Proven Leaders From Scientific, Engineering, Academic, and Business
Communities Serve Board of Company Established to Manage and
Operate Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 19
/PRNewswire/ -- Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), the
company selected to manage and operate Los Alamos National
Laboratory starting June 1, 2006, today announced a board of
governors composed of proven leaders from the scientific, academic,
and business communities. "We have assembled a group of highly
accomplished leaders with remarkable depth and breadth in
disciplines important to leading Los Alamos into the future," said
LANS Board of Governors Chairman Gerald Parsky. "We have experts in
scientific research, technology, business management, nuclear
operations, national security, finance, accounting, and government
-- and the means to harness their knowledge, energy, judgment, and
vision for the good of the Lab and our nation's security." LANS
Vice Chairman Tom Hash, president of Bechtel Systems and
Infrastructure, Inc., added, "This board is geared to provide the
best support and guidance to our incoming Lab director, Mike
Anastasio, and his team." Anastasio, currently director of the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is president of LANS. Apart
from providing rigorous corporate governance, the board of
governors will ensure for LANS delivery of best practices and
timely allocation of resources from the parent organizations of
LANS. In addition to Parsky and Hash, the LANS board's executive
committee includes Craig Weaver of Bechtel Systems and
Infrastructure, John Fees of BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT) and
Marye Anne Fox and Joseph Mullinix of University of California.
Named to the board as outside governors are -- Dr. Sidney Drell,
senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and retired deputy director
of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; -- Richard Mies,
president and chief executive officer of Hicks and Associates, Inc.
and retired U.S. Navy admiral and commander in chief of U.S.
Strategic Command; -- Nick Moore, recently retired chairman of
PricewaterhouseCoopers; -- Dr. William Perry, senior fellow at the
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford
University and former U.S. Secretary of Defense; and -- New Mexico
State Representative Nick Salazar. "LANS combines the complementary
strengths of world-class university and industrial partners to
serve the national interest, and I'm pleased to play a guiding role
as a board member," said Perry. BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES (more
detail on http://www.lansllc.com)/ LANS Executive Committee Gerald
Parsky is chairman of Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based
investment firm and currently serves as chairman of the board of
regents of University of California, the nation's largest state
university system. From 1974 to 1977, he served as assistant
secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, where he was responsible
for all of the department's international affairs. Parsky has
served on advisory bodies serving three presidents and is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations. Tom Hash is chairman and
president of Bechtel Systems and Infrastructure, Inc., Bechtel
Corporation's government services unit. He also is an executive
vice president and director of Bechtel Group, Inc. Under his
leadership Bechtel has achieved double-digit growth in the
government sector, winning engineering, construction and operations
contracts for important U.S. government projects including
reconstruction of vital infrastructure in Iraq. Prior to joining
Bechtel in 1996, he was president of Babcock and Wilcox's Federal
Services Company. John Fees is president and chief operating
officer (COO) of BWX Technologies, Inc., where he has worked since
1979. He has managed engineering and project management for
national security programs and has held various leadership
positions including president of Diamond Power. In 1997 he became
president of BWXT Services, Inc., which provides management and
technical services to federal agencies and currently manages more
than 11,300 people at 11 major government locations. Fees was named
president and COO in September 2002. Marye Anne Fox is a nationally
known chemist and academic leader. Since 2004 she has been
chancellor of the University of California at San Diego. For the
prior six years she was chancellor and distinguished university
professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University. Before
that she spent 22 years at the University of Texas, where she held
the Waggoner Regents Chair in chemistry. Fox is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Joseph Mullinix is
University of California's senior vice president for business and
finance. He came to UC in 2000 from Yale University, where he was
vice president for finance and administration for six years. For
nine years prior to joining Yale, he was Columbia University's
senior vice president and chief administrative officer. Before his
career in higher education, Mullinix was a senior analyst with
Goldman Sachs. He also served as deputy associate director at the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Craig Weaver is executive
vice president of Bechtel Systems and Infrastructure, Inc., for
which he manages strategy and marketing as well as business
development. Previously, he was president of Bechtel National,
Inc.'s Energy and Environment Division, which works for major U.S.
government entities including the Department of Energy and the
Department of Defense. Since joining Bechtel in 1993, he has led
business development efforts that resulted in some of the company's
most significant job awards. He also is a senior vice president of
Bechtel Corporation. LANS Outside Governors Dr. Sidney Drell is a
widely recognized expert in theoretical physics and a longtime
advisor to the U.S. government on national security and defense
technology issues. He is professor emeritus at Stanford
University's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and senior fellow
at the Hoover Institution, as well as a consultant to Los Alamos
National Laboratory. Drell has chaired official panels on nuclear
weapons safety and technology and served on the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board. A member of the National Academy of
Sciences, he received the Enrico Fermi Award (2000) for lifetime
achievement in nuclear energy. Richard Mies is a retired commander
of U.S. Strategic Command, which is responsible for the nation's
strategic nuclear forces. He currently is president and CEO of
Hicks and Associates, a consulting firm serving government clients,
as well as deputy group manager for Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC), the largest employee-owned
research and engineering firm in the United States. Nick Moore is
the recently retired global chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He
joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1968, becoming chairman and CEO of
the company's U.S. operations in 1994, and chairman of Coopers
& Lybrand International in 1997. In 1998 the company merged
with Price Waterhouse to form PricewaterhouseCoopers. He currently
serves as a director of a number of companies including Bechtel,
Gilead Sciences, Network Appliance, Hudson Highland, and Brocade
Communications Systems. Dr. William Perry served as U.S. secretary
of defense from 1994 to 1997. Today he is a senior fellow at the
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford
University and a professor at Stanford's School of Engineering. His
business career has included serving as a laboratory director for
General Telephone and Electronics, founder and president of ESL,
executive vice president of Hambrecht & Quist, founder and
chairman of Technology Strategies and Alliances, and chairman of
Global Technology Partners. Perry is a recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nick L. Salazar is a member of the
New Mexico House of Representatives, a seat he has held since 1973.
His district includes the Northern New Mexico counties of Mora, Rio
Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, and Taos. Salazar is chairman of the
Rules and Order of Business Committee, cochair of the Interim
Legislative Ethics Committee, ranking member of the Appropriations
and Finance, Energy and Natural Resources, and Permanent Interim
Legislative Finance Committees, and a member of the Los Alamos
National Laboratory Oversight Committee. He is also a consultant to
Los Alamos National Laboratory. The LANS team was formed to manage
and operate Los Alamos National Laboratory by four organizations
renowned for accomplishments throughout the DOE nuclear weapons
complex and beyond. Bechtel is the largest project management
contractor in the United States. The University of California is
the world's largest academic research institution. BWXT and
Washington Group International are the top two DOE nuclear
facilities contractors and between them manage and operate four of
DOE's five safest sites. For more information about Los Alamos
National Security, including more detailed biographies of LANS
board members, please visit http://www.lansllc.com/. Background on
the organizations that formed LANS: BECHTEL Bechtel is a global
engineering, construction, and project management company with more
than a century of experience mastering complex projects in
challenging locations. Privately owned, with headquarters in San
Francisco, the company has 40,000 employees working in 50
countries. Bechtel is supporting national security and U.S.
intelligence and defense efforts, developing new technologies to
fight terrorism, monitoring the consequences of terrorist acts,
designing emergency response programs, and training both military
and civilian responders nationwide. Additionally, Bechtel has broad
capabilities and extensive experience in the management of complex,
multisite, environmental programs, including environmental cleanup
projects at several DOE sites in the United States. Bechtel's
national security work includes managing and operating Nevada Test
Site and its affiliated facilities for the National Nuclear
Security Administration. The company is also a partner in
management of the National Nuclear Security Agency's Y-12 National
Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas, as
well as the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Among its
Department of Defense contracts, Bechtel National manages the
Kwajalein missile range and supports nonproliferation efforts in
the former Soviet Union for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Bechtel 's portfolio also includes more than 15 years of government
laboratory management and support experience. UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA The University of California, founded in 1868, is a
system of 10 campuses with a mission of teaching, research, and
public service. With 208,000 undergraduate and graduate students,
UC is the world's premier public university. UC has five medical
schools, three law schools, and the nation's largest continuing
education program. Forty-nine researchers affiliated with UC have
been awarded Nobel Prizes; 16 of the Nobel Prizes have been won
since 1995. In addition, UC has 358 members in the National Academy
of Sciences and UC-affiliated researchers have received 48 Medals
of Science since Congress created the award in 1959. UC manages
three national laboratories on behalf of the Department of Energy.
Today, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories each
employ more then 8,000 UC staff and have combined annual budgets
exceeding $3.8 billion, while Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
has approximately 4,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly
$500 million. The university was recently awarded by DOE a
five-year contract to continue management of Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory. The laboratories are major sources of
scientific and technical strength for the nation in fields ranging
from national security, to basic physics, biotechnology, climate
studies, computer development, materials science, energy, and the
environment. The laboratories contribute to the country's economic
competitiveness through research partnerships with industry and
engage in math and science education for students and teachers at
all levels. BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT),
headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia, is the nation's premier
manager of complex, high-consequence nuclear and national security
operations. BWXT is a subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc.
(NYSE:MDR). Responsible for the operations of the Pantex Plant in
Texas and Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, along with
nuclear operations at the Idaho National Laboratory, BWXT has a
long history in nuclear manufacturing and operations, both in the
Department of Energy and at its unique, highly secure, privately
owned and operated nuclear manufacturing and laboratory facilities.
A supplier of nuclear products and services to the U.S. government
and commercial clients for over 50 years, BWXT has unparalleled
experience in nuclear safeguards and security and has been
recognized as a model by DOE. BWXT has more than 11,300 employees
nationwide with operations in 11 states. WASHINGTON GROUP
INTERNATIONAL With approximately 25,000 employees at work in more
than 30 countries, Washington Group (NASDAQ:WGII) provides
professional, scientific, management, and development services in
more than two dozen major markets. A contractor for the U.S.
Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies since the
Manhattan Project, Washington Group is a leader in providing safe,
disciplined operations, risk management, and comprehensive
environmental services for its customers. Its long history of
successful DOE operations continues today with: management and
operation contracts at the Savannah River Site, the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant, the West Valley Demonstration Project, and its
partnership in the Battelle Energy Alliance for operation of the
Idaho National Laboratory. Washington Group also is involved in
closure contracts at the Weldon Spring Remedial Action Project,
Miamisburg Closure Project, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology
Site, and the recently awarded Hanford River Closure and Idaho
Cleanup Project, as well as technical support and consulting
projects at Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National
Laboratories, DOE's Hanford Site, Pantex Plant, and Oak Ridge
complex. DATASOURCE: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, CONTACT:
Jeff Berger, +1-415-768-6397, or Sue Kuntz, +1-509-539-3497, both
of Los Alamos National Security, LLC Web site:
http://www.lansllc.com/
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