practical matter most operational decisions are delegated to the president of LLNS, who is also the laboratory director. The positions of president laboratory director and deputy laboratory director are filled by joint action of the chair and vice chair of the executive committee, with the University of California nominating the president and laboratory director and Bechtel nominating the deputy laboratory director. The current LLNS chairman is Norman J. Pattiz, founder and chairman of Westwood One, America's largest radio network, who also currently serves on the board of regents of the University of California. The vice chairman is J. Scott Ogilvie, president of Bechtel Systems & Infrastructure, Inc., who also serves on the board of directors of Bechtel Group, Inc. (BGI) and on the BGI Audit Committee. Public protests The Livermore Action Group organized many mass protests, from 1981 to 1984, against nuclear weapons which were being produced by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Peace activists Ken Nightingale and Eldred Schneider were involved. On June 22, 1982, more than 1,300 anti-nuclear protesters were arrested in a nonviolent demonstration. More recently, there has been an annual protest against nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore. In August 2003, 1,000 people protested at Livermore Labs against "new-generation nuclear warheads". In the 2007 protest, 64 people were arrested. More than 80 people were arrested in March 2008 while protesting at the gates. On July 27, 2021, the Society of Professionals, Scientists, and Engineers – University of Professional & Technical Employees Local 11, CWA Local 9119, went on a three-day strike over unfair labor practices. See also Center for the Advancement of Science in Space—operates the US National Laboratory on the ISS Dielectric wall accelerator List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California Top 100 US Federal Contractors List of US DOE National Laboratories Footnotes References External links and sources Lawrence Livermore National Security, a Limited Liability Corporation (official website) LLNL Industrial Partnerships and Commercialization (IPAC) (official website) University of California Office of Laboratory Management (official website) Society of Professionals, Scientists and Engineers (Union representing UC Scientists and Engineers at LLNL) University of California LLNL Retiree Group (Legal Defense Fund for UC Retirees from LLNL) Annotated bibliography for Livermore from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Laboratories in California United States Department of Energy national laboratories Federally Funded Research and Development Centers Livermore, California Livermore Valley Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area