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Pentagon Appoints Ex-NNSA Administrator Gordon-Hagerty to Advisory Board

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020

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Pentagon Appoints Ex-NNSA Administrator Gordon-Hagerty to Advisory Board

The Pentagon appointed Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, until recently the administrator of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), to the Defense Policy Board Wednesday, potentially giving DoE’s former nuclear-weapons boss an official line of communication to the Joe Biden administration. The board, a Federal Advisory Committee first chartered by the Department of Defense in 1985, meets around four times a year, or as needed, to provide advice for the secretary of defense through the undersecretary of defense for policy.…

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