Harlan Bowers leads X-energy’s development of Xe-Mobile, a state-of-the-art, transportable nuclear power source, as well as government opportunity business development and various corporate initiatives. Harlan brings over 25 years of experience managing multi-$100M hardware-development and services programs with hundreds of personnel and team members. 

At X-energy, he has been in charge of business strategy analysis, design development, regulatory assessment and Nuclear Regulatory Commission engagement, and strategic partnerships. He has led X-energy’s efforts to capture multiple government contracts, including: U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) industry funding opportunity for the Xe-100 high-temperature gas reactor (HTGR); design of the commercial TRISO Fuel Fabrication Facility, also under DOE’s industry funding opportunity program; and nuclear thermal propulsion concept development with NASA.

Before joining X-energy in 2015, he was Senior Vice President at Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), where he led business development and several NASA engineering services contracts in program operations, resource management, task order management, and budget tracking. His responsibilities included being Program Manager for the NASA Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services and successfully supporting various NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) spaceflight and ground-systems development programs. Before that, he was the GSFC Mechanical Systems Engineering Services IIA Program Manager, with over 630 engineers, designers and technicians supporting multiple NASA programs and research initiatives. Prior to SGT, Harlan served in various director-level roles at Orbital Sciences Corporation. 

He holds a BS in Aerospace & Ocean Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Maryland-College Park.