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New Livermore Lab director Albright starts job
San Francisco Business Times by Steven E.F. Brown
Date: Friday, December 2, 2011,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory welcomed a new director, Penrose “Parney” Albright, on Thursday.
Albright started work as the 11th director of the Department of Energy laboratory, taking over from the retiring George Miller.
Besides being the lab’s director, Albright, a physicist, is president of Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC, the group that manages the lab. LLNS is a team of businesses, including San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., URS Corp., and the University of California.
In the past, Albright oversaw global security at Livermore Lab, which hired him in 2009. He also was president of Civitas Group LLC, which studies the United States’ defenses against terrorism.
He was Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the past.
Albright also designed an experiment that was carried into orbit on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1991 on a Department of Defense mission.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was started in 1952 by the University of California as a Cold War atomic weapons research center, building on the work started with the Manhattan Project. Since then, it has expanded into many other areas of research, including fusion energy (many methods, including the current laser ignited system), weather studies, and biomedicine.
7 comments:
I'm dropping this comment just give the impression that anyone cares about this dude.
Is it possible that the Board of Governors actually learned something by selecting the unknown Parney? By the apparent lack of interest in this guy versus the selections of Anastasio/McMillan, maybe so. We can only hope the "Livermore" legacy will die following McMillan. God save Los Alamos if Knapp becomes the next LANL Director because his plan would be to burn down the Laboratory, city, county and everyone in them.
Is it possible that the Board of Governors actually learned something by selecting the unknown Parney? By the apparent lack of interest in this guy versus the selections of Anastasio/McMillan, maybe so.
December 14, 2011 2:37 AM
The selection of Parney may have been in part in response to the reaction to the LANL process.
Is it possible that the Board of Governors actually learned something by selecting the unknown Parney? By the apparent lack of interest in this guy versus the selections of Anastasio/McMillan, maybe so.
December 14, 2011 2:37 AM
The selection of Parney may have been in part in response to the reaction to the LANL process.
The selection of Parney may have been in part in response to the reaction to the LANL process.
December 14, 2011 8:16 AM
That, and the very different backgrounds of the two. Parney is broad and has indicated that he desires to have LLNL be more than just a weapons design Lab.
The selection of Parney may have been in part in response to the reaction to the LANL process.
December 14, 2011 8:16 AM
Don't forget that LLNL and DHS have a special bond going back to the earliest days. Parney was involved in those discussions.
Don't forget that LLNL and DHS have a special bond going back to the earliest days. Parney was involved in those discussions.
December 14, 2011 12:49 PM
That's a good thing because the DoD hates Livermore. Especially the Navy (i.e. Strategic Systems Program Office). Did you guys (LLNL) ever wonder why you have no Navy Systems? That is, REAL Navy systems, not toys.
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