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U.S. Response: National Laboratories Establish Homeland Security Focus Officials at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced a major reorganization of the facility Tuesday to prepare for a role in the newly created U.S. Homeland Security Department (see GSN, Nov. 19). The laboratory’s new organization will help it better coordinate $50 million in research funds that it expects to receive from the new department in its first year, according to the Contra Costa Times. Wayne Shotts, now head of Lawrence Livermore’s nonproliferation, arms control and international security division, has been chosen to head the facility’s new Homeland Security Organization. “We are very pleased that Lawrence Livermore has organized itself to respond to this challenge,” said Parney Albright, senior director for research and development in the White House Homeland Security Office. “We expect to have a very, very powerful capability,” Albright added. Because of its research capabilities, Lawrence Livermore will house a majority of the 500 scientists expected to work for the new department, Albright said. “When these people go home at night, we want them to tell their wives and kids they work for Homeland Security,” he added (Andrea Widener, Contra Costa Times, Dec. 11). On Monday, Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the creation of its Center for Homeland Security, to be headed by 11-year laboratory veteran Thomas Meyer. Meyer most recently has worked in Washington as director of the Advanced Technologies office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the laboratory said. “The development and staffing of our Center for Homeland Security allows the laboratory to present a cohesive, action-oriented approach to our homeland security work,” said Los Alamos Director John Browne. “The laboratory’s long history of achievements in the science, technology and analysis related to the nation’s security will be focused through this center, ensuring that government agencies needing our assistance are immediately connected with the right people,” he added. The new center will specialize in infrastructure protection, radiological and nuclear issues, chemical and biological programs and simulation technologies, according to a Los Alamos release (Los Alamos release, Dec. 9).
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