On the morning of Sept. 7, Congresswoman, Teresa Leger Fernández found her way on a four-wheel-drive vehicle to an isolated, burnt-out, mountain top barely three miles west of Las Vegas,
Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geri Richmond recently testified about the department’s organizational efforts to increase interchange between basic research, applied R&D, and deployment initiatives. Meanwhile, a number of senior R&D leadership roles at the department remain unfilled.