In 1949, President Harry S. Truman wrote a letter to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company president offering the company “an opportunity to render an exceptional service in the national interest” by managing Sandia. AT&T accepted, began managing the Labs on November 1, 1949, and continued in the role for nearly 44 years. The Labs’ original mission — providing engineering design for all nonnuclear components of the nation’s nuclear weapons — continues today. But Sandia also performs a wide variety of research and development for other national security efforts.
Lockheed Martin Corporation has managed Sandia since October 1, 1994, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Most of Sandia’s work is sponsored by DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), but the Labs also works for other federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We work cooperatively with a number of government, U.S. industry, and academic partners to accomplish our missions. Today Sandia employs about 8,700 people and has two primary facilities: a laboratory and headquarters in Albuquerque and a laboratory in Livermore, California.
