Raymond J. Juzaitis

In 2017 Dr. Raymond Juzaitis joined TechSource as a Member of its Board of Directors. Dr. Juzaitis is an accomplished scientist/engineer, manager, and educator with more than 40 years of experience in the management and execution of nuclear weapons, nuclear non-proliferation, intelligence, counter terrorism, homeland security and related research and development programs. His extensive experience spans computational physics, uranium enrichment, nuclear science and engineering, nuclear materials, nuclear testing and experimentation, arms control and verification, nuclear proliferation, and nuclear engineering education.

Prior to joining TechSource Dr. Juzaitis was the President of National Security Technologies, LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the time NSTec was the M&O contractor to the National Nuclear Security Administration for operation of the 1,360 square-mile Nevada National Security Site. Before that, Dr. Juzaitis served as Professor and Department Head of the Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Department where he oversaw academic and administrative operations of the largest Nuclear Engineering Department in the United States.

Dr. Juzaitis’s early career focus in computational physics paved the way for a broadly based technical career that included nuclear weapons design, development, testing and evaluation. Career assignments included senior advisory positions for the U.S. Government at the Pentagon, as well as in Defense Programs at the Department of Energy.

Over the last two decades, Dr. Juzaitis served in technical and line management positions with increasing levels of responsibility, and covering the full breadth of nuclear weapon technology activities. In the 1990s, as X-Division Leader at Los Alamos he led the transition in the technical culture of nuclear weapons design from a nuclear testing based paradigm to a simulation based paradigm (Science Based Stockpile Stewardship). Dr. Juzaitis served in senior management positions at both U.S. nuclear weapon physics laboratories, including serving as Associate Director for Weapons Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Associate Director for Non-Proliferation, Homeland, and International Security (NHI) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL).

His continuing research and consulting effort involves technology and policy elements of proliferation risk, focusing on nuclear weapons latency inherent in global nuclear energy capabilities and infrastructure.

Dr. Juzaitis grew up outside of Philadelphia, PA, and attended Princeton University where he received a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering. He later earned an M.E. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Virginia. He has been married to Helen for forty-one years and has two grown children living in Washington, DC.T