The Senate Armed Services Committee was set Thursday to question the Joe Biden administration’s nominee to fill the final Senate-confirmed leadership post at the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Biden nominated Corey Hinderstein to deputy administration for defense nuclear nonproliferation on Aug. 9. She is currently vice president of international fuel cycle strategies at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington and last worked in the government at the Pentagon and the National Nuclear Security Administration during then-President Barack Obama’s second term. At NNSA she was senior coordinator for nuclear security and nonproliferation policy affairs at the silo she would lead, if approved by the Armed Services Committee and confirmed by the Senate.
Hinderstein has a bachelor’s degree in Government and International Relations from Clark University, according to her LinkedIn profile.
If confirmed, Hinderstein would run a portfolio funded at more than $2 billion a year. NNSA defense nuclear nonproliferation programs include efforts to track radioactive materials domestically and internationally, remove gamma-emitting cesium sources from hospitals and deweaponize tons of excess weapon-usable plutonium.
Hinderstein’s confirmation hearing was ongoing at deadline for Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.
