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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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