Richard Tighe will be the president and chief executive officer of the Bectel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, prime contractor of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the company announced Wednesday.
Tighe replaces Bill Tindall, who retired in July. Gene Sievers, Gene Sievers, site manager for Y-12, had been the interim CEO. Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) did not say why Tindall left the job.
Tighe, who pronounces his last name “tie,” was most recently president and general manager of the Bechtel-led National Aerospace Solutions, the Air Force’s operations contractor for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base near Tullahoma, Tenn. Tighe was previously with the parent company, leading its Nuclear, Security, and Environmental global business unit. He became a Bechtel vice president in 2016.
After seeming like a lock to lose the combined management contract it started work on in 2014, CNS will be on the job at the Y-12 and Pantex until at least Sept. 30, 2024 and possibly until Sept. 30, 2025. CNS might even manage Y-12 until Sept. 30, 2027, under options the NNSA added to the existing prime contract earlier this year after scrapping a controversial and allegedly tained follow-on competition that resulted in an award to a Fluor-Amentum partnership.
