Las Vegas-based Longenecker & Associates said Tuesday it has hired nuclear industry veteran Mike Briggs to the newly created post of senior program manager for operational support.
Briggs, who has worked on major projects within the Energy Department complex, will oversee L&A’s operational support business, which includes training, nuclear safety, and radiation protection.
“As L&A grows, we are increasingly being called upon to support nuclear operations and provide nuclear safety expertise to key DOE and [National Nuclear Security Administration] NNSA projects,” CEO Bonnie Longenecker said in a news release. “Mike is a proven leader in this area and we are proud to have him as part of our team.”
Briggs spent more than a decade with Virginia-based BWX Technologies and its prior corporate entities. He helped oversee safety, industrial hygiene, and radiation protection at Nuclear Waste Partnership, DOE’s prime contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Briggs also held management positions for cleanup of DOE’s Paducah Site in Kentucky and BWXT’s Nuclear Fuel Services business. Prior to BWXT, he worked for BNFL at the Sellafield nuclear site in the United Kingdom, among other positions in the United States and abroad.
Longenecker & Associates was recently named by Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) as a key subcontractor on the legacy nuclear cleanup award at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico.
The firm was also on the team that briefly in summer 2016 secured the contract for management of the Nevada National Security Site. The contract was quickly revoked when it was determined the contractor had been transferred from Lockheed to Leidos without notifying DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration. A Honeywell-led venture subsequently took the contract. Longenecker, though, is part of the security team for the Nevada facility.
Separately, Clemson University and DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory, both in South Carolina, said Wednesday that Clemson nuclear environmental engineering professor Brian Powell will fill a joint faculty post for research into radioactive waste disposal and environmental remediation. The joint appointment should increase cooperation between Clemson and Savannah River, the two organizations said in a press release.
