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Nashville, TN – Bruce H. S. Anderson, has joined BWSC, as Vice President and Federal Program Director, responsible for overall direction and strategic oversight of the firm’s work with federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of Energy.
Bruce has over 35 years experience in senior leadership, management, and providing legal services for engineering design, construction and operations and maintenance projects in the US, Europe and the Middle East for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and at Goddard Space Flight Center, Kennedy Space Center and Marshall Space Flight Center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Some of his senior leadership positions in USACE were as Memphis District Counsel, Missouri River Division Counsel and Transatlantic Programs Center Counsel and in NASA as Kennedy Space Center Chief Counsel and Chief Operating Officer for the National Space Science and Technology Center at Marshall Space Flight Center. Most recently, he served in an appointed position with the State of Alabama as Assistant Director for Civil and Military Aerospace of the Alabama Development Office.
A native of Petersburg, VA, Bruce began his career as a submarine design engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. While with USACE, he also served as an instructor in the College of Engineering at the University of South Alabama, and as lead instructor for a number of USACE contract administration courses. He was appointed to the federal Senior Executive Service in 1998 and has received a number of Department of the Army and NASA leadership and achievement awards and also received Vice President Gore’s Hammer Award for his work at Kennedy Space Center.
Bruce received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1972 from the University of Alabama. He returned to the University to receive his law degree in 1975. He is a member of several honorary and professional engineering and legal societies, including Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity, Theta Chi Civil Engineering Honorary Fraternity, and the Capstone (University of Alabama) Engineering Society. He has been licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Alabama, the Supreme Court of Tennessee, the Supreme Court of Nebraska, various U.S. District Courts, various U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Court of Federal Claims. Bruce currently resides in Huntsville, AL.
“Bruce’s long-term experience and relationships throughout the Corps of Engineers and NASA will allow us to strengthen our presence within these markets. We are also looking to Bruce to help us broaden our global experience working with the federal government,” said Bob Higgins, president and CEO of BWSC.
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