Sandia Lab Director Steps Down to Help Lockheed in LANL Bid
Associated Press
The director of Sandia National Laboratories will step down later this month to help the company that manages Sandia prepare a bid to run Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Director C. Paul Robinson will step down April 29, Sandia officials said in a release Monday. He will be replaced by Thomas O. Hunter, who has been senior vice president of Sandia's defense programs overseeing nuclear weapons work.
Robinson plans to assist Lockheed Martin Corp., which currently manages Sandia, prepare a bid to the U.S. Department of Energy for the management contract at Los Alamos.
The University of California has held the Los Alamos contract since the northern New Mexico lab was established in 1943. But a series of security, safety and financial problems in recent years led the DOE to put the management contract up for bid in 2003.
Robinson was praised for his decade at the helm of Sandia.
"Paul kept Sandia on a steady course toward excellence, ethical behavior and a better quality of life for its employees and the local community,'' said Michael F. Camardo, Sandia Corp. board chairman and executive vice president of Lockheed Martin information and technology services.
Sandia's core mission will continue to focus on maintaining the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, Hunter said.
Camardo said Hunter, who has been at Sandia since 1967, brings intelligence and intergrity to his new role.
"He has a deep and thorough understanding of the national security needs of the nation, the complex missions of the laboratory, and he cares about the people who work at Sandia,'' Camardo said.
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