WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a brand new contract to handle and function Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) positioned in Newport News, VA. The award was the results of a DOE competitors for the administration and working (M&O) contract for the laboratory. The profitable offeror is SURATech, LLC. The SURATech, LLC workforce is comprised of two workforce member entities – Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and 4 main subcontractors – Honeywell International, Inc., Longenecker and Associates, Inc., Akima Support Operations, and AtkinsRéalis.
TJNAF is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) single-purpose laboratory that’s anticipated to evolve right into a multi-purpose National Laboratory over the subsequent few years with the development of SC’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) challenge. TJNAF leads the nation within the building and operation of world-leading accelerator and detector amenities and in creating the underlying expertise for nuclear physics analysis. TJNAF’s main mission is to ship breakthrough science and expertise in nuclear physics; accelerator science and expertise; and large-scale consumer amenities/superior instrumentation. TJNAF occupies a 169-acre web site owned by the federal authorities. The facility employs about 759 staff and operates with an annual funds of roughly $238 million.
The new contractor will assume operations efficient June 1, 2026, following a two-month transition interval starting on April 1, 2026. The preliminary base time period of the contract is 5 years, from June 1, 2026, by means of May 31, 2031. The contract has an award time period incentive for exemplary efficiency, permitting the federal government to prolong the contract up to a complete of 15 years past the preliminary five-year base time period.
DOE’s Office of Science is accountable for the stewardship of TJNAF. The Office of Science is the most important supporter of fundamental analysis within the bodily sciences within the United States and is working to tackle a few of the most urgent challenges of our time. For extra info, please go to the Office of Science website.