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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographical Information
Pages 47-53

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... He is the former Deputy Administrator of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
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... Before joining Lockheed Martin, he was the DOE's Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs. For more than 28 years -- from 1961 to 1990, he held senior leadership positions at Sandia National Laboratories, including vice president, Defense Programs; vice president, Energy Programs; and director, Waste Management Programs.
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... ROBERT KUCKUCK is retired from the University of California and is currently consulting and serving on advisory boards for the national nuclear weapons research laboratories. He is currently a member of the Nuclear Weapons External Advisory Board for Sandia National Laboratories and serves on ad hoc review panels for nuclear weapons issues.
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... He has research and solution delivery experience (from concept development to operation of boutique commercial production and sales) in diverse areas spanning defense, national security, energy technologies, medical systems, optical and wireless communications, and advanced software for command and control applications for DOD and civilian first responders.
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... Przybylek was the chief counsel for NNSA's A ­ lbuquerque Operations Office. There, he twice served as the deputy manager and also served as site manager for the Los Alamos Site Office.
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... His career in the DOE national laboratories began at LLNL in the 1960s when he was one of the two participants in the Nth Country Experiment to design a nuclear explosive from unclassified information. After moving to LANL in 1979, he served as the division leader of the Applied Theoretical Physics Division, as associate director for Theoretical and Computational Physics, and as the first director of the Los Alamos Center for National Security Studies.
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... An internationally renowned researcher, he formerly served as the Yamada Corporation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was founding chair of its Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, and professor in its Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering. Tien joined the ­ ensselaer R faculty in 1977 and twice served as its acting dean of engineering.
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