Acting Deputy Director named at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 7, 2003 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Interim Director George P. "Pete" Nanos today announced the appointment of Carolyn Mangeng as the laboratory’s acting deputy director.

Mangeng has been a key figure in Nanos’ office since his appointment as interim director on Jan. 6, 2003.

“Carolyn’s years of experience and demonstrated performance at the Laboratory give us tremendous balance in the Laboratory’s leadership,” Nanos said. “I’m very pleased to officially welcome her as the acting deputy director.”

“Carolyn Mangeng brings exceptional skill, insight and experience to the deputy director's position. She will be a strong asset to Pete Nanos as he leads Los Alamos toward a new era of operational excellence and accountability," added Bruce B. Darling, University of California Senior Vice President and Vice President for Laboratory Management.

In her new post Mangeng is responsible, with the laboratory director, for providing overall leadership and management of the laboratory. She will serve as laboratory director in the interim director’s absence. She serves as a member of the Senior Executive Team, which evaluates and makes decisions on a full range of institutional policies and issues.

Mangeng will interact on specific issues with other members of the Senior Executive Team and with elected and executive-level officials at the federal, state and local levels. She will interact with senior management of the University of California on a full range of institutional laboratory issues.

“While this position acts broadly for me and serves as laboratory director in my absence,” Nanos added, “I believe it is important to clarify that the director, not the deputy director, serves as the Laboratory’s chief operating officer.” Since his appointment as interim director in January, Nanos has taken an active and involved role in the laboratory’s programs and performance.

“The laboratory is fortunate to have a leader of the caliber of Pete Nanos at this key period in its history, and I am committed to supporting him in any way that I can,” Mangeng said of her appointment.

Mangeng most recently served as associate deputy director for national security and as director of the laboratory’s Office of National Security Planning and Analysis. This office provides long-range programmatic and policy analysis, counsel and recommendations regarding national security issues to laboratory senior management.

From 1998 to 2001, Mangeng served as deputy associate laboratory director for the Nuclear Weapons Directorate. She shared responsibility for the directorate’s line management as well as management of the $1 billion nuclear weapons program at Los Alamos. She had specific oversight of weapon maintenance, certification, component manufacturing and surveillance, and for interactions with the Department of Defense concerning the nuclear weapons stockpile.

Mangeng’s earlier assignments included deputy program director of Nuclear Weapons Technology, and program manager for Nuclear Weapons Concepts. Before joining the Nuclear Weapons Program, Mangeng was a principle investigator in systems studies in the areas U.S. and then-Soviet Union industrial and commercial energy conservation, regional and local environmental impacts and economic impacts of large energy facilities, electric utility fuel use, implementation of the Clean Air Act, hazardous waste streams at DOE facilities, and stockpile requirements for special nuclear materials.

Mangeng received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from Northwestern University.

A permanent appointment to the deputy director position will be made following a competitive search that will be undertaken after April 30, 2003.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission.

Los Alamos enhances global security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, developing technical solutions to reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health and national security concerns.

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