By: TOP500 Team

Sandia National Laboratories has named Jill Hruby to its highest post. When Hruby officially take the reins of the nation’s largest laboratory on July 17, she becomes Sandia’s 14th director in its 60-plus year history as well as the first woman to lead one of the three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories.

As director of Sandia National Laboratories and president of Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, which operates Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Hruby will be in charge of keeping Sandia’s 10,800 staff members and $2.6 billion budget aligned with Sandia’s primary mission: “ensuring the U.S. nuclear arsenal is safe, secure, reliable, and can fully support our nation’s deterrence policy.”

The staff and budget numbers are healthy and reflect the solid leadership of outgoing Sandia director Paul Hommert, who is retiring July 16 after a five-year tenure.

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