As Deputy Assistant Secretary for Corporate Business Operations, Robert Lange is responsible for all personnel, budget, and technical oversight activities within the Office of Nuclear Energy.

Mr. Lange has over 30 years of experience managing high technology projects, in progressively more senior positions.

He has managed component development for advanced power plants, led the development of an advanced nuclear power plant design, and served as DOE Headquarters program manager for major nuclear facilities. He was Director of the SP-100 Space Reactor Program, Director of Advanced Light Water Plant Designs, and Office Director for the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Program, which supplied special nuclear power sources for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In 1997, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was launched on a mission to Saturn, powered by nuclear sources provided by the office for which Mr. Lange was Director.

Mr. Lange served as lead technical expert on space nuclear power sources at the United Nations and led an effort that resulted in the adoption of internationally recognized principles governing the safe use of these devices. He is a patent holder for a U.S. weapons system that has been installed on 450 U.S. and foreign ships.

Mr. Lange received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland and his M.S. degree in engineering administration from George Washington University. He received his naval commission from Naval Officers Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and served as assistant engineering officer aboard a guided missile destroyer.