Capabilities

Key capabilities necessary to ensure national security

Through LACED, Los Alamos offers the following capabilities:

Explosives Science capabilities include:

• Analytical chemistry
• Micromechanical testing
• Performance testing of explosives from bench scale to demonstration scale
• Polymorphism
• Sensitivity testing
• Spectroscopy
• Surface/interface science
• Synthesis/formulation of explosives

Anticipate-Affect capabilities include:

• Conducting socio-cultural modeling to better understand and identify what influences, characterizes, and enables human networks to carry out asymmetric acts
• Data mining and analytics to collect and evaluate social and cultural behavior
• Executing persistent surveillance
• Training in improvised explosive threats

Detect capabilities include:

• Advanced image analysis
• Exquisite surveillance technologies
• Fundamental improvements to existing technologies
• IED location-independent detection
• Remote selective trace detection of explosive vapors/residues
• Standoff detection of physical and chemical signatures from manufacturing and concealed deployment
• Standoff high-selectivity spectroscopy of explosive vapors, residues, or bulk
• Standoff stimulation of signatures released from explosive bulks, with signature analysis

Neutralize & Mitigate capabilities include:

• Airframe modeling
• Blast event shaping
• Detonation physics and chemistry
• Disruptive technologies
• Electromagnetic Energy (EME) coupling
• High-performance, multifunctional materials
• Shielding paradigms designed to protect personal
• Threat scenario modeling