Travis Howerton
Senior Director for Transformation, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
Senior Director for Transformation, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
Travis Howerton is the senior director for Transformation within the Business Management and Transformation organization at Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, which is responsible for the management and operation of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In this role, his duties include line management of the Merger and Transformation organization, leadership of the CNS Cost Savings program, management of the Booz Allen Hamilton support staff, line management of the Information Solutions and Services organization, and responsibility for the Business System Modernization project and Enterprise Resource Planning consolidation.
Before joining CNS in 2016, Howerton served as the deputy director for the Information Technology Services Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was responsible for day-to-day IT and cyber security operations. He ensured efficient programmatic execution for cyber security operations, the application portfolio, research and development support systems/applications, networking, infrastructure/data center operations, library capabilities and enterprise architecture. He also was the line manager for ITSD, with 200 employees and an annual budget more than $50 million.
Previously, Howerton served as the chief technology officer for the National Nuclear Security Administration. In that role, he provided technology strategy and direction for the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, with an annual technology budget of nearly $1 billion.
Howerton began his career as a software engineer and has held various roles in the Department of Energy, including security program manager for the Y-12 Site Office, YSO chief information officer, director for the Cyber Sciences Lab and chief technology officer.
Howerton holds a B.S. in organizational management from Tusculum College (Greeneville, Tennessee) and an M.S. in computer information systems from Boston University.