The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has appointed Jay Tilden as associate administrator and Dave Bowman as deputy associate administrator for counterterrorism and counterproliferation, the agency announced Monday.
Most recently Tilden served as acting associate administrator following Steve Aoki’s departure from the position late last year, the announcement said. He previously also worked as deputy associate administrator in the same office, director of the Office of Nuclear Threat Science, intelligence and security advisor to the deputy under secretary for counterterrorism, and director of the counterterrorism division in the Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Bowman, who this year has been serving as the acting deputy associate administrator, is now the permanent deputy. He previously worked as deputy director and then director for the NNSA’s Office of Nuclear Incident Response.
NNSA Issues RFP for Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Support
The NNSA is seeking a small business to provide technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) support at its Nevada Field Office, the Nevada National Security Site, National Security Technologies offices in Livermore, Calif. and Los Alamos, N.M., and other sites, according to a Request for Proposal issued last week.
The Department of Energy’s TSCM program seeks to detect and deter technical security hazards and protect classified and sensitive material from technical surveillance intrusions. The TSCM support services contractor will contribute to the program’s facility surveys, inspections, monitoring, briefing, and other functions intended to identify technical security vulnerabilities, according to the performance work statement.
The contractor will provide an estimated 4,296 labor hours per year for a 12-month base period – beginning October 2016 – with four one-year option periods, the NNSA said. Proposals are due by June 17 at 4:00 p.m. Mountain time via fedconnect.net.
Centrus Announces Two Vice President Appointments
Centrus Energy announced Friday two executive appointments: Dennis Scott has been appointed vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary, and Larry Cutlip has been appointed vice president of field operations, both effective May 23. The company supplies enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the U.S. and internationally.
Scott, acting general counsel since last July, will now serve as Centrus’ principal legal and corporate governance officer, the company said. Since 1994 he worked for Centrus’ predecessor, the United States Enrichment Corporation, as assistant general counsel, deputy general counsel, and director of corporate compliance, it said.
Cutlip will lead Centrus operations at its Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky sites, and take over the duties of Steven Penrod, outgoing vice president of American Centrifuge. Cutlip most recently served as deputy director of the American Centrifuge Project, the sole domestic uranium enrichment facility featuring a 120-centrifuge demonstration cascade for nuclear power plant fuel enrichment. He will also continue as president of Centrus subsidiary American Centrifuge Manufacturing, the centrifuge technology company that supports the project, the company said.
DOE IG: NNSA Meeting Nuclear Incident Response Aircraft Requirements
The NNSA is better meeting aircraft requirements for the nuclear incident response missions it supports, the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General (IG) found in a May 18 report.
The report said that the NNSA has taken corrective actions since a 2003 inspection report found that the agency was not meeting its aircraft requirements for Joint Technical Operations Team (JTOT) missions and had no contingency plan for cases in which agency aircraft were unavailable. The NNSA’s JTOT offers technical support in the event of nuclear or radiological terror incidents, and three agency aircraft support this team’s missions, the IG said. The NNSA is required to maintain one aircraft, its crew, ground support, and maintenance personnel ready to launch up to four hours after notification of a nuclear or radiological incident, it noted.
The improvements cited by the IG include several memorandums of agreement and memorandums of understanding within the agency and with the Department of Defense (DoD) to increase emergency readiness response. Some of these agreements with the DoD outlined contingency plans tasking other government agencies with aviation support when NNSA aircraft are unavailable to perform emergency response missions, the IG said. The NNSA and DoD also signed a memorandum of understand that outlined the roles of each agency in the event of terrorist nuclear threats, including an agreement between the NNSA and the U.S. Army’s 20th Support Command that established roles for response to improvised nuclear devices and radiological dispersion devices. The IG made no formal recommendations in the report.
