PANTEX FED TO SERVE AS ACTING DEPUTY MANAGER OF NNSA PRODUCTION OFFICE

Karl Waltzer is serving as the acting deputy manager of the NNSA Production Office, agency spokesman Steven Wyatt said yesterday. Waltzer is replacing Dan Hoag, who was reassigned to the Oak Ridge Site Office in the wake of the July 28 security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Hoag had been the senior-most federal official that had been stationed at Y-12 when the NNSA Production Office was created through the merger of the Y-12 and Pantex site offices, and he is expected to provide senior level technical support to the Office of Science while a review of the organizational structure of security oversight and chain of command is completed. Waltzer has been stationed at Pantex, where he served as the senior scientific and technical advisor for the NNSA Production Office.