FPN10-03
Don Cook Nominated for NNSA Deputy Post
January 4, 2010
President Obama has nominated Dr. Donald L. Cook to become Deputy
Administrator for Defense Programs at the U.S. Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Don worked at Sandia
National Laboratories in Albuquerque from 1977 to 2006 on a variety of
programs including inertial confinement fusion. He managed Sandia's
inertial confinement fusion program (1984-1993) and pulsed power
program (1993-1999). He served on Fusion Power Associates Board of
Directors and was the recipient of the 1993 FPA Leadership Award.
From 1999-2006, he managed the microsystems and engineering sciences
applications (MESA) program at Sandia. From 2006-2009 he was managing
director of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in the United
Kingdom.
Don is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and the UK-based Institute of Physics.