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Mike BurnsSandia National LaboratoriesP.O. Box 5800, MS-1231Albuquerque, NM 87185-1231

Phone: (505) 844-2215Email: mjburns@sandia.gov

As the National Security Programs Associate Labs Director for Sandia National

Laboratories, Mike Burns manages Strategic Partnership projects for the U.S.

Department of Defense and other federal government departments and

agencies, Strategic Intelligence Partnership projects for the U.S. Intelligence

Community, and industrial partnerships.

Before joining Sandia, Mike spent more than 32 years in the national laboratory system, most recently as

the Integrated Weapons Experiment ( J) Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), managing

high-explosives and energetic materials experiments. Previously at LANL, he was Deputy Principal Associate

Director for Global Security Programs, Director of the Field Intelligence Element, Deputy Principal Associate

Director for Capital Projects, Acting Associate Director for the predecessor organization to Global Security,

Acting Principal Deputy Associate Director of the Weapons Physics Directorate, and Acting Associate Deputy

Director for National Security.

Prior to LANL, Mike served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Nuclear Defense

Policy on the Homeland Security Council staff. Earlier, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, he

was the founding director of the Office of National Laboratories and Director of Stewardship Planning

within the department’s Science and Technology Directorate. He also worked with the International

Atomic Energy Agency’s Iraq Nuclear Verification Office as a nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq.

B I O G R A P H YMike BurnsNational Security Programs Associate Labs DirectorSandia National Laboratories