Government Contractors | Technology 2025: GEVEDEN, REX D.

Headquartered in Lynchburg, BWX Technologies manufactures nuclear reactors, fuel and components; develops and manufactures microreactors for national security and space applications, and provides nuclear technical services at government labs and facilities.

Geveden joined BWXT in 2015 as its chief operating officer before becoming CEO in 2017. He previously was an executive at Teledyne Technologies and a chief engineer and associate administrator at NASA.
A Fortune 1000 company, BWXT has approximately 8,700 employees — including about 2,840 in Virginia — and reported $2.7 billion in fiscal 2024 revenue, up from $2.49 billion the previous year.

In February, the company announced it had received $2.1 billion in Navy contracts to manufacture nuclear components for Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines, and in July, it won an additional $2.6 billion in Navy contracts for nuclear reactor components.

In early 2025, the company also completed its $100 million purchase of L3Harris’ Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, in Jonesborough, Tennessee; in

April, it bought land in Tennessee for a centrifuge plant. Geveden has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Murray State University. He’s chairman of the board for TTM Technologies and is a trustee for the Universities Research Association.