Betty L. Huck serves as the Manager for the Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Nevada Field Office (NFO). She is a member of the Senior Executive Service. She is responsible for overall administration of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) contract, oversight of contractor operations, and the direction of NFO programs, projects, and administrative functions to accomplish NNSA's missions in stockpile stewardship, nuclear nonproliferation, counterterrorism, national and international emergency response, environmental management, and science and technology development.
The NNSS supports high-hazard operations, experiments, training, diagnostics and instrumentation, data analysis, and materials staging; conducts criticality experiments; provides research experimental facilities for nuclear nonproliferation and counterterrorism activities; and supports low-level radioactive waste material disposition. The complex also executes a significant Strategic Partnership Program mission, supporting such initiatives as threat reduction, first responder training, and sensor development.
Within the NFO, Huck has held multiple leadership positions providing oversight and contract performance evaluation of high-hazard and nuclear operations, non-nuclear research and development, strategic partnership programs, nuclear and non-nuclear safety, emergency management, continuity of operations, and nuclear security programs.
Prior to joining the NFO, Huck supported the DOE, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community in the areas of nuclear energy, nuclear propulsion, advanced technologies, counterproliferation, and counterterrorism for 15 years.
Huck holds a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.