Acting NNSA Chief Bookless Leaving on Inauguration Day

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William Bookless will resign as acting administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration on inauguration day,Jan. 20, setting up career civil servant David Huizenga to shepherd the nuclear-weapons agency through the early daysof the Joe Biden administration.Bookless announced his impending departure Monday in an all-hands memo to National Nuclear Security Administration(NNSA) staff. Bookless has led the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency since the first week of November,when Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette demanded that Lisa Gordon-Hagerty resign as administrator.