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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
DisrupTECH features superior plastics recycling, smart software, predictive mapping - 11/23/20
Los Alamos scientists find a way to quickly test rust on graphene-protected cars, planes, ships - 10/29/20
Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics - 10/29/20
Los Alamos takes new HPE Apollo 80 System on a test drive - 9/1/20
Should Santa deliver by drone? - 11/26/19
Ground-breaking Los Alamos inventions grab honors - 7/17/19
New open-source software predicts impacts of extreme events on grids - 4/9/19
More stable light comes from intentionally 'squashed' quantum dots - 1/10/19
Eight Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards - 11/19/18
Levitation yields better neutron-lifetime measurement - 5/10/18
Understanding a cell’s ‘doorbell’ - 4/12/18
Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter - 4/2/18
Underground neutrino experiment sets the stage for deep discovery about matter - 3/27/18
Los Alamos releases file index product to software community - 3/22/18
Innovative detectors quickly pinpoint radiation source - 3/21/18
Researchers discover novel exciton interactions in carbon nanotubes - 2/14/18
Tweaking quantum dots powers-up double-pane solar windows - 1/2/18
While earthlings take a break, the Mars rover keeps working - 12/21/17
Computer simulations reveal roots of drug resistance - 12/4/17
Quantum dots amplify light with electrical pumping - 11/20/17
Scalable clusters make HPC R&D easy as Raspberry Pi - 11/13/17
First-ever U.S. experiments at new x-ray facility may lead to better explosive modeling - 11/6/17
Chemical treatment improves quantum dot lasers - 10/16/17
High-impact innovations honored as R&D 100 Award Finalists - 8/29/17
Genomic and fluid-flow technologies win regional tech-transfer awards - 8/10/17
Spotlight shines on ground-breaking technologies - 7/25/17
Six northern New Mexico businesses awarded funds to boost growth - 5/8/17
‘Flying saucer’ colloidal quantum dots produce brighter, better lasers - 3/20/17
Feynman Center for Innovation honors top technical trailblazers - 7/19/16
Community invited to learn about emerging technologies - 7/6/16
Flipping crystals improves solar-cell performance - 7/6/16
Innovative imaging systems on the Wendelstein 7-X bring steady-state fusion energy closer to reality - 1/27/16
Plasma research shows promise for future compact accelerators - 12/21/15
Los Alamos structure-damage software wins R&D 100 Award - 12/6/15
Los Alamos to study future computing technology capabilities - 11/20/15
Los Alamos scientists recognized with breakthrough prize for neutrinos research - 11/12/15
National labs collaborate to shape development of next-generation supercomputers - 11/10/15
Helping New Mexico small businesses earns recognition for Los Alamos National Lab employees - 11/10/15
Curiosity Rover confirms existence of a large ancient lake on Mars - 10/8/15
Los Alamos explores hybrid ultrasmall gold nanocluster for enzymatic fuel cells - 9/24/15
New mechanism discovered for controlling ultracold chemical reactions - 7/31/15
Four Los Alamos projects selected as R&D 100 Award finalists - 7/27/15
Top Los Alamos technology spinoff ideas honored at DisrupTech - 7/23/15
Los Alamos honors computer code team with Feynman Innovation Prize - 7/22/15
‘DisrupTech’ event to highlight bright ideas from Los Alamos - 7/14/15
NASA agreements advance Mars exploration, Los Alamos Rover instrument a key component - 6/17/15
Project ATHENA creates surrogate human organ systems - 6/15/15
DNA analysis conference in Santa Fe - 5/27/15
Mars Rover’s ChemCam Instrument gets sharper vision - 5/21/15
Using biomarkers to identify traumatic brain injury for soldiers, sports figures - 4/28/15
Los Alamos boosts light-water reactor research with advanced modeling and simulation technology - 3/2/15
A different Big Bang theory: Los Alamos unveils explosives detection expertise - 2/11/15
Los Alamos develops new technique for growing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells - 1/29/15
Supporting biosurveillance via the web - 1/28/15
One in five online scholarly articles affected by ‘reference rot’ - 1/26/15
Explosives performance key to stockpile stewardship - 11/3/14
Venture Acceleration Fund wins entrepreneurship award - 10/23/14
Secure computing for the ‘Everyman' - 9/2/14
Show your passion for innovation with a creative talk - 7/22/14
Los Alamos National Laboratory launches new student app - 7/15/14
Probing Fukushima with cosmic rays should speed cleanup - 6/18/14
Santa Fe Business Incubator nets big boost from Los Alamos Lab - 4/15/14
Nuclear Arms Control R&D Consortium includes Los Alamos - 4/7/14
Ten New Mexico small businesses recognized at Innovation Celebration April 3 - 3/26/14
Chevron, GE form Technology Alliance - 2/3/14
Advance in bottle scanning could enhance airport security and benefit passengers - 11/25/13
Nanoscale engineering boosts performance of quantum dot light emitting diodes - 10/25/13
Reliability Technology earns prestigious Los Alamos award - 8/27/13
Los Alamos National Laboratory announces Express Licensing program - 8/1/13
Enabling time travel for the scholarly web - 7/16/13
X-ray imaging, spacecraft nuclear fission and cosmic ray contraband detection score R&D 100 awards - 7/8/13
Los Alamos/Tribogenics create highly portable imaging system - 6/26/13
Los Alamos National Laboratory launches 70th anniversary app for iPhone, iPads - 6/5/13
Domestic production of medical isotope Mo-99 moves a step closer - 5/13/13
New companies get boost from Los Alamos National Security - 11/19/12
New research contract links LANL and robotics firm - 7/11/12
Los Alamos innovations take three R&D 100 Tech Awards: update, now it's FOUR - 6/20/12
Los Alamos National Laboratory Venture Acceleration Fund boosts three businesses - 6/19/12
Facility will focus on bioenergy, global food security - 5/22/12
LANL, Sandia National Lab recognize New Mexico small businesses for innovation - 4/30/12
IX Power LLC and LANL sign Cooperative Research Development Agreement for power, water technologies - 3/14/12
More grapes, less wrath: hybrid antimicrobial protein protects grapevines from pathogen - 2/20/12
Venture Acceleration Fund now accepting 2012 applications - 1/23/12
LANL announces Venture Acceleration Fund recipients - 9/26/11
LANL completes CRADA with Biomagnetics, Inc. - 9/23/11
Awards recognize outstanding innovation in Technology Transfer - 8/8/11
Los Alamos National Laboratory announces selection of venture acceleration fund recipients - 6/15/11
