National Security Technologies (NSTec), the managing and operating contractor at the Nevada National Security Site, has named Roy Bridges and Raffi Papazian as vice presidents. Bridges, previously vice president for strategic management, is now NSTec’s vice president for operations. Papazian, previously the director of defense experimentation and stockpile stewardship (DE&SS), is now the vice president for program integration, responsible for integrating program execution across company directorates.
Bridges, a former astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Challenger on a mission in 1985, previously served as commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, and director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, NSTec said. Papazian previously managed NSTec’s portfolio of activities in the Mission and Project Division and served as the test group director of the test office in the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Dynamic Experimentation Division until 2006.