Klotz Completes Lab Visit, Touring Additive Manufacturing, High Explosives Application Facility
NS&D Monitor
7/18/2014
New National Nuclear Security Administration chief Frank Klotz continued his tour of the weapons complex, visiting Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this week. Klotz’s two-day visit included updates on various programs such as national security, high energy density physics, cyber security, and Work for Others, as well as tours of the lab’s additive manufacturing facility and High Explosives Application Facility. He also met with laboratory Director Bill Goldstein and other officials and conducted an all-hands meeting, as he has in other site visits. According to Livermore spokeswoman Lynda Seaver, Klotz did not tour the National Ignition Facility or take a look at the lab’s High Performance Computing capabilities because he already has seen those projects during a previous visit to the lab as the head of Air Force Global Strike Command.
Since he was confirmed by the Senate in April, Klotz has visited almost every site across the weapons complex. He first visited the Nevada National Security Site, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and then took trips to the Y-12 National Security Complex (which he’s visited twice), the Pantex Plant, and the Kansas City Plant. The only site he hasn’t visited is the Savannah River Site.
