Document title:  EG&G no longer at test site
Document type:  Newspaper article
Publication:  Las Vegas Review-Journal
Date:  Oct. 27, 1995
Page: 4A
Author: Marian Green


EG&G no longer at test site

By Marian Green
Review-Journal

For more than four decades, EG&G Energy Measurements has played a high 
-profile role at the Nevada Test Site, conducting the delicate and highly 
technical work of capturing and measuring energy produced by Depart-
ment of Energy nuclear blasts.   

On Thursday, the company learned that Bechtel Nevada Corp. was awarded 
the $1.5 billion, 5 year contract to operate the Nevada Test Site.   

EG&G Energy Measurements, whose parent company is EG&G Inc., did not 
vie for the contract, which it had held since 1951, one of the longest-held 
Energy Department contracts.   

The future of the 3,900 EG&G, Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., and 
Raytheon Services Nevada workers at the test site is in the hands of 
Bechtel, said Colleen Curran Griego, an EG&G spokeswoman.   

"What usually happens in situations like that is that most of the rank-and-
file employees are retained and the (new contractor) brings in a team of 
top managers," she said.   

The change does not affect the operation of the parent company, EG&G Inc., 
a multinational Fortune 500 corporation, she added.  EG&G Energy Measure 
-ments will "pretty much cease to exist,"  but its projects will be carried 
on under the Bechtel banner, Griego said.     

Until a 1992 nuclear testing moratorium, EG&G Energy Measurements' 
primary work at the test site focused on electonically capturing and 
measuring the energy produced by the Energy Department's nuclear tests.

But the company did not sit idle after the moratorium, Griego said.  "We 
are not just mourning the loss of what we used to be," she said.

EG&G Ennergy Measurements has sought out new projects, including 
developing custom sensors used by companies and agencies around the 
world.   

One example is a research and development agreement with Allison Engine 
Co. and the Air Force to provide sensors that can help create more efficient 
jet engines.

EG&G also has been developing a system that can track oil from the air, 
day or night, using a new technology called laser-induced fluorescence 
imagery.   

"We hope that (the new projects) will continue full speed ahead under 
Bechtel," Griego said.   

EG&G's first office was established in Las Vegas in 1963, with three 
employees operating out of a small South A Street building.   

Since then, EG&G expanded to incorporate two wholly owned subsidiaries 
Energy Measurements which at their peak employed nearly 7000  people.

At that time, EG&G Energy Measurements, headquartered in Las Vegas, 
operated seven satelite offices and research laboratories in California, New 
Mexico, Massachusetts and Maryland.   

It currently operates facilities in Los Alamos, N.M., Pleasanton and Santa 
Barbara, Calif., and Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, D.C. 

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