Nuclear industry veteran Bob Cochran has been named president of Westinghouse Government Services, effective Nov. 1. He succeeds Cathy Hickey, who on Nov. 1 became executive vice president at Department of Energy contractor Navarro Research and Engineering in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Cochran has been a director for Virginia-based Westinghouse Government Services for about 18 months, a spokesperson for parent Westinghouse Electric, Sarah Cassella, said in an email Monday. “Bob has had an accomplished career successfully leading and growing major government services businesses in the Department of Energy and broader federal market.”
Cochran served as president of Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group from 2006 to 2011 and in the same position for CB&I Federal Services from 2013 to 2015, according to his LinkedIn profile. He is also a former chairman of the Energy Facility Contractors Group.
Westinghouse Electric was sold from Toshiba to Brookfield Business Partners, a global asset management firm, earlier this year.
Westinghouse Government Services is currently a partner in Atkins-led Mid-America Conversion Services, which runs the Energy Department’s depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio and the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Mid-America has a five-year, $319 million contract that runs through January 2022.
The Westinghouse venture is also a minority partner with Fluor in pursuit of a decade-long, multibillion-dollar contract for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
