Andrew McIlroy has become associate laboratories director for the Sandia National Laboratories California campus in Livermore, Calif., the New Mexico-based laboratory system said Wednesday.
McIlroy now will lead the smaller, satellite campus of the main U.S. nuclear-weapon engineering laboratory, which employs about 1,000 people. Among other things, the campus includes the combustion research facility that studies conventional chemical explosions. McIlroy began his Sandia career there in 1991 as a postdoctoral researcher, Sandia said.
McIlroy was most recently director of Energy and Homeland Security Program Management Center.
McIlroy replaces Dori Ellis, who in June became deputy director for the whole Sandia system. Ellis could become Sandia’s acting director after current director Stephen Younger retires on Dec. 31.
The Honeywell-owned National Engineering and Technology Solutions of Sandia manages the Sandia National Laboratories under a 10-year National Nuclear Security Administration contract awarded in 2016 and worth about $25 billion, including options. The company is in the second year of the contract’s five-year base period.
