Program Secretarial Officer (PSO) (or Deputy Administrator, NNSA)

Headquarters Assistant Secretaries, Deputy Administrators, and Directors who have management responsibility for program planning, budgeting, and execution, of DOE/NNSA mission program activities. For purposes of this Order, the PSO is not necessarily a program officer, but is the senior DOE Headquarters official whose office will fund the requested travel or, if there is no DOE funding, the Federal official having responsibilities associated with the purpose of the requested travel. For Federal employees, this may be the same person as the head of the traveler’s organization.