WISDOM, TOP FEDERAL SECURITY OFFICIAL AT NNSA PRODUCTION OFFICE, RETIRES

Gary Wisdom, the top federal security official at the NNSA Production Office, retired Friday and is being replaced by Arnold Guevara, the director of DOE’s Office of Headquarters Security Operations in Washington, D.C. Wisdom served as the Assistant Manager for Safeguards and Security since the production office was established to oversee the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant in June of 2012, leading much of the federal reaction to last year’s security breach at Y-12. Wisdom previously was the Assistant Manager for Safeguards and Security at the Pantex Site Office and was stationed at Pantex when the Y-12 security breach occurred, forcing him to spend much of the last year in Oak Ridge. He also previously worked as the director of the Office of Inspections in DOE’s Office of Security Evaluations and as the chief of Security Operations at Rocky Flats. NPO Manager Steve Erhart said he accepted Wisdom’s retirement “with tremendous regret for the loss of an outstanding leader and a true professional.  He is one of the most respected and accomplished leaders in the Department of Energy for the management of strategic and operational nuclear safeguards and security.”