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People

Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498

Place

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

Budget

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

Demographics

Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.

Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD

Awards

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

Directions

Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020

AAAS and Los Alamos announce 2020 Fellows
Distinguished researchers honored for their contributions - 11/24/20
The Secret City: Project Y mobile app is back
Explore Los Alamos as it was during the Manhattan Project with this app from Los Alamos National Laboratory - 11/12/20
Laboratory and NMSU sign agreement for joint appointments
Staff-and-faculty exchange will build bottom-up collaborations and workforce pipeline - 11/10/20
Fallen trees become firewood for local pueblos
Mitigation project stokes kiva fireplaces and woodstoves in the region - 11/9/20
New mentor-protégé program between Triad National Security and Pueblo Alliance, LLC grooms Native businesses for successful contracting
Pueblo businesses will be mentored in landing contracts with LANL and other U.S. DOE entities. - 10/29/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory named a top employer by Latina Style
Surveyed readers ranked top 50 companies for Latina training, mentorship, retention and promotion - 10/22/20
Six physicists elected 2020 Fellows of the American Physical Society
APS Fellowship recognizes outstanding contributions to science, technology, teaching, or service - 10/14/20
Evelyn Mullen named American Nuclear Society Fellow
Mullen was named a fellow for her leadership in nuclear national security and ensuring the nation’s experimental capability in nuclear criticality - 10/13/20
Seven Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2020 Laboratory Fellows
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Christopher Fontes, Vania Jordanova, Thomas Leitner, John Lestone, Joseph Martz and Ralph Menikoff - 10/12/20
Sarkar honored for theory of self-replicating materials
American Physical Society presents the Irwin Oppenheim award for early-career scientists - 10/7/20
Eight Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards
“Oscars of Invention” honor the best innovations of the past year - 10/5/20
Top students tapped for Los Alamos science experience
Graduate program from DOE prepares students for STEM careers - 10/5/20
Nathan Moody to share in 2021 IEEE particle accelerator award
Moody was cited for “deep and broad contributions to accelerator science and technology, especially multi-disciplinary photocathode science” - 9/24/20
Phil Tubesing awarded 2020 Global Security Medal
Recognizes the exceptional achievements of active or recently retired employees who have made significant contributions to the Laboratory’s global security mission. - 9/21/20
Free remote-learning resources at New Mexico STEAM Hub
Fall semester 2020 just got easier with www.nmsteamhub.com, a collaboration between public and private partners - 9/15/20