Kansas City, Mo.-based Burns & McDonnell recently named Willie Clark as its federal strategy director, the company announced this week.
For the previous almost nine years, Clark had been the giant engineering corporation’s federal business development manager, according to the company’s Wednesday news release. He held positions with the National Nuclear Security Administration from 1987 to 2003 before joining Parsons to eventually become its vice president of nuclear projects. He joined Burns & McDonnell in 2012 to develop business with several federal agencies, including the Department of Energy.
“We’re thrilled to have Willie take on this new role as federal strategies director,” said David Barr, leader of the Federal Group and a vice president at Burns & McDonnell, in the release . “His wealth of experience in opportunity development, capture management and team growth in the federal market will take our federal services to a new level.”
“I’m looking forward to taking on this expanded role to provide strategic oversight of our service offerings and identify new opportunities for the firm to continue growing its federal portfolio to design and build some of our nation’s most critical infrastructure,” Clark said in the release.
Since 2018, Burns & McDonnell has been working on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s security’s exascale computing facility modernization project, which is updating the facility to handle one of the world’s fastest computing platforms. That project includes upgrades to the facility’s electrical, mechanical and structural capabilities.
The Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration said this week it has disposed of more than 100 “legacy” facilities at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas.
“For years now, we’ve been strategically removing legacy equipment and materials, packaging and shipping contaminated waste, and demolishing outdated facilities,” Jim McConnell, associate administrator for NNSA’s Office of Safety, Infrastructure, and Operations, said in a press release.
It is a process that allows NNSA to reduce risk and modernize its facilities, McConnell said.
Most of the old facilities, contaminated with industrial hazards such as asbestos, mercury and beryllium, are located within the security fences at the sites that contribute to the national nuclear deterrent. About 60% of NNSA’s facilities are more than 40 years old, according to the release.
Both Y-12 and Pantex are managed by Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security.
The Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration plans to extend by four months an existing deal with a small business that provides technical support and analysis.
In a procurement notice published April 23, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said its current three-year-and-a-half year deal with Vector Resources, Inc., which is worth about $3 million, will be extended from April 30 through Aug. 30.
According to the notice, the extension includes a two-month base and two, one-month option periods and is worth roughly $290,000.
The current task order stems from a blanket purchase agreement NNSA issued for technical, engineering and program services in October 2017. The work is done for NNSA’s Office of Defense Programs, which is in charge of ensuring the reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
The Vector Resources website describes the company as a small, woman-owned business that is based in Florida with clients that include DOE, NNSA, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee as well as the Sandia National Laboratories and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, both in New Mexico.
