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Pipeline Enhancements

Increasing Success – Hiring Today & Tomorrow’s Workforce

Enhancing existing pipelines and building new relationships with key universities, colleges and professional institutions is critical to addressing the staffing needs of today and tomorrow.

Key strategies include:

  • Enhancing current strategic pipelines and partnerships
  • Building new strategic pipelines and partnerships programs
  • Enhancing interactions with New Mexico Higher Education and Regional Universities and Colleges
  • Strategically targeting new universities and colleges to create a decadal relationship

Triad Strategic Partnerships

Texas A&M University System

University of California System

WFPO Current Strategic Partnerships

University of New Mexico

Northern New Mexico College

TAMU

UC San Diego

UC Irvine

University of California

UC Davis

New Mexico State University

NM Tech

UNM-LA

Auburn University

Prairie View A&M

Montana State University

Santa Fe Community College

Plutonium Workforce Development Initiative

The overall goal of the PWDI is to enhance the development of next-generation pit manufacturing technical workforce for the Lab through active-learning based education and collaborative state-of-the-art research in nuclear science and technology that supports pit manufacturing missions.

This program is being administered by the New Mexico Consortium with Lab technical leadership provided from the National Security Education Center (NSEC), WFPO, Community Partnerships Office and technical leaders within the pit manufacturing program at Los Alamos.