Mohammed (Mo) Badal joined the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (OASA) for Installation, Energy, and Environment (IE&E) in April of 2024 and assumed the duties as the Program Manager for Nuclear Power. Currently, he is the Program Director for Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program for the Army. In his current capacity, he is leading a cross-functional team with members from several DoD organizations, Air Force, Navy, NRC, and DOE (including five national labs).

Mo began his career as an enlisted Soldier at Fort Carson, CO in 1997; he was later honorably discharged as a staff sergeant and began his warrant officer career in December 2005. In his last assignment as Chief Warrant Officer 5, between June 2018 – July 2023, he served as Chief, Contingency Construction and Operational Energy Branch, within the Office of the Chief of Engineers (OCE) in Headquarters Department of the Army Staff (HQDA). During his tenure, he also established the Nuclear Power Branch of the Office of the Chief of Engineers in 2020 and served as an Operational Energy (OE) advisor since 2014.

After retiring in November of 2023, he joined Idaho National Laboratory (INL), as the program manager for defense use of microreactors.