Detonator Production Culture

Cultural Drivers

Detonator Production has been essential to Los Alamos National Laboratory since the Lab’s inception during World War II.

MISSION

We provide detonation-related products and services of superior quality and value to protect our nation and promote world stability. By providing these products and services with superior quality and value, our leadership and customers will reward us with recognition, funding, and opportunities to contribute to solutions of importance to national security. These rewards allow us and our communities in which we live in to prosper.

VISION

To be recognized as the best production agency in the National Security Enterprise

Our Values

Excellence

Ensure timely mission execution through operational and business excellence.

Personal Leadership

Ensure timely mission execution through operational and business excellence.

Safety & Security

Build trust through ethical conduct and individual responsibility.

Service

Maintain positive relationships with customers, community, and each other.

Integrity

Build trust through ethical conduct and individual responsibility.

Teamwork

Maintain positive relationships with customers, community, and each other.

Stewardship

Build trust through ethical conduct and individual responsibility.

Our Leadership Team

Daniel Mendoza

DP-DO, Division Leader

Mark Armijo

DP-DO, Deputy Division Leader

Lorenzo Najera

DP-DO, Deputy Division Leader

Dana Mobley

DP-DO, Staff Operations Manager

Oscar Gonzalez

DP-2, Product and Process Engineering, Group Leader

Russell DeBlassie

DP-2, Product and Process Engineering, First Line Manager

Jason Jeffers

DP-3, Manufacturing Operations, Group Leader

Matthew Martinez

DP-3, Manufacturing Operations, Acting Deputy Group Leader

Willie Montoya

DP-2, Product and Process Engineering, First Line Manager

Vanesa Loya

DP-DO Division Office, Professional Staff Assistant

OUR BEHAVIORS

Continuously Improve

We create a safe environment to allow everyone to challenge the status quo, consider new ideas from anywhere, and never become complacent with success.

Problem Solving

We anticipate, identify, acknowledge, and take initiative to understand the root cause and solve problems.

Be Strategic

We proactively seek to understand Detonator Production strategy, establish complementary plans and goals, and seek to understand how individuals and teams can make a difference.

Take Action

We address customer problems, people issues, organizational obstacles, and difficult situations quickly and directly—yet with sensitivity and thoughtfulness.

Prioritize People

We nurture and grow people. We value diversity.

The Past

Scientists and support personnel from around the world began their work at Los Alamos National Laboratory—then dubbed Project Y—in 1943.

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DETONATOR PRODUCTION HISTORY, NEWS, AND FEATURED STORIES

How 9/11 impacted the mission of national security laboratories

It takes a weapons lab to find a weapons lab – whether that lab is in a state-of-the-art facility inside our adversary’s border, or in a shed tucked into a mountainside

NNSA leader visits Lab, praises mission dedication, perseverance during COVID-19

Recently confirmed Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration Jill Hruby lauded the Laboratory’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and praised several significant infrastructure improvements.

What’s shaking?

Understanding underground explosions starts with better geologic models

Neutron-clustering effect in nuclear reactors demonstrated for first time

Long-theorized phenomenon observed in a working reactor could improve reactor safety, according to a new study

Los Alamos National Laboratory's Centrifuge Test Facility adds a key capability

The ability to image internal components during high-stress and -strain a major advancement

Discovery of new material could someday aid in nuclear nonproliferation

Newly discovered quasicrystal was created by the first nuclear explosion at Trinity Site

Remembering a 'true titan' of nuclear industry, Pete Lyons

Peter B. Lyons, who the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) called a "true titan" of nuclear industry, passed away in Golden, CO on Friday, April 29, following a year-long battle with cancer.