Terry Wallace retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory last week after a nearly 20-year lab career, which he capped by running the site on an interim basis in 2018, during the transition to non-profit management and operations contractor Triad National Security.
Wallace’s last day was June 30, the lab announced in a retrospective published Thursday. Wallace, a New Mexico native, had spent about a year-and-a-half at Los Alamos as the director emeritus after his roughly nine-month stint as interim director in 2018. He succeeded Charles McMillan in the top spot and was succeeded by Thom Mason, the current director.
Before overseeing the transition to Triad from the for-profit Los Alamos National Security partnership, led by Bechtel National and the University of California, Wallace had been Los Alamos’ principal associate director for global security since 2011. In that role, he led “Laboratory programs with a focus on applying scientific and engineering capabilities to address national and global security threats, in particular, nuclear threats,” according to a lab bio. He had worked at LANL since 2003.
Wallace has a doctorate and master’s degrees in geophysics from California Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s in geophysics and mathematics from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
