ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A former Los Alamos National Laboratory executive has been tapped to lead Sandia National Laboratories under a new management team headed by a subsidiary of Honeywell International.
The team announced the appointment of Stephen Younger as director Wednesday, noting that the National Nuclear Security Administration has cleared the team to begin transition activities as they prepare to take over the Albuquerque-based lab.
Lockheed Martin’s current contract expires April 30.
Younger previously worked as a senior associate director for national security at Los Alamos lab, where he was responsible for ensuring the safety and reliability of most of America’s nuclear deterrent.
Younger also was a nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the 1980s and worked at the Nevada National Security Site and for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
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