Mentor-Protege agreement signed
BWXT Y-12 and Fisk University sign Mentor-Protégé agreement
Fri, 22 September 2006
George Dials, president and general manager of BWXT Y‑12, and Hazel O’Leary, president of Fisk University and former United States Secretary of Energy, signed a Mentor-Protégé agreement this morning in a ceremony in Oak Ridge.
The Department of Energy (DOE) Mentor Protégé Program is designed to encourage DOE prime contractors to assist small disadvantaged firms certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, which includes women-owned small businesses, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and other minority institutions of higher learning and small business concerns owned by service-disabled veterans.
The program provides BWXT Y‑12 a mechanism for entering into integrated working agreements and for providing non-financial assistance to these entities. The agreements are designed to enhance the Protégé’s business and technical capabilities, and to foster long-term business relationships between these small businesses or universities and DOE prime contractors.
Dials, said the agreement “will significantly contribute to Y‑12’s achieving its objectives of promoting technological growth and business development opportunities within the university while new collaborative research and development opportunities will help Y‑12 in accomplishing its national security missions with DOE/NNSA.”
Y-12 has agreements with LeGacy Resource Corporation; G2 Engineering & Management, Inc.; East Tennessee Mechanical Contracting, Inc.; Haselwood Enterprises, Inc.; Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc.; MS Technology Inc.; ES&H Inc.; American Defense Services, Inc.; Alabama State University; Tennessee State University; and South Carolina State University.
BWXT Y-12, a limited liability enterprise of BWX Technologies Inc. and Bechtel National Inc., operates the Y‑12 National Security Complex for NNSA.