Longtime Pentagon nuclear weapons official Steve Henry is leaving the Department of Defense to become the Director of Global Security for Nevada National Security Site contractor National Security Technologies, LLC. Henry, who has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters since 2003, will head up a new directorate at the test site combining its National Center for Nuclear Security with homeland security and defense applications work. Henry will begin work at the test site Aug. 6. “We are extremely pleased to bring in someone with Steve’s experience and background to take the lead of our new endeavor to integrate all the aspects of one of the NNSS’s core missions under one directorate,” NSTec President Raymond Juzaitis said in a statement. “He will provide valuable leadership as the NNSS continues to enhance and evolve its role among the nation’s experts in ensuring the nuclear security of the United States.”
Henry has worked in the nuclear field for the government in varying capacities for the last 35 years. Before arriving at the Pentagon in 2003, he served as the Deputy Division Chief for Nuclear Weapons in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2000 to 2003, helped develop the Stockpile Stewardship Program as the Department of Energy’s Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Weapons Management from 1995 to 2000, and spent 20 years in the Army.
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