{{Short description|American nuclear engineer and computational physicist}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Marvin Adams | image = Marvin Adams, NNSA Deputy Administrator.jpg | office = Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration for Defense Programs | term_start = April 11, 2022 | term_end = | president = Joe Biden | predecessor = Charles P. Verdon | successor = | birth_name = Marvin L. Adams }}
'''Marvin L. Adams'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adams, Marvin |url=https://engineering.tamu.edu/nuclear/profiles/madams.html |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=engineering.tamu.edu |language=en}}</ref> is a nuclear engineer and computational physicist. Since April 2022, he has served as Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the Biden administration.<ref name="DOE bio">{{cite web|title=Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs|url=https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/person/marvin-marv-adams|website=energy.gov|access-date=2022-09-08}}</ref>
==Education== Adams received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan in nuclear engineering and his B.S. degree from Mississippi State University.<ref name="NNSA confirmation">{{cite web|title=Senate confirms Marvin Adams for key nuclear safety post |url=https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2022/04/senate-confirms-marvin-adams-for-key-nuclear-safety-post.html|website=engineering.tamu.edu|access-date=2022-09-08}}</ref>
==Career== From 1986 until 1992, Adams worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a physicist. From 1992 until 2022, he was a professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Texas A&M University.<ref name="NNSA confirmation" />
He is currently a member of the stockpile assessment team of the Strategic Advisory Group for the U.S. Strategic Command, the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and the Predictive Science Panel for LNLL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He is also chairman of the Mission Committee and member of the Science, Technology, and Engineering Committee. Adams served in various roles for the U.S. national security.<ref name="DOE bio" /><ref name="NNSA nom">{{citation-attribution|1={{cite web |title=President Biden Announces Key Diplomatic and Agency Nominees |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/15/president-biden-announces-key-diplomatic-and-agency-nominees/ |publisher=The White House |access-date=9 September 2022 |date=15 December 2021}} }}</ref>
In September 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Adams to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).<ref>{{cite web|title=Biden picks ANS Fellow to lead NNSA defense programs|url=https://www.ans.org/news/article-3520/biden-picks-ans-fellow-to-lead-nnsa-defense-programs/|website=ans.org|access-date=2022-09-08}}</ref> Two months later, President Biden announced the nomination of Adams to become deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration.<ref name="NNSA nom" /> The nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 6, 2022,<ref>{{cite web |title=PN1673 — Marvin L. Adams — Department of Energy 117th Congress (2021-2022) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/1673 |website=US Congress |date = 6 April 2022|access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref> and Adams was sworn in on April 11, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/dr-marvin-l-adams-sworn-deputy-administrator-nnsas-office-defense-programs|title=Dr. Marvin L. Adams sworn in as Deputy Administrator for NNSA's Office of Defense Programs|date=2022-04-11|publisher=United States Department of Energy|access-date=2022-04-12}}</ref>
{{Blockquote |text=“I am grateful to President Biden for nominating Marvin Adams to serve as Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Marvin is a unique success story, having started his career at a DOE Lab and now regarded as the nation’s foremost academic expert on safeguarding our nuclear stockpile.” |author=Jennifer Granholm, United States Secretary of Energy<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement by Secretary Granholm on President Biden's Nomination of Marvin Adams|url=https://www.energy.gov/articles/statement-secretary-granholm-president-bidens-nomination-marvin-adams|website=energy.gov|access-date=2023-04-03}}</ref> }}
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