NNSA’S BOOKLESS HEADS TO BROOKHAVEN

Senior National Nuclear Security Administration official William Bookless has been named Brookhaven National Laboratory’s associate director for policy and strategic planning. Bookless, a longtime staff research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will begin work at Brookhaven Jan. 3, replacing J. Patrick Looney, who is chairing the lab’s Sustainable Energy Technologies Department. The lab said Bookless will help plan the direction of its scientific programs and oversee its Laboratory Directed Research and Development and technology transfer programs. Bookless spent 32 years at Livermore, but has served as a senior advisor for policy planning, assessment and analysis to NNSA Administrator Tom D’Agostino since 2009. “I am excited to join the outstanding staff and management team at Brookhaven and to help create the next phase of the Laboratory’s contributions to the science community and the nation’s economy,” Bookless said in a statement.