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Thursday, April 3, 2008 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

On November 4, 2008, the next President of the United States will be elected; on January 20, 2009, he or she will take office and the next administration will begin to face a series of issues related to the domestic and international nuclear enterprise. During the past year, a small group at the Department of Energy (DOE) has been analyzing these issues with a view toward providing the Presidential and DOE transition team an objective perspective on how the U.S. nuclear enterprise--nuclear weapons, power, and materials--can play a pivotal role in our current and future national security and economic well being, and in the global environment (including climate change). This talk will review the results of this DOE effort so far.

Victor H. Reis is Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary, Department of Energy, with primary responsibility for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, part of President George W. Bush’s Advanced Energy Initiative. He is also a member Strategic Advisory Group of the U.S. Strategic Command. From 1999 to 2005 Reis was Senior Vice President of Hicks and Associates, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he led the Nuclear Strategies Project. He served as a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the U.S. Strategic Command, the Sandia National Laboratory National Security Advisory Panel, the Argonne National Laboratory Board of Governors, the NNSA’s Predictive Science and Independent Capability Review Committees, and chaired the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory National Security Panel, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Weapons Physics External Review Committee. Reis served as Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs in the U.S. Department of Energy from 1993 to 1999, where he lead the development of the DOE’s Stockpile Stewardship Program. From 1991 to 1993 he was Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E) at the Pentagon, the principal advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for scientific and technical matters, basic and applied research, laboratories and early development of defense weapons systems. He also chaired the Nuclear Weapons Council. Earlier, he served as Deputy Director and then Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has been Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning, SAIC; Assistant Director for National Security and Space, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, (OSTP); senior staff member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory and other positions in industry and government. He was a member of the Director of Central Intelligence Science and Technology Advisory Panel and participated in numerous advisory panels for the Department of Defense, (Defense Science Board), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Research Council. Reis earned a B.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (1957) an M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University (1958); and an M.A. and Ph.D.(1962) from Princeton University. His many awards include two Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medals. He has authored numerous scientific and policy publications.

This event appears on the following calendars:

• College of Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics*
• OSU Events: Lectures / Seminars