Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the immediate past administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, joined Westinghouse Government Services’ board of directors, the parent company announced Monday.
Westinghouse Government Services is a separately organized LLC and wholly owned subsidiary of the nuclear-plant designer, now owned by a subsidiary of Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management. Government Services goes after DOE nuclear business in the agency’s Office of Environmental Management and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
The company gave Gordon-Hagerty the title of director for strategic programs at Westinghouse Government Services, though she does not have an executive role in the company. A Westinghouse spokesperson did not immediately return phone messages and emails seeking comment.
In her new role, “Gordon-Hagerty will help the company with continued strategy and development of programs to support the United States Department of Energy and Defense nuclear decommissioning, security and energy goals,” according to Westinghouse’s presser.
Westinghouse Government Services’ nuclear business at DOE includes:
- Mid-America Conversion Services, the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF)-6 conversion contractor for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management. Westinghouse is a junior partner on the Atkins-led team.
- The Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility. Westinghouse has long operated the facility, which among other things manufactures tritium producing burnable absorber rods, from which the NNSA harvests tritium gas needed to keep nuclear weapons at their full destructive potential.
- The tank closure cesium removal system at the DOE’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. Westinghouse designed the system under a subcontract to site cleanup contractor, the Amentum-led Savannah River Remediation.
Westinghouse Government Services is the second incarnation of the company’s federal business. The first was spun off decades ago and the current team has been a resurgent player in the DOE government business since the Mid-America win in 2016, bidding or teaming on bids for work throughout DOE.
Bob Cochran has been the president of Government Services since late 2018, when the unit’s first president, Cathy Hickey, left the company.
