Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It is a short distance northwest of Santa Fe,New Mexico,in the southwestern United States.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore,California,United States,founded by the University of California,Berkeley in 1952. Originally a branch of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,the Lawrence Livermore laboratory became autonomous in 1971 and was designated a national laboratory in 1981.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with matters of federal energy policy and the safe handling of nuclear material. The DOE is responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program,nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy,energy-related research,and domestic energy production and energy conservation.
The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers are a system of facilities and laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for scientific and technological research. Sixteen of the seventeen DOE national laboratories are federally funded research and development centers administered,managed,operated and staffed by private-sector organizations under management and operating (M&O) contract with DOE.
Ashton Baldwin Carter is an American public policy professor who served as the 25th secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He is currently director of the Belfer Center for Science &International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
Curtis Bruce Tarter is an American theoretical physicist. He was the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1994-2002. As director emeritus he recently published the first comprehensive history of the laboratory.
The Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) was a proposed new American nuclear warhead design and bomb family that was intended to be simple,reliable and to provide a long-lasting,low-maintenance future nuclear force for the United States. Initiated by the United States Congress in 2004,it became a centerpiece of the plans of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to remake the nuclear weapons complex.
The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI),also shortened to IN,DOE-IN,DOE/IN,I&CI,or OIC,was established in 2006 by the merger of various pre-existing Energy Department intelligence and security organizations. It is an office of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the DOE complex;due to this central role,OICI is designated DOE's Headquarters Intelligence. As a component of the United States Intelligence Community in addition to the Department of Energy,OICI reports to the Director of National Intelligence in addition to the Secretary of Energy.
Linton Forrestall Brooks is an American government official who served as the Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security from 2002 to 2007.
John Alexander Gordon was an American air force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as the President's Homeland Security advisor from 2003 to 2004.
The Under Secretary for Nuclear Security,in the United States Department of Energy,is the Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The National Nuclear Security Administration's responsibilities include designing,producing,and maintaining safe,secure and reliable nuclear weapons for the U.S. military,providing safe,militarily effective naval nuclear propulsion plants,and promoting international nuclear safety and nonproliferation. The current Under Secretary is Jill Hruby.
Kevin Greenaugh is an American nuclear engineer and senior manager at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington,DC,United States.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal agency responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety,security,and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile;works to reduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction;provides the United States Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion;and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad.
Edward Moses is an American physicist and is the former president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization. He is a past principal associate director for the National Ignition Facility &Photon Science Directorate,where he led the California-based NIF,the largest experimental science facility in the US and the world's most energetic laser,that hopes to demonstrate the first feasible example of usable nuclear fusion.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear,Chemical &Biological Defense Programs,or ASD(NCB),is the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense,Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment on policy and plans for nuclear,chemical,and biological defense programs.
Charles F. McMillan is an American nuclear physicist and served as the 10th director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His appointment was effective June 1,2011. He succeeded Michael R. Anastasio. On September 5,2017,McMillan announced he would be leaving the director position at the end of the year.
Penrose "Parney" C. Albright is a physicist and weapons scientist known for his work with the U.S. Government,think tanks and National Laboratories,and government contractors. Since November 1,2014,he has been the president and CEO of HRL Laboratories,a research firm jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors. Until December 2013 he served as the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,and,in 2014,he served as a senior advisor in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Njema Frazier is a nuclear physicist at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington,D.C.
The Federal Protective Forces are paramilitary forces of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for the protection of Category I special nuclear material. Though officially classified as security police,they hold law enforcement status,,while engaged in the performance of official duties. Officers are equipped and trained to respond to serious incidents at Department of Energy facilities by armed adversaries and to reacquire stolen nuclear material. The FPFs have been described,by the DOE,as "elite fighting forces" designed to operate in "combat environments".
Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty is an American scientist and former government official who served as the under secretary of energy for nuclear security and administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Earlier in her career,she had served in various other leadership positions in the Department of Energy and the National Security Council.
