Marvin L. Adams is a nuclear engineer and computational physicist. Since April 2022, he has served as Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the Biden administration.

Education

Adams received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan in nuclear engineering and his B.S. degree from

Mississippi State University Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Unive ...

Career

From 1986 until 1992, Adams worked at

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

(LLNL) as a physicist. From 1992 until 2022, he was a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Texas A&M University. He is currently a member of the stockpile assessment team of the Strategic Advisory Group for the U.S. Strategic Command, the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and the Predictive Science Panel for LNLL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He is also chairman of the Mission Committee and member of the Science, Technology, and Engineering Committee. Adams served in various roles for the U.S

national security National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection against military atta ...

. In September 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Adams to the

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council, chartered (or re-chartered) in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST w ...

(PCAST). Two months later, President Biden announced the nomination of Adams to become deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration. The nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 6, 2022, and Adams was sworn in on April 11, 2022.

References

Living people Nuclear engineers University of Michigan alumni Mississippi State University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Biden administration personnel {{US-engineer-stub