Robert Raines, the former National Nuclear Security Administration procurement boss of 10 years, went to work for Atkins Nuclear Services, the company said this month in a press release.
Raines “ joined the organization supporting strategic business development, performance assurance and governance of large programs,” Atkins wrote in a press release dated Sept. 1.
Raines in June left the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) after 10 years as the head of the agency’s Office of Acquisition and Project Management. The NNSA in August announced it had eliminated that office as part of a plan to split the responsibilities formerly held by Raines and another official among three newly created offices.
At the NNSA, Raines helped with the agency’s rebuilding of nuclear weapons production infrastructure, including at the under-construction Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex and with the early stages of changes to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., that eventually are intended to turn those sites into production centers for plutonium pits: the fissile cores of nuclear-weapon first stages.
