CORRECTING TRW President and Chief Operating Officer's name in release issued July 27.CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1995--Roland L. Robertson, who has headed TRW's major venture in the energy and environmental area for the past five years, has been selected to lead a new initiative intended to expand the company's business in those fields. Robertson has served since 1991 as president and general manager of TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Environmental Safety Systems Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. which is the management and operating contractor for the Department of Energy's Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Radioactive waste management The treatment and containment of radioactive wastes. These wastes originate almost exclusively in the nuclear fuel cycle and in the nuclear weapons program. Their toxicity requires careful isolation from the biosphere. Program. In his new assignment he will serve as vice president and TRW Systems Integration Group assistant general manager for environmental and energy technology. He will lead TRW's effort to build on the company's current environmental and energy programs in both government and commercial sectors, its related technologies and its decades of managing large and complex government programs. "We will commit significant human and financial resources to expand our involvement in energy and environmental programs," said Peter Hellman, TRW president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "We are fortunate to have an individual of Robby Robertson's experience to lead this new initiative for TRW." As vice president and TRW Systems Integration Group assistant general manager for environmental and energy technology, Robertson will draw on technical and management resources throughout TRW. In addition to the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program, a multi-billion national effort to develop a system to manage the nation's spent nuclear fuel Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant) to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction. and high-level nuclear wastes, TRW has been involved in a wide range of major energy and environmental programs over the past three decades. The company also announced the appointment of James W. Vaughan Jr. as director, environmental and energy programs, reporting to Robertson. Vaughan, former assistant secretary of energy for nuclear energy The Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy is the head of the Office of Nuclear Energy within the United States Department of Energy. The Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy is responsible for the Department's nuclear technology research and development, management of , previously was president of NUS NUS n abbr (BRIT) (= National Union of Students) → sindicato de estudiantes NUS n abbr (Brit) (= National Union of Students) → syndicat des étudiants , a division of Hallburton Corp. NUS provides technical services to the environmental and energy fields. "We believe TRW brings exceptional and diverse capabilities to this marketplace," said Robertson. "There are numerous areas within the Department of Energy, other government agencies and the commercial sector where our strengths match the needs of the day." TRW Systems Integration Group performs systems engineering and systems integration and develops and installs command and control systems, information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. systems and security systems for federal government agencies, industry contractors, and international customers. TRW provides advanced technology products and services to the automotive, space and defense, and information systems markets. Sales in 1994 were $9.1 billion. CONTACT: TRW Julian Levine, 703/204-8606 Al Frascella, 703/803-5353 |
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