Two vice presidents at a Leidos-led joint venture in charge of overseeing workaday operations at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site are retiring.
In a post last week on LinkedIn, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) said two executives, each with more than 35 years of experience at the former plutonium production site, are retiring.
Darci Teel, HMIS’ vice president of mission assurance, is retiring after 35 years. Likewise, Brian Von Bargen, vice president of interface & integration services, is retiring after more than 37 years, HMIS said.
Teel’s work at Hanford ranged from flying around Hanford in a helicopter while director of the pesticide program to participating on the team that won the bid for the HMIS contract, HMIS said in the Wednesday LinkedIn post. Teel has also previously worked as a regulator for the Washington state Department of Ecology, HMIS said.
Von Bargen was also on the proposal team that helped Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions team win the $4-billion Hanford landlord contract in 2020. HMIS is made up of Leidos, Centerra and Parsons. It succeeded another Leidos-led venture, Mission Support Alliance, as the contractor in charge of overseeing roads, grounds, security and other work at the Hanford Site.
The president of HMIS recently left to take the top job with the environmental prime at Hanford and Hanford Mission appointed Amy Basche, its chief operations officer, as its acting president.
