WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, told the Exchange Monitor it ‘feels like we’re close’ to finalizing an extension for a management and operations contract at Lawrence Livermore.
“We’re working on an extension on that,” Hruby said, referring to Lawrence Livermore National Security, the California nuclear weapons lab’s Bechtel National-led management and operations contractor, “which I’ve said before, but it feels like we’re close.”
Hruby spoke with the Monitor after participating in a moderated panel at the National Press Club here, hosted by the anti-nuclear nonprofit Los Alamos Study Group.
Aside from Bethel, Lawrence Livermore National Security, includes the University of California, BWX Technologies, and Amentum. The team’s current management and operations contract, awarded in 2007, runs through September 2026. The lab is the design lead on the W87 warhead for the future Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile.
Elsewhere in the nuclear security enterprise, Hruby said that a final request for proposals (RFP) for management and operation at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C., would be released in January. Savannah River closed responses to a draft RFP from September last week.
Dennis Carr, chief operating officer at Fluor-led contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, told the Monitor at an industry conference in late October that the parent company Fluor “will be part of that competition.”
