Updated at 1:45 p.m.
G. Peter Nanos on Wednesday became the seventh permanent director of the Laboratory. Regents of the University of California removed the "interim director" title from Nanos during a meeting at the UC, San Francisco campus.
Nanos has been interim director since Jan. 6.
"As he has throughout his career, Pete Nanos has exercised bold and innovative leadership as interim director of Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past six months," UC President Richard Atkinson said. Earlier this year, Atkinson told the UC regents that he would recommend Nanos to become permanent director of the Lab, which has been managed by the university since its creation in 1943.
"This vote by the regents to make him permanent director affirms our collective belief that Pete possesses the unique set of skills to sustain over time the business practice reforms we have put into place while also preserving the Laboratory's place as a premier institution of national security science," Atkinson continued.
Nanos, the former commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command and of the Navy's strategic nuclear program, served as principal deputy associate director for Los Alamos' Threat Reduction Directorate (ADTR) before being named interim Laboratory director. Nanos' naval career began with graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1967. His sea duty included service aboard destroyers and a tour as engineer officer on the aircraft carrier America (CV-66).
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