Sandia National Laboratories - California

Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram engineering and scientific facility operated for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Major Laboratory facilities are located in Albuquerque, N.Mex. and Livermore, Calif. Our 3,500 technical staff members, including 450 at the California site, are recruited from all disciplines of engineering and the physical sciences. Sandia/California is committed to collaborative research and development with industry and universities, resulting in new and enhanced technologies that have both commercial and national security benefits. Sandia/California develops weapons systems and technology that support our nation's nuclear deterrence policy. Some of the nation's greatest challenges are solved by our programs.

The Laboratories' principal missions revolve around national security in the broadest sense of military, energy, and economic competitiveness. Our primary emphasis is on nuclear weapons research and development. In the mid-1970s, we broadened our charter in support of the country's need to develop and expand our energy supply and improve the efficiency of its utilization. In the late 1980s, we again diversified our program, this time training our technical resources - people, technologies, and facilities - on the competitive challenges of the private sector.