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 clients,” O’Flynn wrote in an email.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently introduced students to the lab and provided overviews of different responses in the weekly Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Summer School, an article from Daily Energy Insider said.
The program had 20 college students across the country focus on nuclear nonproliferation missions within the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
The students were selected from: the University of California, Berkeley-led Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, who sponsored the program; the Consortium for Monitoring Technology and Verification; the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation; and the Consortium for Nuclear Forensics.
Consolidated Nuclear Security was recognized at the 2024 EPEAT Purchaser Awards as a recipient of an award from the Global Electronics Council for “sustainable electronics procurement,” according to a press release from the contractor.
CNS operates and manages the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The NNSA is splitting that contract and recently awarded a standalone Pantex deal to a venture led by BWX Technologies.
Pantex and Y-12 were also recognized for “sustainable electronic products in four categories,” according to the press release, in the fourth consecutive year Pantex was recognized and the eighth year Y-12 was recognized.
John Harvey, a trained physicist, longtime federal policy hand and lifelong advocate for the U.S. nuclear arsenal, died recently, according to an email shared internally at the Department of Energy last week. Jill Hruby, the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), wrote in a Sept. 3 post on the website X that she “will miss him.”
Harvey worked at the Pentagon, the NNSA and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. His age, cause of death and survivors were not immediately known to Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor at deadline on Friday.
