National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia appointed D.E. “Dori” Ellis deputy director of the nation’s nuclear-weapons-technology lab, the Honeywell-owned lab-manager announced Wednesday.
Ellis will be the lab’s No. 2 executive behind director Stephen Younger. She will replace David Douglass, who will retire in June, according to a lab press release.
Ellis is a longtime Sandia hand who spent more than 30 years with the Albuquerque, N.M.- and California-based lab from 1978 to 2011. She departed early this decade only to return as part of the Honeywell led team that snagged the lab’s management and operations contract in 2017.
Sandia picked Ellis as the new deputy “after a nationwide executive search,” Younger said in the press release.
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) manages Sandia. The lab designs the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, including safety features. It also tests nuclear weapons hardware in extreme environments to make sure weapons can safely survive fires and long falls, among other things.
