David O’Flynn said this week he planned to retire Sept. 8 as the executive director of Strategic Management Solutions, better known as SMSI: an Albuquerque, N.M.-based small business fixture at Department of Energy nuclear-weapon sites across the country.
O’Flynn had been the executive director since April, when SMSI was acquired by Berhard Capital Partners, a Louisiana-based private equity management firm led by a former Shaw Group executive that has been rolling up small DOE contractors.
“I’ve had 22 great years at SMSI and enjoyed the work, the people, and the opportunities to support our DOE and NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] clients,” O’Flynn wrote in an email.
DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded Old Harbor Solutions, Anchorage, Alaska, an indefinite quantity, indefinite delivery contract to provide technical and business support services to the EM Consolidated Business Center in Cincinnati.
An administrative hub for EM contracting, the Consolidated Business Center announced the award in a press release this week. The contract has an ordering period spanning Sept. 30, 2024, to Sept. 29, 2029 and a maximum value of $15 million, the center said in the release.
Clyde Frank, the first deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Science and Technology within the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), died June 26 after a nine-month battle with laryngeal cancer. He was 83.
After obtaining his Ph.D in analytical chemistry in 1966, he became a professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Iowa where he stayed for 16 years, according to his obituary in the Washington Post.
Frank then moved to Idaho in 1982 to create a Chemical Sciences Organization for EG&G Idaho, then the prime contractor for Idaho National Laboratory. The organization had more than 125 members, according to the obituary.
Frank was hired in 1991 as EM’s first deputy assistant secretary for science and technology, where he oversaw technology development for environmental problems with defense facilities cleanup, the obit said.
Frank is survived by his wife, two of his children, sister, four grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and nieces nephews and grand nephews, according to the obituary.