Jeff Crater - Vice President

Jeff Crater has spent his career at the policy intersections of energy, defense and public health and the environment. He brings a wealth of business and government service experience.  

He is the co-founder and managing director of the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance Deterrence Center, established in 2017 as a bipartisan organization to inform key decisionmakers, stakeholders and the public on the estimated 30-year, $1.2 trillion modernization of the United States strategic nuclear deterrent. Jeff is also a co-founder and a Board member of the Center for Lyme Action, a 501(c)4, dedicated to increasing Federal funding to make Lyme disease easier to diagnose and simple to cure.

Previously Jeff was the Vice President of Government Relations for The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), a leading defense contractor for the Departments of Energy (DOE) and Defense, as well as NASA, and a global power generation technology supplier and manufacturer.  

At B&W, Jeff led a team through U.S. Government legislative, funding, and regulatory initiatives in support of nuclear, fossil and renewable energy and defense business goals.  Jeff also served as the Manager of Government Programs for former McDermott International subsidiary, BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT), which merged with B&W in 2006.  

BWXT manufacturers the nuclear reactors and fuel for U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers, manages DOE nuclear energy and nuclear weapons laboratories and nuclear cleanup sites, and supplies commercial nuclear components and advanced reactor design services.

Prior to B&W, Jeff was Vice President at the government relations firm Cauthen and Associates, advising and advocating on behalf U.S. utilities, such as Southern Company and PEPCO on EPA regulatory issues and climate change, and national security clients.

He was an advisor to Secretaries of Energy during the Clinton Administration and an investigator for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee under Chairman John D. Dingell (D-MI).

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Middlebury College.