May 29, 2014

MONIZ ANNOUNCES PICKS FOR LAB EFFECTIVENESS PANEL

By ExchangeMonitor

Former Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon and former Deputy Energy Secretary T.J. Glauthier will chair a nine-member Congressionally mandated Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said yesterday as he announced the members of the panel. Moniz selected the members of the panel from a list of 27 possible candidates submitted by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST originally submitted 18, but another nine were needed because of scheduling conflicts). In addition to Cohon and Glauthier, the panel includes: former Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine, Aerospace Corporation President and CEO Wanda Austin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi, Yale Engineering and Applied Physics Professor Paul Fleury, former MIT President Susan Hockfield, former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Dick Meserve, and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry Murray.

Notably, Glauthier and Augustine are serving on the separate Congressionally mandated National Nuclear Security Administration governance panel. “The Energy Department’s national laboratories are a leading force in driving U.S. scientific and technological innovation and advancing the Department’s science, energy, environmental, and national security missions,” Moniz said in a statement. “I want to thank the Commission members for their expertise and look forward to working with them to ensure we leverage the national laboratories’ unique capabilities to fulfill our missions.”

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