FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 10, 2002
FY02-10
Heiser Named Director of ORISE's National Security Operations Program
OAK RIDGE, TENN—William “Bill” Heiser has been named Director of National Security Operations (NSO) at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. He replaces Jim McDonnell who left ORISE to become Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Assurance.
Heiser joined ORISE in 1996 as the Program Director for Interagency Policy and Plans. In 1999, he was named Associate Director for NSO. In this capacity he has managed counter-terrorism training, readiness, and exercise programs to assist federal agencies in responding effectively to foreign and domestic weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorist incidents.
Heiser retired from the Career Civil Service in March 1996. His last assignments in the Department of Defense were Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterproliferation Policy and Director of the Office of Military Assessment and Response, Counterproliferation Policy. He held a number of other policy positions from 1979 through 1996 in the Department of Defense involving nuclear forces and arms control policy and strategic defense policy. Heiser also served as Director of Arms Reduction Policy on the National Security Council staff and Director of International Affairs on the White House National Space Council.
Heiser served in the U.S. Army for ten years, which included assignments to the 5th and 7th Special Forces Groups (Airborne), and Command and Control South, MACVSOG.
He is a cum laude graduate of the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C.