Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is shuffling its senior leadership ranks, moving lab weapons chief Bruce Goodwin into a new slot as associate director at large for National Security Policy & Research and shifting his deputy, Charlie Verdon, into the lab’s top weapons spot in an acting capacity. The lab also said that Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) Director Ron Lehman is moving to a new post as counselor to lab director Parney Albright. Goodwin, who has headed up the lab’s weapons program since 2001 and was a candidate for lab director in 2011, will head up CGSR as well as the lab’s National Security Office while focusing on “high-focus key initiatives and special assignments,” the lab said Friday. The change will take effect May 1. “This new role will allow us to strategically coordinate broad national security policy engagement at the international level,” Albright said in a statement. “Bruce will lead a proactive and revitalized effort across the Laboratory in developing a national security policy engagement portfolio. This role is ideally suited for Bruce, who is an extremely well respected national security leader across the DOE complex and with international partners.”
Verdon has been with the lab since 1998 and has held several different roles within the Weapons and Complex Integration organization, and has most recently served as the principal deputy of the organization. Lehman served as the director of CGSR since 1996. “I am confident that these organizational changes and new assignments will help position us to meet our current mission deliverables and help us achieve key Laboratory priorities to enhance and expand our mission in the broad national security space,” Albright said.