United States Department of Energy

Leadership & Staff

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Daniel Monahan Former US Airforce Pilot | Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Astrolabe Enterprises, Inc

• Deputy Director (Mar '19→?)

Jennifer Granholm Secretary of the Department of Energy

• Secretary [+1]

• Secretary

Juan Andrés Caro

• special advisor (May '20→?)*

Rita Barnwal Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy

• Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy [+1]

• Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy

Sanjay Bose

• senior technical advisor (Feb '19→?)

Wells Griffith DOE fossil fuel pimp Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of International Affairs

• Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of International Affairs (Jan 20 '17→?)

Jeffrey Salmon Dick Cheney, Marshall Institute, and DOE

• Deputy Director, Resource Management (Jul '08→?) [+3]

• Associate Under Secretary for Science ('06→Jul '08)

• Chief of Staff to the Director of the Office of Science ('02→'06)

• Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy (Mar '01→'02)

Heidi VanGenderen Director of Public Engagement in the Office of Congressional & Intergovernmental Affairs, DOE

• Director of Public Engagement in the Office of Congressional & Intergovernmental Affairs

Jonathan Elkind assistant secretary for international affairs, Department of Energy

• assistant secretary for international affairs ('13→?)

Paula Gant Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas

• Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas

Donations

TerraPower LLC Bill Gates' nuclear power company, HQ Washington State

• grant · 80,000,000 USD (Oct '20)

Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory Research consortium led by WVU and Ohio State

• Grant · 11,000,000 USD ('14)

GeneSys Research Institute, Inc. Non-profit organization that manages the finances of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology

• grant · 6,000,000 USD ('09→'14)

Battelle Memorial Institute The world’s largest independent research and development organization

• Grant · 1,800,000 USD*

Virtual Human Interaction Lab Stanford University Created 2003, Virtual Reality

• Sponsor

iCeNSA Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science & Applications at Notre Dame Data Science Focused on Social, Biological, Physical, Environmental, Financial & Defense Systems

• Sponsor

STRONGER State Review of Oil and Natural Gas Environmental Regulations

• Grant

Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon

• Donation

Harvard Electricity Policy Group Research program at the Harvard Kennedy School

• Donation

Child Organizations

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National Energy Technology Laboratory Owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

• Child Org

Secretary of Energy Advisory Board

• Child Org

Naval Nuclear Laboratory Responsible for developing advanced naval nuclear propulsion technology

• laboratory ('46→?)

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

• parent agency ('09→?)

Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

• Office

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Responsible for overseeing the nation’s nuclear weapons complex

• Child Org

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University

• Child Org

Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Part of the Department of Energy

• Child Org

Argonne National Laboratory Department of Energy's science and engineering research laboratory

• Child Org

Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management DOE’s Office responsible for developing a geologic repository system for the disposal of commercial origin and defense origin spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, together with the nec

• Child Org

Parents

Executive Branch Led by the president and vice president

• Parent Org

Memberships

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Formerly National Petrochemical & Refiners Association

• Member

Career Pathways Program US government program created and run by 13 federal departments

• Member

Intelligence Community (IC) Group of US federal intelligence and security agencies

• Member agency

The Center for Earth Materials, Mechanics, and Characterization A multidisciplinary research facility at the Colorado School of Mines

• Member

Services & Transactions

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Hanford Tank Waste Operations and Closure

• contractor · 45,000,000,000 USD (Apr '24→?)

Lockheed Martin Corporation Defense, aeronautics, and systems engineering company

• Contractor · 3,277,251,093 USD ('03→'08)

URS Corporation Provider of engineering, construction and technical services for public agencies and private companies

• Contractor · 2,888,458,417 USD ('03→'08)

Ultium GM/LG EV battery JV

• borrower · 2,500,000,000 USD (Dec '22→?)

Fluor Corporation Engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services

• Contractor · 2,331,830,060 USD ('03→'08)

CH2M Hill Companies, LTD. Engineering/Construction

• Contractor · 1,949,608,921 USD ('03→'08)

Raytheon Company Defense contractor; merged with UTC. Surviving company exists as a subsidiary of the renamed UTC, company, Raytheon Technologies

• Contractor · 285,597,880 USD ('04→'07)

NRG Energy, Inc. Commercial Electric Power Plant Developer

• Service/Transaction · 167,000,000 USD ('10→?)

RTX The world's second-largest aerospace-and-defense company

• Contractor · 66,522,576 USD ('04→'08)

Centrus Energy Corp. Supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants

• contractor · 45,000,000 USD

Lobbied By

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Husch Blackwell LLP Missouri law, lobbying firm

• Lobbying (for client) ('06)

Hogan & Hartson LLP

• Lobbying (for client) ('04→'08)

Centrus Energy Corp. Supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants

• Direct Lobbying ('99→'08)

Delta Air Lines, Inc. Atlanta, GA based airline

• Direct Lobbying ('05→'06)

Richard L Spees Attorney, Akerman Senterfitt - McLean, Virginia

• Lobbying (for client) ('99)

Motorola Solutions, Inc. Mission-critical communications products and services to enterprises and governments.

• Direct Lobbying ('99→'07)

Peter Carroll

• Lobbying (for client) ('06)

Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates Since 1981, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates has helped Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and other clients impact public policy as Washington’s top full service government affairs fir

• Lobbying (for client) ('99→'08)

Dynegy Inc. Electric utility company based in Texas

• Direct Lobbying ('03→'04)

Weyerhaeuser Company The biggest owner of timberland in North America

• Direct Lobbying ('01→'08)