Former Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos manager Raymond Juzaitis has been named as the President of Nevada National Security Site manager National Security Technologies, LLC. Juzaitis will take over the position Jan. 5, replacing Stephen Younger, who announced his retirement in August. Juzaitis most recently has served as the head of Texas A&M’s nuclear engineering department, but he previously spent time at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as its associate director of nonproliferation, homeland and international security and at Los Alamos National Laboratory as its associate director for weapons physics. At Los Alamos, Juzaitis was involved in designing experiments that were previously conducted at the test site, and he told NW&M Monitor yesterday that he was at the test site for the last nuclear test in 1992. “I feel like I’m coming home a little bit,” Juzaitis told NW&M Monitor. “I’m sort of excited to be back in the national security business. I have that kind of in my genes.”
In a statement, Northrop Grumman executive Bill Carty, the chairman of NSTec’s Board of Managers, said Juzaitis’ background made him an ideal pick for the job. “His extensive experience in nuclear weapons physics and testing combined with his leadership and management credentials make him the most qualified individual to lead NSTec now,” Carty said. “We are fortunate to have a person of Ray’s caliber leading an already talented NNSS team into the future.”
Juzaitis nearly became the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nine years ago. Picked by the University of California to head up the lab, Juzaitis’ selection was derailed because UC officials failed to inform then-Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham that Juzaitis—then an official at Los Alamos—had led the division at Los Alamos where accused Chinese spy Wen Ho Lee worked, though he was never accused of any wrongdoing. Juzaitis’ background at Los Alamos is also believed to have played a large role in backlash at Livermore over his selection, and Abraham refused to sign off on the pick. After Juzaitis withdrew from the search process, Michael Anastasio was ultimately selected as Livermore’s director.
Jobs