October
Lab contractor awards LANL Foundation $3 million
To provide educational enrichment and educational outreach funding for a wide variety of education programs in the seven Northern New Mexico counties. - 10/29/08
Los Alamos imager aboard IBEX space mission
This is the first in a new series of talks that will focus on the emerging scientific field of quantitative biology. - 10/17/08
Where do dogs come from?
This is the first in a new series of talks that will focus on the emerging scientific field of quantitative biology - 10/16/08
Laboratory awards subcontracts to small businesses
A company owned and operated by Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo will soon be providing custodial support services to the Lab. - 10/15/08
Lab grants Decision Sciences Corporation exclusive commercial license for muon tomography
Muon tomography uses naturally occurring cosmic-ray muons to detect and identify concealed nuclear threat materials based on their atomic number and density. - 10/7/08
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Total employees,
10,402
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,929
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 396
Contractors, 349
Students, 889
Post doctoral researchers, 427
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 $9.8 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
—67%
male, 33% female
—44% minorities
—67% university degrees
—26% hold undergraduate degrees
—18% hold master’s degrees
—23% have earned a PhD
Major Awards
124 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
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