Career Development Workshop. The NGFP Career Development Workshop and Career Fair will be Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2024, in Washington, DC.

If you know a company or organization that would like to participate, let us know at NGFP@pnnl.gov.

Hispanic Heritage Month. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month in October, NNSA highlighted Maria del Carmen Corte, who is supporting the Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence.

She helps implementation and sustainability initiatives that are focused on countering nuclear smuggling in the Central Asian Region, particularly in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. She has also supported NNSA on a visit to the Nuclear Security Center of Excellence in Lithuania.

Nuclear Monitoring. Adeline du Crest attended meetings, as part of her NNSA duties, in Budapest alongside the State Department - Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance and the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

The meetings were part the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification to explore nuclear monitoring and verification challenges. The international partners are identifying challenges associated with nuclear disarmament verification and developing potential procedures and technologies to address those challenges.

New Voices. Grace Williams attended the New Voices: 2023 Conference on Diversity in Nuclear Policy, which was hosted by the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on July 13, 2023.

Assistant Deputy Administrator

Office of Global Material Security

National Nuclear Security Administration

U.S. Department of Energy

(NGFP Class of 2006-2007)

It is hard to pick just one! I think the highlight for me would be all the places I have been able to visit around the world that I never would have visited as a tourist! At NNSA, I found a career that has allowed me to combine my interest in public service and national security with my love of international relations and meeting people around the globe.

Continuing with the travel theme, a few personal highlights would be visiting the Great Wall of China and the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. I am also really honored to have been selected for the Assistant Deputy Administrator position within the Office of Global Material Security (GMS). We have a great team in GMS, and I am really proud of all of the great work our team has accomplished.

It is probably the friendships that I formed with my fellow classmates. I am the last fellow from my class still at NNSA, but I still keep in touch with a number of them. It is great to see all of the different things that they have gone on to do. While I was a fellow, I also got to visit the Nevada test site, which was a pretty incredible experience!

Bego Aranguren (Class of 2022–2023), NNSA program analyst, was featured during Hispanic Heritage Month in October. She manages NNSA technical projects at national laboratories that look at developing technologies for safeguarding existing nuclear reactors, as well as proposed advanced reactors and their associated nuclear fuel cycles.

Brett Cox (Class of 2016–2017) was highlighted in NNSA's Profiles in Nonproliferation. He "coordinates teams of nuclear technology experts to reduce the amount of nuclear material around the world that could fall into the wrong hands." He is a foreign affairs specialist in the Office of Conversion (NA-231).

To read more spotlights of NGFP alums, visit the NNSA news articles.

Sign up to be a speaker! Our agenda of professional development events is filling up quickly. If you are interested in joining us for a session or would like to share other networking or training opportunities to help fellows connect within the nuclear security enterprise, contact NGFP@pnnl.gov.