The Senate Armed Services Committee will hear testimony Tuesday morning from President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation for the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration.
Matthew Napoli, the administration’s nominee to be deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation of the National Nuclear Security Administration, is scheduled to testify alongside two other defense nominees during a confirmation hearing Tuesday to start at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time in Dirksen Senate Office Building, room G50.
According to Napoli’s Linkedin profile, he was most recently the executive director of foreign and public affairs at the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, a joint DOE and Navy organization. He was also an officer in the Navy from 2004 to 2009.
Napoli received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 2004, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 2006, and a doctorate degree in public policy and public administration, science and technology policy from George Washington University in 2019.
