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Appendix E: Committee Member Biographies
Appendix E: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 127-134
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During her Sandia career, she worked on a wide variety of programs, including nuclear weapons, chemical and biological defense, missile defense, and solar energy, and provided leadership for a number of the laboratory's energy, national security and homeland security programs. She is a member of the DoD's Defense Science Board and Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.
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The energy, security and defense technologies organization primarily supports Sandia's mission efforts in energy and resource systems research and development, nuclear power, environmental quality, the reduction of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the global threat of terrorism, and the protection of nuclear and other vital national assets. Jill will also lead Sandia's International, Homeland, and Nuclear Security Strategic Management
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This initiative focuses on all aspects of nuclear security including nonproliferation, technology support to arms control activity, global nuclear security and threat reduction, nuclear asset protection and detection and response to weapons of mass destruction. Most recently the director of Homeland Security and Defense Systems at Sandia's Livermore, Calif., site, she has been with Sandia for more than 25 years.
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He comes to Colorado State University from the University of New Mexico Health Science Center in Albuquerque where he was professor of medicine and director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Immunology. His scientific expertise is in developing animal models of human diseases that can be used to translate products into humans.
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He also led forensic investigative aspects of a number of major terrorism cases, and initiated a number of new programs for both the FBI Laboratory and technical investigative program. Toward the end of his career, he was detailed from the FBI to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
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In 2000 he began to build a pathogen bioinformatics team at LLNL pioneering a novel whole-genome analysis approach to DNA signature design. His team developed signature targets for multiple human pathogens that were used at the 2002 winter Olympic Games under the BASIS program and later adapted for use nationwide in the Department of Homeland Security BioWatch program.
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Willis is a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, the acting director of the RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center, and a senior policy researcher at RAND Corporation. His research has applied risk analysis tools to the study of public policy in the areas of counterterrorism, disaster response and emergency preparedness, public health and safety, energy systems, and environmental pollution control.
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. He has served as a member for the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee for the Department of Defense, chairing the ChemBiowarfare Defense Panel and also has been a participant in the Biodefense Network Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security.
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