Victor Herbert Reis[1] (born February 11, 1935)[2] is a technologist and former U.S. government official, best known as the architect and original sponsor of the U.S. nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program and its associated Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), which resulted in the creation of several new generations of government-sponsored supercomputers.

Born in New York City and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, Reis attended Brooklyn Technical High School and graduated in 1953.

[3][4][5] His doctoral thesis was entitled Free expansion of pure and mixed gases from small sonic nozzles.

Leaving government, he became senior vice president for strategic planning at the Science Applications International Corp., 1983–1989.

Reis served as Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs in the U.S. Department of Energy from 1993 to 1999, where he led the development of the DOE's Stockpile Stewardship Program, which was formally established by the 1994 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 103-160).