Michael Kluse, former director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state, has joined the Longenecker & Associates strategic advisory board.
Currently a consultant, Kluse headed PNNL, operated by Battelle for the Department of Energy, from January 2007 through March 2015. While heading the national laboratory, he was also a senior vice president for Battelle.
L&A President John Longenecker said in a news release this week that Kluse would bring the company board “a wealth of knowledge about the Department of Energy’s national laboratories and the entire DOE science enterprise.”
Kluse first joined Battelle in 1976 at its Columbus, Ohio, offices as a defense and space systems research scientist. Before assuming the helm of PNNL, Kluse was vice president of Battelle’s defense engineering branch and vice president/general manager of Battelle’s navy business. In 1997, he was named to head PNNL’s national security directorate. He held that post for 10 years before becoming lab director.
Kluse holds a bachelor’s degree in systems analysis from Miami University in Ohio, and a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio State University.
Longenecker & Associates currently lists about 20 members on its advisory board, which meets several times a year to provide strategic guidance to the company. Founded in 1989, Las Vegas-based L&A provides technical and management support to clients in the nuclear and environmental markets.
