Rich Mah, PhD

Director of Weapons Design and Manufacturing - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Richard Mah is the Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear Weapons Engineering and Manufacturing.  In this capacity, he is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the engineering and manufacturing aspects of the nuclear weapons program in fulfillment of the stockpile stewardship mission at Los Alamos.  Rich has management oversight of the Nuclear Materials Technology Division, the Engineering Sciences and Application Division, and the Integrated Product Team for Pit Manufacturing.

In 25 years at the Laboratory, Rich has held various line and program management positions.  He managed two non-nuclear materials technology research groups in metallurgy and in polymers and coatings and had oversight of two large research facilities, the Target Fabrication Facility and the Sigma Complex.  He directed the Nuclear Weapons Complex Reconfiguration Program tasked with restructuring the nation's post-cold-war weapons complex.  He managed the Advanced Technology Assessment Center with responsibility for conventional ordnance and advanced armor/anti-armor programs.  In various assignments, he also had product engineering responsibility for five nuclear weapons systems at Los Alamos and before that at the Rocky Flats facility.  Most recently, Rich directed the Laboratory's technology transfer activities in the Industrial Business Development Program Office.

Rich is a registered professional engineer through the State of California.  He received the Laboratory Distinguished Performance Award and the DOE Award of Excellence in acknowledgement of his management and engineering accomplishments.  He has also been recognized for his commitment to employees with a Diversity Award and an Outstanding Mentor Award.