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Total employees: 11,956
Triad National Security, LLC: 8,327
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 298
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 513
Students: 1,368
Unionized craft workers: 1,050
Post doctoral researchers: 400
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others
Triad and students only
37% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43.5
64% male, 36% female
44% minorities
64% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
18% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow awarded prestigious Fleming Medal
Michelle Thomsen was awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal by the American Geophysical Union - 12/11/19
Announcing winners of first-ever New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge
20 winning high school teams take home $500 per student, members of all 46 participating teams awarded Varsity Letters - 12/9/19
Forty-six high school teams compete for $95,000 in first-ever New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge
December 7 event showcases the ‘ingenuity and passion’ of students in solving real-world problems with science, technology, engineering, and math - 12/5/19
Should Santa deliver by drone?
A new routing algorithm anticipates the day trucks and drones cooperate to drop packages at your doorstep quickly and efficiently - 11/26/19
Chemist Jennifer Hollingsworth named AAAS Fellow
Noted Los Alamos chemist honored by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 11/26/19
Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide
Multiple Earth Systems computer models assessed potential drought levels - 11/25/19
Los Alamos National Laboratory commits to advancing gender equality in nuclear policy
Los Alamos first national lab to join Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy - 11/20/19
Nine Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards
“Oscars of Invention” honor the best innovations of the past year - 11/6/19
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge
‘Dante’ beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version takes aim at 2019-2020. - 10/22/19
Seven Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2019 Laboratory Fellows
Brian Albright, Patrick Chain, Dana Dattelbaum, Michael Hamada, Anna Hayes-Sterbenz, Michael Prime and Laura Smilowitz become part of a prestigious fellowship - 10/16/19
Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers discover a new approach for capturing energy from light-generated, ‘hot’ electrons, avoiding wasteful heat loss - 10/7/19
Ancient oasis once existed on Mars
New findings from the ChemCam instrument show a dynamic Martian climate - 10/7/19
$150K grant to address substance abuse issues in Northern New Mexico
Funding from Los Alamos National Laboratory operator Triad will support United Way of Northern New Mexico’s collective impact initiative - 9/24/19
Los Alamos team sets sail for Arctic on year-long research expedition
As part of MOSAiC field campaign, environmental researchers will operate a suite of instruments 24/7 as ship drifts in ice for the winter - 9/23/19
Nearly $800K grant from Triad to bring new opportunities to students, teachers in Northern New Mexico
Funding from Los Alamos National Laboratory operator will support K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics education - 9/12/19
Harshini Mukundan selected as AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador
Los Alamos bioscientist notes deep commitment to STEM outreach goals - 9/9/19
Discover lightning’s electrifying truth at free public talks
Tess Light of Los Alamos National Laboratory discusses those bright cracks across the sky at Frontiers in Science talks in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Albuquerque - 9/9/19
Breakthrough Prize honors Los Alamos astrophysicists for work on first-ever black hole image
International team wins ‘Oscar of Science’ for using eight radio telescopes from around the world to resolve image of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy - 9/6/19
Job-seekers get immediate offers at Los Alamos National Laboratory hiring event
Laboratory fast-tracks recruiting for high-demand positions as machinists, welding technicians and research technicians - 9/3/19
$500K grant aims to boost small businesses in Northern New Mexico
Funding from Los Alamos National Laboratory operator Triad will support Regional Development Corporation efforts to create jobs, strengthen economic diversity - 8/14/19
Hazmat Challenge tests responders’ skills in simulated emergencies
‘Toughest scenarios yet’ plus an obstacle course help hazmat teams hone their abilities - 8/14/19
Faint foreshocks foretell California quakes
Minor shocks presaged impending main shocks days to weeks before the big event - 7/31/19
Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds
A new algorithm will allow quantum computers to investigate how the classical world we experience emerges from the quantum world - 7/31/19
Numerical model pinpoints source of pre-cursor to seismic signals
Research could one day enable accurately predicting earthquakes - 7/29/19
Vampire algae killer’s genetic diversity poses challenge to biofuels
Multiple species of pathogen could impact commercial algae production - 7/22/19
Machine-learning competition boosts earthquake prediction capabilities
Competitors’ success predicting quake timing in the online Kaggle competition could help save lives, infrastructure - 7/18/19
Los Alamos National Laboratory brings 24,169 jobs, $3.1 billion to New Mexico
Independent UNM report analyzes contributions from employment, goods and services, construction and taxes - 7/18/19
Ground-breaking Los Alamos inventions grab honors
2019 Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prize recognizes nuclear power potential in space - 7/17/19
New Mexico Tech and Los Alamos National Laboratory make joint appointment to work on robotics projects
Engineer becomes first researcher hired under cooperative agreement - 7/16/19
Two Los Alamos scientists win Presidential Early Career Awards
Award honors scientists and engineers for outstanding contributions to their fields - 7/15/19
UNM and Los Alamos National Labs sign new cooperative joint faculty agreement
Five-year joint appointments will increase research opportunities - 7/9/19
Researchers cast neural nets to simulate molecular motion
Machine learning allows quantum mechanics to be efficiently applied to molecular simulations for drug development, detonation physics and more - 7/2/19
All-woman team commands rock-zapping laser on Mars
The team is responsible for sending commands to the ChemCam instrument, which shoots Martian rocks with a laser to determine their chemical make-up - 6/10/19
Quantum information gets a boost from thin-film breakthrough
Method opens new path to all-optical quantum computers, other technologies - 5/29/19
From stars to the Amazon, free lectures explore the story of gold
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Emeritus Terry Wallace traces gold’s cosmic journey in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Los Alamos - 5/15/19
Two New Mexico small businesses win national Department of Energy awards
Holmans USA and RG Construction Services recognized for excellence in their service to Los Alamos - 4/22/19
Scientists create first billion-atom biomolecular simulation
Detailed models provide insight into 3-D structures of genes and the role of 3-D organization in gene function - 4/22/19
Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers
Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and structures in the earth - 4/18/19
Los Alamos waste shipment successfully completed at WIPP
First shipment in five years - 4/12/19
New open-source software predicts impacts of extreme events on grids
Free software helps utilities and government agencies plan for and mitigate potential outages from hurricanes, ice storms, or earthquakes - 4/9/19
New model accurately predicts harmful space weather
Predicting “killer” electrons in the Earth’s outer radiation belt protects spacecraft - 4/9/19
Scientific computing in the cloud gets down to Earth
Servers in the cloud, originally intended for business, broaden access to cluster computing, make new research strategies in geophysics possible - 4/8/19
Two Los Alamos National Lab researchers win Women in Tech awards
Electrical engineer and mathematician recognized as outstanding contributors to STEM fields - 3/28/19
Los Alamos, Northern New Mexico College launch radiation protection course to help fill high-demand jobs
New associate degree program for up to an initial 40 students starts in June, includes internships at Laboratory - 3/19/19
Handling trillions of supercomputer files just got simpler
Exascale file system Delta FS breaks the “metadata bottleneck” by handling extreme numbers of files and amounts of data with unprecedented performance - 3/14/19
New reactor-liner alloy material offers strength, resilience
Tungsten blend resists fractures, could be valuable for magnetic fusion facilities - 3/5/19
Collaboration opportunity to harness top algae strains for bioenergy
DOE project aims to boost productivity, lower cost of algae biofuels and bioproducts - 2/20/19
NNSA approves ‘Critical Decision 1’ for Advanced Sources and Detectors Project, a new tool to advance stockpile stewardship
The project is designed to generate x-ray images of subcritical experiments - 2/14/19
World's finest gold specimen probed with Los Alamos neutrons
Unraveling a 132-year-old gold wire structure mystery - 2/13/19
Los Alamos teams with Oak Ridge, EPB to demonstrate next-generation grid security tech
Quantum science comes to energy grid network protection - 2/12/19
Los Alamos National Laboratory issues Request for Proposal (RFP) for new supercomputer
New “Crossroads” supercomputer will advance Nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program’s capabilities - 1/31/19
Los Alamos scientist Bette Korber to discuss her work developing an HIV vaccine
Series of three public lectures in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Los Alamos - 1/22/19
Los Alamos National Laboratory contributes $3 billion a year to the state’s economy
Economic development initiatives created or retained nearly 1,500 in-state jobs - 1/15/19
‘Realistic’ new model points the way to more efficient and profitable fracking
Accurately predicting fracture mechanics can help industry optimize pumping, fracturing-fluid viscosity, other parameters - 1/11/19
More stable light comes from intentionally 'squashed' quantum dots
Exploiting new ‘strain engineering’ approach produces highly stable, narrow linewidth light from individual quantum dots - 1/10/19
