NNSA’S POWERS HEADS TO POST AT NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LAB

Senior National Nuclear Security Administration official Ken Powers is leaving the agency for a post at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Powers, the Associate Administrator for Management and Budget, will formally leave the agency Friday and begin work at NREL March 5. His deputy, Cindy Lersten, will head up the NNSA Office of Management and Budget in an acting capacity until a permanent replacement is named. Powers served as the head of the office for less than a year, taking over for Gerald Talbot last spring. He had served as Talbot’s deputy for several months, and before that as the agency’s Associate Administrator for Infrastructure and Environment. Powers came to the NNSA from DOE’s Office of Project Management within its Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and he had previously served as the deputy manager of the Nevada Operations Office and the deputy director of the NNSA Service Center.