
The Biden administration will nominate Texas A&M nuclear engineering professor Marvin Adams to be deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the White House announced Wednesday. Adams, if approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee and confirmed by the full Senate, will replace Charlie Verdon, the last senior appointee left from the Trump administration. As of Thursday morning in the log-jammed Senate, which is juggling multiple legislative priorities tied to Biden’s domestic agenda and a long…