metals line, and he has also worked in the company’s defense and space business sectors as well as its civil infrastructure line. A nuclear Navy veteran, Meyer led B&W Pantex from 2008 until March of 2010 when he left B&W for a senior position at Fluor reporting directly to Fluor Government Group President Bruce Stanski.

NW&M Monitor has also learned that the No. 2 spot on the Bechtel-Lockheed Martin-ATK bid has been filled by Bechtel executive Jim Allen, a nuclear Navy veteran who helped shepherd the merger of Bettis and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratories for Bechtel in 2008.

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