The president of News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) Glenn Morgan is leaving his post with the legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and taking a job with Huntington Ingalls Industries.
“I wanted to let you know that I have been called upon to fill a corporate position for N3B’s majority member HII Nuclear, which requires my resignation as N3B President and Program Manager,” Morgan said in a Tuesday email to N3B staff, which was shared with Weapons Complex Monitor.
N3B holds a potential 10-year $1.4-billion contract for legacy cleanup at Los Alamos. N3B is currently working on the five-year base period. The full contract extends through April 2023, and there has been speculation the Newport News Nuclear-BWXT team might be replaced prior to all options being exercised.
Morgan has been at the helm of N3B since January 2019, according to his LinkedIn profile. Previously, he was a vice president for Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) at the Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions in South Carolina.
“Glenn will be filling a corporate position as a member of the Nuclear and Environmental Independent Performance Assurance Team” at HII, a spokesperson for the corporate parent said in a Wednesday morning email. As part of this team, Morgan “will execute a disciplined assurance process for HII’s work in nuclear operations,” the spokesperson said.
Effective immediately, N3B environmental remediation program manager, Kim Lebak, will step in as acting president and program manager, Morgan said in the email. Prior to joining N3B, Lebak was vice president of independent performance assurance for HII Nuclear, Morgan said. Before joining HII Nuclear in October 2018, Lebak held senior jobs with DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). In 2014, she was appointed manager of the NNSA Los Alamos Field Office.
Troy Thomson, currently Lebak’s deputy manager for environmental remediation, will fill Lebak’s old post on an acting basis, Morgan said.
In his departure email, Morgan said N3B has accomplished much in the past new years, including moving 45 transuranic waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and taking steps to contain migration of a hexavalent chromium plume at Los Alamos.
