National Nuclear Security Administration facility in Albuquerque to be named for first administrator

The future home of some 1,200 National Nuclear Security Administration staff members based in Albuquerque will carry the name of the agency’s first administrator.

The John A. Gordon Albuquerque Complex is scheduled to be ready for NNSA staff late next year. The project, announced in May 2018, will replace 25 separate buildings and facilities, some of which were constructed in the 1940s.

Appointed as the first NNSA Administrator in 2000, Gordon led the agency until June 2002. He then served as assistant…

Source: The Business Journal