Michael Budney, who formerly led Department of Energy operations at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, has accepted a director post at Mission Technologies, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) in Canberra, Australia.
Budney announced the appointment Friday March 13 on his LinkedIn page. In the new role Budney will work with the Australian Submarine Agency, according to the LinkedIn page.
Budney ran the Savannah River field office for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management for seven years, until February 2025. Before that, he worked about three years for DOE’s Office of Business Operations. Budney worked about six years for Northrop Grumman after spending 30 years in the U.S. Navy. When Budney retired from the Navy in 2009 he was the deputy director of U.S. Nuclear Command & Control System support staff.