EMCBC Leaders Highlight Cleanup Progress, Small Business Opportunities

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Federal team members from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) briefed attendees at the recent Kentucky Business Opportunities Exchange on cleanup progress at EMCBC-managed and supported sites and the center’s critical capabilities to support sites to closure. The event was held by the Energy, Technology and Environmental Business Association.

EMCBC Deputy Director Melody Bell is pictured at the podium, with EM Small Business Program Manager Ken Johnson at right of Bell and EMCBC Procurement Director Aaron Deckard at far right. The trio discussed upcoming procurement opportunities, emphasizing the innovation and creativity that small business partnerships bring to EM’s mission-critical work.

Also pictured at far left is EMCBC Program Manager Matt Young, who shared an update on the DOE Office of Environmental Management’s partnership with the Office of Naval Reactors and recent project successes at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna, New York; Kesselring Site in West Milton, New York; and Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

-Contributors: Sarah Marko, Stephanie Shewmon