Kimberly Lebak, an executive in Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division, has been named as head of an HII and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) joint venture that performs cleanup work at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
HII said Tuesday that Lebak will oversee the $1.4 billion Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract for DOE as president and general manager of Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos.
She has been with HII since 2018 and previously held a nearly three-decade DOE career that includes service as manager of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos Field Office from 2014 to 2017.
Lebak received the 2017 Distinguished Presidential Rank Award for her excellent performance and accomplishments during her civilian service.
DOE awarded N3B the 10-year contract in December 2017 to mitigate contamination on the LANL site.