Infrastructure & Environment Leadership

Thad T. Konopnicki
Associate Administrator for NNSA's Office of Infrastructure and Environment

Thad Konopnicki is the associate administrator for NNSA's Office of Infrastructure and Environment.  In this capacity, he will be responsible for the management of the Office of Infrastructure and Environment, and overseeing the Offices of Infrastructure and Facilities Management, Project Management and Systems Support, Environmental Projects and Operations, and Nuclear Materials Consolidation.

Mr. Konopnicki has 30 years of experience in the areas of project management and cost and schedule estimating and control. He has 19 years of federal government experience in the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, including 11 years at the Senior Executive Service (SES) level.  Mr. Konopnicki has extensive experience in independent project reviews, government contracting, cost and schedule estimating, earned value management systems, and project management systems and is considered an expert in those areas.  He has 11 years of experience in the private sector in systems engineering, cost estimating and cost research, and architect/engineer firms.  In addition, he developed the most comprehensive Project Management Career Development Program in existence in the federal government.  read bio>