
William Bookless will resign as acting administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on inauguration day, Jan. 20, setting up career civil servant David Huizenga to shepherd the nuclear-weapons agency through the early days of the Joe Biden administration. Bookless announced his impending departure Monday in an all-hands memo to NNSA staff. Bookless has led the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency since the first week of November, when Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette demanded that Lisa Gordon-Hagerty resign as…