Bryan Christiansen - SME - Vulnerability Analysis, Design Basis Threat, Nuclear Material Transport & Interagency Coordination.
Bryan is a safeguards and security professional with extensive experience supporting national security missions across the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the U.S. defense community. A military veteran, he brings more than a decade of experience in force protection, nuclear security operations, intelligence analysis, and vulnerability assessment supporting high-consequence national security assets.
Bryan last served as a Security Specialist within the Safeguards and Security Vulnerability Analysis Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In this role, he led and contributed to the development of Vulnerability Assessment Reports (VARs), Security Risk Assessments (SRAs), and other safeguards and security deliverables supporting, high profile campaigns, site security programs and DOE Order compliance. His work focuses on evaluating physical protection systems, operations, analyzing adversary threat scenarios, and developing defensible security architectures designed to protect special nuclear material and other critical assets.
Prior to his work at Los Alamos, Bryan served as a Federal Agent with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Secure Transportation, conducting armed security missions responsible for the safe transport of nuclear weapons, components, and strategic quantities of special nuclear material.
Earlier in his career, he served in the United States Air Force as an intelligence analyst specializing in signals intelligence (SIGINT), fusion analysis, and open-source intelligence. In addition to analytical duties, he served as a mission manager supporting real-time operations, providing threat warning, operational analysis, and force protection guidance to operational leadership during active missions.
Why I Joined Praxnor Group
I chose to pursue this venture to apply all of my professional experience to emerging challenges; in this case, the emerging challenges within the nuclear and national security space. Throughout my career supporting high-consequence missions across the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, and the defense community, I recognized a growing need for practical, experience-driven security solutions in addition to the personnel driving them forward as advanced technologies and next-generation energy systems are developed and deployed.
As global demand for reliable, high-output energy continues to increase; all of which are driven by technological advancement, data infrastructure, and evolving national priorities; nuclear energy is positioned to play an increasingly important role within a diversified energy portfolio. With that role comes the corresponding responsibility to ensure these systems are designed, protected, and maintained to the highest standards of security and compliance.
There is a commitment that needs fulfilling; that commitment is to assist organizations develop safeguards and security programs that are not only compliant with regulatory requirements, but also resilient against real-world threats. It is an opportunity to contribute to the long-term reliability and security of critical energy infrastructure at a time when it matters most.
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