The August doldrums in Washington weren’t quite as quiet as in past years, and there was plenty of news during the ExchangeMonitor’s annual publication break. As chronicled in the Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, here are a few stories we’ve been following.
Hanford Treats Over 2 Billion Gallons of Contaminated Groundwater in FY18
Workers at the Hanford Site in Washington state met the Department of Energy’s fiscal 2018 goal of treating 2.2 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater early, despite some downtime or limited operations at treatment plants to make improvements.
Contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. hit the goal nearly two months before the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year. It removed 90 tons of contaminants, according to DOE.
The improvements made to Hanford pump-and-treat plants will allow groundwater treatment to continue at a rate of 2.2 billion gallons a year, said Michael Cline, federal project director for soil and groundwater remediation at Hanford. The 580-square-mile former plutonium production complex has plumes of contaminated groundwater totaling 65 square miles. Since treatment began in the mid-1990s, about 19 billion gallons of groundwater have been treated and 435 tons of contaminants removed.
In the past 10 months, upgrades were made to the fluidized test bed reactor at Hanford’s largest and most sophisticated groundwater treatment plant, the 200 West Pump and Treat Facility. The central Hanford facility removes more than a half-dozen contaminants from groundwater, including carbon tetrachloride and uranium. Its fluidized test bed reactor is used to remove carbon tetrachloride and nitrates. The improvements should shorten the time it is down for maintenance, Cline said.
“We continually look for ways to make improvements and ensure our groundwater treatment network continues performing well,” he said.
Other improvements at the plant and five pump-and-treat facilities along the Columbia River included replacing filters with newer and more efficient filters and replacing polyvinyl chloride piping with stainless steel piping at stress points in the water treatment plants, Cline said. The five treatment facilities on the river remove hexavalent chromium from groundwater. The chemical was added to reactor cooling water to prevent corrosion.
Oak Ridge Security Contract Extended Until End of Year
The Energy Department has extended the contract for the current security provider for the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee through the end of the year.
After a bid protest against the follow-on contract, the Energy Department said Aug. 10 it intends to keep Reston, Va.-based National Strategic Protective Services on the job from Sept. 22 until Dec. 30. The firm currently provides security police and special response teams to protect Oak Ridge, and its employees already have the needed high-level security clearances for the work, DOE said.
“To attempt to do a short-term contract with anyone other than the incumbent could potentially disrupt the protection of the ORR to an extent that would put national security at risk,” DOE said in announcing its intent to do a sole-source contract modification.
National Strategic Protective Services, a joint venture of Triple Canopy and Securiguard, has provided protective force services at Oak Ridge since March 2013.
The company is responsible for protection of Oak Ridge Reservation sites including the East Tennessee Technology Park, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Joe L. Evins Federal Building, according to the NSPS website. Management could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
Trump Inks NDAA With Funding Limits on DOE Nuke, Cleanup
President Donald Trump on Aug. 13 signed the $717 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2019, officially setting budget limits for the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons and cleanup operations.
Trump did not mention either program during a signing ceremony before several hundred people at the U.S. Army’s Fort Drum in New York state.
Congress in recent weeks approved the compromise version of the separate House and Senate bills, which set spending ceilings and laid out policy guidelines for defense programs for the budget year starting Oct. 1. Both chambers passed the bill with overwhelming support: the House on July 26 by a vote of 359-54, followed by the Senate on Aug. 1 by a vote of 87-10.
The Energy Department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration is authorized to spend $15 billion under the measure, roughly in line with appropriations levels approved in the House and Senate.
The NDAA would allow the agency to spend $65 million to create a low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, by making modifications to certain existing W76 warheads. House and Senate appropriators have already separately agreed to provide the $65 million in 2019, but have yet to produce a unified DOE appropriations bill for Trump to sign.
The NDAA also authorizes $220 million for continued construction of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The Trump administration wants to cancel the project, intended to convert 34 metric tons of surplus plutonium into nuclear reactor fuel, and convert the facility to produce plutonium nuclear warhead cores.
The legislation also authorizes more than $5.5 billion in defense environmental cleanup funding for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, which accounts for most of its annual budget. The NDAA calls for prompt reporting to Congress following release of any airborne contamination at the Hanford Site in Washington state. It also includes language enabling the energy secretary to impose civil penalties on DOE contractors that run afoul of nuclear safety rules.
The DOE-funding appropriations bills passed by both chambers also call for spending in the neighborhood of $7 billion for DOE’s nuclear cleanup office.
The final version of the NDAA authorized no money to send high-level nuclear waste produced by U.S. defense programs to the planned Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada. The White House sought $30 million for defense nuclear waste disposal in fiscal 2019.
DOE Must Wait to Begin Filling Second Hanford Tunnel
The Department of Energy will not be allowed to start filling the second Hanford Site PUREX Plant tunnel storing radioactive waste until after the end of a public comment period mandated by Washington state.
In the wake of the partial collapse of the first PUREX storage tunnel in May 2017, DOE wants to use a concrete-like grout to stabilize the other tunnel. The federal agency asked Washington state in July for temporary authorization to start the work as soon as this week. That would circumvent a legal requirement for a state Department of Ecology public comment period prior to a change to DOE’s state permit for the treatment, storage, and disposal of dangerous waste at Hanford.
On Monday, Aug. 13, the state began a 45-day public comment period and told DOE it had denied its request to start grouting waste before the public comment period ended. However, it will allow DOE to begin setting up the equipment it would need for the process.
“We’re striking a balance between the public’s right to comment on this important cleanup decision and the need to secure the waste in the tunnel,” said Alex Smith, manager of Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program, a Hanford regulator.
The decision came despite a letter from the mayors of four cities near Hanford – Richland, Kennewick, Pasco, and West Richland – urging the state to allow grouting to proceed. Waiting until after the state holds public meetings “could potentially delay, as much as a year, the action recommended by the panel of experts, which will reduce the risk to our region of a potentially catastrophic tunnel collapse,” the mayors said in their July 31 letter.
The Energy Department had requested temporary authorization to start filling the 1,700-foot-long, 54-year-old tunnel with grout to allow all or most of the work to be done before the worst of the winter weather turns roads icy. The project will require an estimated 5,000 truckloads of grout.
Public comments may be submitted at http://wt.ecology.commentinput.com/?id=7mped. Public meetings are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Richland Public Library and 6:30 p.m. Sept. 5 at the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture.
Small Fire Ignites at Hanford Lab
The 222-S Laboratory at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state was evacuated and two workers taken to a hospital on Thursday after a small fire.
A piece of analytical equipment caught fire shortly before noon, according to Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), which operates the lab where Wastren Advantage analyzes samples of radioactive waste stored at Hanford.
A worker doused the fire with a hand-held fire extinguisher. The Hanford Fire Department was called and confirmed the fire was out. Surveys showed the incident produced no radiological contamination, according to WRPS.
About 250 lab employees were evacuated during the incident, with all workers accounted for at 12:11 p.m. One employee was taken to the hospital in nearby Richland with symptoms of heat stress and later reported respiratory irritation. A second employee with respiratory symptoms also was taken to the Richland hospital. Both were released later that day and approved to return to work.
The temperature reached a high of 108 degrees at Hanford on Thursday, and workers were taken to air-conditioned office buildings to wait until the lab reopened at 3:15 p.m. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The 70,000-square-foot 222-S Laboratory in central Hanford conducts organic, inorganic, and radiochemistry analyses. The analyses focus on tank waste, including evaluating waste compatibility for tank-to-tank transfers, for corrosion rate and corrosion inhibition studies, and to prepare for 242-A Evaporator campaigns to reduce liquid waste in double-shell tanks.
In all, Hanford houses about 56 million gallons of waste in underground tanks, a byproduct of decades of plutonium production for the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
$50M Venture to Speed Up SRS Cleanup at Standstill
A $50 million project intended to reduce the cost and time of nuclear cleanup at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site is at a standstill due to funding disagreements between the federal government and local stakeholders in South Carolina.
The Aiken Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a group spearheaded by a local economic development group, is heading up the effort in the city of Aiken, near Savannah River. But the team disagrees with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on how best to fund the project.
Still, the Energy Department and its partners remain supportive of the advanced manufacturing center (AMC), said Will Williams, a member of the Aiken group. The stakeholder organization is working with DOE and its Savannah River National Laboratory to build the 70,000-square-foot facility near the local campus of the University of South Carolina.
The facility would employ about 110 workers and house chemistry labs, engineering fabrication labs, and high bay and industrial work space. Construction will be funded through DOE, which serves as a public partner, and the facility would be leased by the SRS management and operations contractor, which also runs the lab. Current contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) is on the job through July 31, 2019.
Williams said last week there has been little movement on the project in the past year or so. He said the Office of Management and Budget believes the facility would require a capital lease, meaning DOE would provide the entire $45 million to $50 million up front. However, the partnership is pushing for an operating lease, which would only require an annual expenditure of $2.5 million.
“While we have continued to advocate for the project both from our office and our lobbying efforts, the project remains mired in DC administrivia,” Williams said via email. “That is where we remain.”
The Energy Department has largely remained silent on the project for the last two years, and has not responded to Weapons Complex Morning Briefing’s inquiries.
Centrus Winds Down Centrifuge Project D&D, Reports Higher Net Loss in 2Q
Maryland-based nuclear fuel provider Centrus Energy is working toward termination of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission license for its American Centrifuge Lead Cascade demonstration project at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio.
Most decontamination and decommissioning at the site was finished by June 30, Centrus said in a 10-Q quarterly report filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Centrus has previously said all plant equipment from the 120-machine cascade had been removed.
The company has not publicly cited the cost of cleanup to date, Centrus spokesman Jeremy Derryberry said by email Aug. 13. Centrus carried $38.6 million of accrued liability for the work at the end of 2017, and $1 million as of its second-quarter earnings report, which covers a three-month period ending June 30. The company has also generated a $5.9 million credit by relying less than expected on outside contractors for decommissioning. Accrual liability basically tracks a future financial obligation.
Separately, NRC staff recently issued a finding of no significant impact regarding potential environmental effects of the decommissioning plan. This completes the National Environmental Policy Act review process for the action, said NRC spokesman David McIntyre. The NRC must still approve termination of the license for the Centrus facility, he added.
Centrus spent $5.4 million on license and decommissioning-related costs during the second quarter and $13.4 million during the first six month of 2018. The company began cleanup in 2016, after the Energy Department declined to continue funding the advanced uranium enrichment demonstration. Centrus has been using surety bonds as financial assurance.
Centrus reported a net loss of $26.1 million, or $3.08 per common share, for the latest earnings period. That compared to a $22.4 million loss, $2.69 per common share, during the same period one year earlier.
It also suffered a net loss of $51.1 million for the first half of 2018, compared to $14.8 million a year ago, Centrus said in an earnings report Wednesday.
Energy Department Issues RFI on Lab Facilities Deactivation Work
The Energy Department is doing early planning on a potential solicitation for teardown and removal of facilities at sites including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York state.
The department’s Office of Environmental Management on Aug. 9 issued a request for information (RFI)/sources sought notice for deactivation, decommissioning, and removal services.
Cleanup of facilities and waste would be done for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and DOE Office of Science at various locations around the nation. A DOE press release specifically cited the Livermore and Brookhaven labs, but indicated others could be included in a future contract.
Submissions are due by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Aug. 30. DOE Contracting Officer Kimberly Tate can be reached at [email protected].
The Energy Department is asking potential contractors to discuss their experience conducting teardown and removal work over the past five years, along with their expertise with complicated pension and benefit programs. The feedback will be a resource for market research intended to identify qualified contractors, minimize barriers to entry, examine small business capabilities, and reduce risk.
There is no performance work statement yet as planning is still in the early stages, DOE said. “The anticipated number of procurements, types of contracts, periods of performance, amount of funding, and set aside possibilities are to be determined,” according to the RFI.
Treated Savannah River Waste Might be Reclassified, Sent to WIPP
The U.S. Department of Energy might reclassify some treated liquid waste from the Savannah River Site, along with equipment used to process the waste, and send the materials to a permanent repository in New Mexico, according to a July 30 letter that accepts a recommendation from the Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) for the South Carolina facility.
In the letter, SRS Manager Michael Budney told board Chairman Gil Allensworth that officials at department headquarters are considering revising DOE Order 435.1, which covers radioactive waste management.
Budney said the federal agency is looking into revising its definition of high-level radioactive waste — particularly radioactive material left by reactions that occur inside nuclear reactors. Doing so would give DOE the ability to reclassify the Savannah River material as transuranic waste, making it suitable for permanent storage at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M.
Transuranic waste is any material contaminated with radioactive elements during activities such as processing of spent reactor fuel or nuclear weapons production. Under federal law, WIPP is the designated repository for transuranic waste from the DOE complex.
Approved in January by the advisory board, the recommendation asks the Energy Department to reclassify an unspecified amount of waste and two retired melters that are stored at the site near Aiken, S.C. All told, SRS houses roughly 35 million gallons of radioactive high-level waste, a byproduct of Cold War nuclear weapons operations, in more than 40 aging underground tanks. The melters at the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) mix the waste with a material that removes contamination, then pour the mixture into canisters for interim storage on site.
The CAB did not specify how many canisters should be sent to WIPP, not did Budney’s letter. But he did tell Allensworth, “A more risk-based approach could potentially provide more cost-effective and timely alternatives to the current disposal path for the items in your recommendation. DOE-SR will provide updates to the CAB as significant developments occur.”
AECOM Sets Revenue Record in Quarter
Department of Energy contractor AECOM reported a 13-percent rise in revenue in its latest quarter, to $5.1 billion from $4.6 billion a year ago, setting a new quarterly record for the company.
Net income for AECOM’s fiscal third quarter came in at $61 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, down from the year-ago figures of $101 million and $0.64.
The Los Angeles-based engineering and infrastructure company reported a total backlog of $54 billion for the first nine months of fiscal 2018, 16 percent more than the $46 billion reported for the first nine months of fiscal 2017.
AECOM’s Management Services segment, which manages its Energy Department contracts, recorded $936 million in revenue during the quarter, compared to $856 million a year ago. The business pulled in $2.7 billion in revenue for the nine months ending June 30, more than the roughly $2.5 billion for the same stretch of 2017.
Operating income from Management Services for the recent quarter was $66 million, basically flat with the same time last year.
AECOM’s Construction Services division, which includes North American energy projects and nuclear reactor decommissioning, reported $2.1 billion in revenue for the most recent quarter, up from $1.84 billion a year ago. Construction Services recorded revenue of $6.1 billion for the nine months ended June 30, rising from $5.3 billion on a year-over-year basis.
The business’ operating income for the quarter was $9.3 million, down from $33.2 million in the year-ago quarter.
The team of AECOM and EnergySolutions has a 10-year, $1 billion decommissioning management contract for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in San Diego County, Calif.
For the Energy Department, AECOM leads Nuclear Waste Partnership, prime contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico; URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), cleanup contractor for the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee; and Savannah River Remediation, which through the end of March 2019 holds the liquid waste management contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Perma-Fix Net Income Continues to Rise
Perma-Fix Environmental Services’ net income for the second quarter of 2018 outstripped the number for both the preceding earnings period and the same quarter of last year.
The Atlanta-based waste management company on Wednesday reported $610,000 ($0.05 per share) in net income attributable to common stockholders for the period ended June 30. It was the second consecutive positive showing, rising from $136,000 ($0.01 per share) in the first quarter and posting a significant turnaround from a $1.2 million ($0.10 per share) net loss in second-quarter 2017.
The year-over-year improvement was driven by “a net gain of approximately $1.6 million resulting from the exchange of the Series B Preferred Stock of the Company’s M&EC subsidiary for the Company’s Common Stock in a private placement exchange offer, which was consummated on May 30, 2018,” according to Perma-Fix’s earnings release.
Company-wide revenue also rose, from $12.7 million in second-quarter 2017 to $13.2 million this year. Quarterly gross profit was impaired by $1.2 million in expenses connected to the forthcoming closure of Perma-Fix’s Materials and Energy Corp. facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.: dropping from $2.4 million last year to an even $2 million in 2018.
Perma-Fix’s services business, which encompasses operations ranging from radiological safety to radioactive materials management, recorded $4 million in revenue, up from $3.1 million in the prior year. Revenue in the treatment segment, covering four waste processing plants, dropped from $9.6 million to $9.2 million. That was largely the result of reduced waste volume and pressure on pricing due to the mix of waste being treated, management said.
“We have worked hard to increase our bidding activity and proposal quality within the Services Segment and we expect to see the results of these initiatives in the next two quarters. Heading into the second half of the year, we remain optimistic for the balance of 2018 based on our current sales pipeline and the improved Department of Energy (DOE) budget,” Perma-Fix President and CEO Mark Duff said in the release. “Through several recent facility upgrades and technology deployments, we believe Perma-Fix is positioned in the future to support new procurements within the DOE as well as providing continued support to the Test Bed Initiative at Hanford.”
Energy Department Taking Comment on Nuclear Safety
The Energy Department is taking public comment until Oct. 9 on a proposal to revise certain regulations for nuclear safety management across its facilities, according to a notice of proposed rulemaking published Aug. 8 in the Federal Register.
“The proposed revisions reflect the experience gained in the implementations of the regulations over the past seventeen years,” according to the notice from DOE’s Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security. Aspects of the Nuclear Safety Management rule, governing DOE and its contractors, were implemented between 1994 and 2001.
The regulations cover facilities owned or leased by the Department of Energy where radioactive work takes place, such as research, testing, disassembly of equipment, or transporting nuclear material.
The Energy Department wants a successor document with “up-to-date research, data and DOE experience with implementation,” the Federal Register notice says. That would involve improved ways to categorize hazards, approve safety documentation, and approach “the unreviewed safety question process,” now defined by a four-part method including accident probability.
Public meetings are scheduled near DOE sites during September:
- Sept. 6 at the Albuquerque Marriott in Albuquerque, N.M.;
- Sept. 25 at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Pollard Technical Conference Center, in Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and,
- Sept. 27 at Business and Education Building at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, in Aiken, S.C.
The DOE contact for the rulemaking is Garrett Smith with the Office of Nuclear Safety, at [email protected].
The proposed notice of rulemaking passes muster with regulatory reform executive orders issued by President Donald Trump, DOE said in the 16-page document. Trump issued orders in January and February 2017 calling for managing cost of government regulation, and to identify rules in need of updating or elimination. The proposed DOE rule seeks to remove provisions “considered duplicative or of little value,” according to the Federal Register notice.
DOE Cleanup Projects Boost Jacobs’ Income in Latest Quarter
Jacobs Engineering subsidiary CH2M boosted the parent company’s bottom line in its latest quarter thanks to enhancements in ongoing nuclear cleanup projects for the Department of Energy, Jacobs Chairman and CEO Steve Demetriou said Aug. 6.
Jacobs reported net earnings of $150 million ($1.05 per share) for the quarter ended June 30, the third quarter of the company’s fiscal 2018. That was up 42 percent from $89 million (0.74 per share) in the same period a year ago. Revenue over that period rose from $2.5 billion to $4.2 billion.
Dallas-based Jacobs completed its $3.27 billion acquisition of Colorado-based CH2M in December 2017.
During recent months the company increased its scope of environmental remediation at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state, Demetriou said during the company’s quarterly earnings call with financial analysts. The company has also received a one-year extension on its contract for environmental remediation of the Central Plateau Remediation at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
The Department of Energy said in June it planned to extend the 10-year, $4.5 billion Hanford Site Plateau Remediation Contract held by CH2M through the end of September 2019. The DOE has not revealed the value of the contract extension. CH2M had also previously gotten $1.3 billion of economic stimulus work during the administration of President Barack Obama. The actual extension had not occurred as of last Thursday, according to a DOE spokesperson.
Jacobs spokespeople could not immediately be reached Monday for more detail on the expanded scope of work at West Valley, where CH2M Hill BWXT has a $542 million cleanup contract through March 2020.
Contracts with the Energy Department are within Jacobs’ Aerospace, Technology, Environmental, and Nuclear business segment. The business brought in roughly $1.2 billion in revenue during the recently completed quarter, compared with $610 million during the same quarter in fiscal 2017. Operating profit spiked from $49 million to $89 million.
“The combination of Jacobs and CH2M is surpassing our expectations,” Demetriou said.
Jacobs expects its earnings for fiscal 2018 will be at the high end of its previously announced target of $4 to $4.40 of adjusted earnings per share.
SRS Paramilitary Draft RFP Could be Issued This Summer
The Energy Department could issue a draft request for proposals this month for a paramilitary security services contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, according to a recently updated list of major procurements from DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM).
The final RFP for the contract, forecast to be worth $1 billion to $3 billion, is expected to go out by the end of this calendar year, the schedule shows. Centerra-SRS holds the current 10-year, $1 billion contract, which expires on Oct. 7, 2019.
The company has indicated it expects to compete for a subsequent contract at the 310-square-mile site, which is home to DOE nuclear weapons and environmental remediation programs, along with the Savannah River National Laboratory. The agreement would include safeguarding assets overseen by the Environmental Management office and DOE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
About three dozen people participated in an industry day last August in Augusta, Ga., to learn more about the potential contract. The Energy Department also received 35 questions last year in response to a request for information.
During a procurement presentation July 31 in Washington, D.C., Norbert Doyle, EM deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and project management, stressed the paramilitary nature of the contract, which extends well beyond providing security guards. The Energy Department has indicated the work involves law enforcement at SRS, protective forces, canine handlers for explosive detection, and 24/7 staffing of perimeter barricades.
Hanford Contractor VP Reaches Deal on DOJ Kickback Case
A vice president for Hanford support services contractor Mission Support Alliance has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to pay $124,440 to settle allegations of illegal kickbacks.
Richard A. Olsen, the vice president of finance, was accused of taking at least $41,480 from Lockheed Martin between March 1, 2010, and Feb. 21, 2012. His attorney, Mark Bartlett, said Olsen did not admit wrongdoing and settled civil allegations to put an end to a long-term federal investigation.
As part of the settlement agreement signed Aug. 6, Olsen will continue to cooperate with a continuing probe of alleged fraud, including submitting to an in-person interview with special agents of the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General, the Department of Justice said.
Olsen was an employee of Lockheed Martin on loan to Mission Support Alliance as its chief financial officer when he improperly obtained or rewarded favorable treatment for Lockheed Martin, the Department of Justice alleged. Lockheed Martin was then the primary owner of Mission Support Alliance, and a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin held a subcontract to provide information technology services across the nuclear cleanup site in Washington state
The Department of Justice alleged Olsen helped draft and submit false statements to DOE regarding labor rates charged by Lockheed Martin, as well as the company’s anticipated profit in providing IT services at Hanford.
“The settlement requires Mr. Olsen to pay back three times the amount he received from the alleged fraud and holds Mr. Olsen accountable for his actions,” Joseph Harrington, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, said in a press release.
Mission Support Alliance has provided site-wide services at Hanford, including IT services, since 2009. Leidos purchased a major division of Lockheed Martin, which included its share of Mission Support Alliance, in January 2016.
