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News Releases LANS invests in SFCC's Sustainable Technologies Center
November 30, 2010—Los Alamos National Security, LLC invested $100,000 in Santa Fe Community College's Sustainable Technologies Center. The funds will be used to support the center's operating costs, and salaries of instructors in the program.
This is the second year LANS has made a $100,000 investment in the Sustainable Technologies Center, a 45,000-square-foot facility devoted to workforce training and education in green construction, plumbing, HVAC, electrical trades, and renewable energy fields, including biofuels, smart grid, solar and small wind technology.
Fast Facts
People
11,127 total employees
Los Alamos National Security, LLC 8,683
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force) 419
Contractors 606
Students 1,101
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $5.9 billion
Budget FY 2012: Approx. $2.2 billion
57% Weapons programs
9% Nonproliferation programs
7% Safeguards and Security
8% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
4% Energy and other programs
11% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics (LANS and students only)
34% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe,
Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
70% male, 30% female
43% minorities
63% university degrees
· 23% hold undergraduate degrees
· 16% hold graduate degrees
· 24% have earned a Ph.D.
Major Awards
121 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines