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Colonel Lee Hartley

134th Air Refueling Wing
TN Air National Guard

Friday, December 3, 2021

In-person or on Zoom

7:30 - 8:30 a.m. (EST)

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Friday Meeting Details:

Virtual Attendees (Please Register):

Please register to attend the Zoom Friday morning meetings. You can register for more than one meeting with this link:
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https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkcOuvrj0sGtH310HtTdFkG1Hk4G3sF3k0

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In-Person Attendees (Registration not Needed):

Meetings are held in the UT Outreach Center in Oak Ridge. The University has asked that masks be worn in all indoor spaces.
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ETEC Meeting Sponsor

Thank you to Materials & Chemistry Laboratory (MCLinc) for sponsoring the Friday morning meetings in November and December.
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Events

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Upcoming ETEC Friday Meetings

December 10 - 2021 End-of-Year In-Person Celebration, featuring 2020 Award Winners
December 17 - No ETEC, Happy Holidays!
December 24 - No ETEC, Merry Christmas!

Local Events

Dec 7-9 - ECA: National Cleanup Workshop
Dec 8 - TAEBC: Opportunities in Energy 2021
Dec 8-9 - NNC2021, New Nuclear Capital Virtual Event

News

NNSA Awards Management and Operations Contract for Y-12, Pantex

DOE's NNSA announced Nuclear Production One, LLC (NPOne) has been selected for the Management and Operating (M&O) contract for the Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant, located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Amarillo, Texas. NPOne is a limited liability company, which consists of Fluor Federal Services, Inc. and AECOM Energy & Construction (an Amentum company).

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NNSA Awards Management and Operations Contract for Y-12, Pantex

Summit at ORNL Still No. 2 Supercomputer

The Summit supercomputer at ORNL remained the fastest system in the United States and the second-most powerful in the world in the biannual TOP500 list. Fugaku in Kobe, Japan, remained No. 1, where it has been since June 2020.

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Summit at ORNL still No. 2 supercomputer

NRC Accepts Application for Kairos Construction Permit

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review an application from Kairos
Power for a permit to construct a test reactor at a site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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NRC Accepts Application for Kairos Construction Permit

OREM, UCOR, HBCUs Expand Partnerships to Build Future Workforce

OREM and its contractor UCOR are expanding partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities. UCOR’s latest agreements with two HBCUs provide students new educational and professional opportunities and offer Oak Ridge and its contractors greater exposure to attract top talent.

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OREM, UCOR, HBCUs Expand Partnerships to Build Future Workforce

C2 Labs Spins Out RegScale as Separate, Product Development Company

Roughly two and one-half years after teaming-up to drive growth at C2 Labs, a digital transformation services company, Anil Karmel and Travis Howerton announced the spin out of the product development component and its inaugural product named Atlasity into a new company named RegScale.

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C2 Labs spins out RegScale as separate, product development company

Management Solutions Subsidiary, PCS Wins Global Award

Management Solutions, LLC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Project Controls Solutions (PCS) recently won the Global Project Controls Transformation Project of the Year for their Academic Certificate program and first of its kind, Project Controls Maturity Assessment© (PCMA©) at the 2021 Project Controls Expo.

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Local company Management Solutions, LLC subsidiary, PCS wins Global award

East Tennessee Purchasing Association Seeks to Improve Business Database

The East Tennessee Purchasing Association’s Diversity Business Alliance is making efforts to
improve its directory of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs), including minority-, woman- and veteran-owned small businesses. Click here to register a business.

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East Tennessee Purchasing Association seeks to improve diverse business database

Did You Know?

One of the new resources on ETEC's website is a Partnership Tool. With the link located on the Member Homepage, this tool is a list of publicly traded U.S. companies that do business in the DOE and DOD industries that are members of ETEC or ETEBA. Our goal is for this list is to be a resource for investors as well as businesses who may wish to partner with these companies. Thanks to ETEC member, Brook Nash, a financial advisor with BDL Financial Concepts, for compiling the list.
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Membership

New Member

ETEC welcomes Tennessee Morgan Construction and Services, LLC as a new member.
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Tennessee Morgan Construction is a full-service general contracting and construction management group well diversified in all trades, with an array of qualified suppliers and vendors covering any level of desired work. They are a dealer/erector for pre-engineered steel metal buildings and structures (PESB) specializing in federal/governmental/institutional/commercial/ fabrication projects.

Thinking about Joining?

• To learn more about ETEC and the Friday morning meetings, visit our website.
• To learn more about membership and to join, click here.

Already a Member?

• To inquire about the status of your membership, email Tracy
• To pay dues by credit card, please click here to pay online.
• To update your company profile, account, or visit the member directory, click here.
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