Pace VanDevender was a long-time Director of Pulsed Power Sciences at Sandia and was for many years a member of Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors. During most of the 1980s and into the mid-1990s, he was responsible for Sandia's efforts in pulsed power R&D, inertial confinement fusion research, nuclear weapons simulations, directed energy weapons R&D, and commercial applications of pulsed power. In 1992, he received DOE's prestigious Ernest O. Lawrence Award "for his outstanding contributions to the generation of pulsed power."

From 1996-1998, Pace was on technology transfer leave from Sandia as President of the Prosperity Institute, returning to Sandia in February 1998 as Director of the Strategic Sciences Center. He has held a number of senior executive positions at Sandia since that time

He can be reached at jpvande@sandia.gov