
A senior official at the University of California has been picked to lead nuclear weapons programs at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory effective Feb. 4, the Department of Energy facility said Tuesday. Kimberly Budil will be principal associate director for weapons and complex integration: the top nuclear weapons job at the Livermore, Calif., laboratory that together with the Sandia National Laboratories handles the lion’s share of the work on the recently sped-up W80-4 life-extension program. The program is designed to…