Meanwhile, BAE and Northrop teamed to pursue a deal with the Army to provide ground combat vehicles.

Also, MAXIMUS teamed up with Broadbean and KPP split from OAOT.

Harry Gatanas

Harry Gatanas serves as senior vice president of the Defense and Intelligence Group at Serco Inc. Gatanas has more than 33 years of experience as a leader in the Department of Defense acquisition and procurement.

In his current position, Gatanas is responsible for a significant portion of the company’s business with the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. He oversees the company’s C4I systems, networks and telecommunications services, engineering and enterprise architectures, program management and acquisition support to include economic analysis activities, military satellite systems, information operations, and all logistics and maintenance functions.

Prior to joining Serco, Gatanas served as executive vice president of strategic programs at SI International. Gatanas also served as president and CEO for MFN Global Services, L.L.C., a fiber-optic telecommunications provider for federal, state, local and international clients specializing in global information-grid solutions.

Gatanas’s government service included duties as the senior acquisition executive for the National Security Agency. Gatanas also served in the U.S. Army and is a retired general with over 28 years of leadership, contracting and acquisition experience.

Gatanas studied at Harvard’s Center for Management Research, the U.S. Army War College, and earned a master’s in teaching from Wayne State University and a bachelor’s degree in history from City College of New York.

Bo Durickovic

Bo Durickovic serves as executive vice president of the Defense Personnel Services Group at Serco Inc. He  is responsible for several Department of Defense outsourcing services programs focused on serving the needs of military veterans and their families, including recruiting, education and training, processing, career transition and retirement.

Durickovic began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and then gained experience in sales and marketing, assisting two early-stage companies, NP Energy and Trilogy. Durickovic was vice president of business development and corporate strategy for IMARK, an early-stage software company that was sold for 340 million USD to FreeMarkets. He was also co-founder of two companies, Phiware and IMON. Durickovic also served briefly as senior corporate strategy consultant to Dell Inc.

Durickovic holds an undergraduate degree with highest distinction in economics from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead scholar.

The award has the potential to signal an upswing in contracts being issued to firms in support of the NGNP.  Chu and the Administration will be watching these two firms closely to gauge success and decide how to proceed.

According to the Department of Energy: “If successful, the NGNP Demonstration Project will demonstrate high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technology that will be capable of producing electricity as well as process heat for industrial applications and will be configured for low technical and safety risk with highly reliable operations.  Final cost-shared awards are subject to the negotiation of acceptable terms and conditions.”

The DOE also reports that 16 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions come from industrial process heat applications.  The processed heat or steam generated by the high-temperature nuclear reactors could be used for highly-efficient electricity co-generation, which has the potential to help energy-intensive industries, such as petrochemical producers, reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

“This investment reflects President Obama’s commitment to building the next generation of nuclear reactors that will create thousands of jobs and supply the clean energy to power our economy,” said Chu.  “It’s time for America to recapture the lead in the nuclear energy industry and lay the foundation for a stronger, cleaner, and more competitive economic future.”

Bart Yeager

Bart Yeager is senior vice president of operations and strategic programs at INDUS Corporation. He has been with INDUS for more than a decade, managing contracts for 12 different federal agencies and leading more than 400 employees and 150 integrated subcontractor staff. He is currently in charge of INDUS’s largest business unit, federal civilian, which is made up of the aerospace and technical division and the transportation solutions division.

Prior to joining INDUS in 1997, Yeager served as program manager and director for DynCorp, Inc. He was responsible for IT service programs for agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services.

In addition to more than 25 years of software engineering and program management experience, Yeager has served two tours of active duty with the United States Marine Corps. He began his IT career during his second tour in 1981.

Yeager also holds a bachelor’s degree in decision sciences and management information systems from George Mason University.

Patty Nunn

Patty Nunn is senior vice president of the defense and intelligence sector at INDUS Corporation. She focuses on developing, operating and supporting IT solutions for the Department of Defense and components of the intelligence community.

Nunn has 20 years of professional management experience in fields ranging from IT to logistics and engineering. Prior to joining INDUS, she served as senior vice president for Karta, Inc., where she led an operational unit and captured new business opportunities.

Nunn has also worked with Anteon Corporation as vice president of proposals and production, where she led a large staff to support proposal development, trade shows and business communications.

Nunn serves as the special events chair for the National Defense Industrial Association’s small-business division and continues to be an invited speaker for various professional programs. In addition, she volunteers and serves on the board of Operation Pinecone, a nonprofit that puts together gift and care packages for service members primarily stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nunn has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the DeVry Institute and a master’s degree in administrative science from Johns Hopkins University.

Mike Bowers

Mike Bowers is senior vice president of the homeland security and civilian sector at INDUS Corporation. In that capacity, Bowers is responsible for the operations, growth and development of the homeland security and civilian sector.

Bowers has more than 24 years of experience leading and managing IT services, solutions and outsourcing. He spent more than 15 years at SAIC, culminating with the position of senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s enterprise services business unit. Additionally, Bowers served as senior vice president and general manager of health solutions for Vangent Incorporated and was president of Agilex Technologies’ civilian sector.

Bowers holds a bachelor’s degree in German language from the University of North Carolina, Asheville and a master’s degree in information systems management from The George Washington University.

Don Shoff

Don Shoff is chief financial officer and senior vice president of finance and administration at INDUS Corporation. Shoff is in charge of all financial and administration activities at the company, which include everything from accounting and contracts to bidding strategies, acquisitions, mergers, and working capital financing. Don has helped INDUS through number of high-profile acquisitions, most notably a 2005 acquisition with privately owned IT firm Aaron B. Floyd Enterprises.

Don has extensive business experience with both public and private companies. He received a bachelor‘s degree in business from Penn State.

Shiv Krishnan

Shiv Krishnan is the founder, chairman and CEO of INDUS Corporation. He emigrated from India in 1979 and brought with him only $500 and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Madras. When he arrived in the United States, he decided to further his education at Clarkson University with a master’s degree in chemical engineering.

Krishnan worked with numerous government and commercial IT providers. Along the way, he improved his management skills by spending two summers at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and after 13 years in the United States, he founded INDUS.

Krishnan serves on several boards, including recently as president of the Association for Corporate Growth, National Capital. He has been recognized as “one of the 20 people we admire in Washington business” by SmartCEO Magazine and was  named the 2002 SBA Small Business Person of the Year. He has also been named as a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year three times.

Krishnan advises the University of Virginia, George Mason University’s School of Management, and George Mason University Foundation as a member of their boards.

To view a video of Krishnan on in-sourcing, click here

Scott Rogers

Scott W. Rogers serves as the CFO/COO of Executive Mosaic, where he focuses predominately on the media properties including ExecutiveBiz, GovConWire and other associated firms.

In his role as CFO, Rogers is responsible for financial control and planning at ExecutiveBiz. He reports to President and CEO, Jim Garrettson. In his position, Rogers is responsible for the development, design, operation and improvement of the internal systems that create and deliver ExecutiveBiz’s products and services.

Before joining ExecutiveBiz, Scott W. Rogers was a successful entrepreneur with more than six years of experience in the Residential Construction Industry.

Prior to that, Scott has a decade-long experience in the telecom sector. He served as Director of Financial Operations and Administration of Wisor Telecom, where he helped restructure the ailing software company after the dot-com crash by securing the remaining assets, cost containment and overhauling financial operations. Before Wisor, Scott held a position as Manager of Business Analysis at Net2000 Communications, where he developed and implemented business analysis processes and models for review of all company products.

Prior to Net2000, Scott worked as financial analyst at Loral / Orion assisting with a $40M IPO and a $710M bond offering.

Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from James Madison University.