Pantex has developed and currently maintains many high-tech capabilities,
technologies, and facilities to support its missions. Its highly skilled
workforce includes many nationally recognized scientists, expert engineers
and technicians. Operations conducted at Pantex include assembly, |
Y-12 National Security Complex Located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Y-12 is a NNSA facility operated by BWXT Y-12, LLC. For more than half a century, Y-12 has been vital to the defense of the free world by supporting the United States nuclear weapons capability and contributing to the nation’s advancing technology. When combined with the research and development abilities of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the expertise in defense-related and manufacturing technologies found at Y-12 forms a valuable resource for the nation’s industrial community. Manufacturing excellence is at the heart of the Y-12 national security complex, with a focus on solving tough manufacturing problems. Expertise includes materials processing, metals casting, and microwave processing and melting. Y-12 offers advanced hardware fabrication, metrology, and manufacturing training, and has developed techniques to analyze remote inventory, as well as sensor technologies to monitor assets. In support of the NNSA mission, Y-12 applies scientific discoveries to real-world manufacturing challenges by developing processes and producing prototypes to meet critical, national security needs. Its unique capabilities and accomplishments were recognized by Congress in 1997 when it designated Y-12 as the National Prototype Center, and in 2006, Y-12 received the White House Close the Circle award for its Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle efforts. Y-12 continually improves its manufacturing abilities with advanced technologies and clearly establishes the science basis for all processes. From revolutionary nuclear technology to end World War II, to the next-generation military prototypes, Y-12 continually applies advanced manufacturing technology to help guarantee America’s security. Visit the website at www.y12.doe.gov |
||||||
Kansas City Plant Located in America's heartland, the Kansas City Plant helps safeguard the nation's security by turning science into reality. For more than half a century, the United States government and its citizens have relied on the facility's wide array of intricate and technically complex products for the country's defense systems. Managed and operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, the Kansas City Plant is unlike any other manufacturing plant. One of the most secure production facilities in the country, the plant is actually three factories - electrical, mechanical, and engineered materials - under a single roof, covering an area the equivalent of 40 acres. The plant specializes in precision, nonnuclear electronic, mechanical, and engineered material products. More than 90 advanced technologies including microelectronics, electronics assembly, telemetry, plastics and polymers, ceramics, machining, optics, laminates, analytical and environmental testing, as well as software engineering, serve to make technologically advanced, high quality, efficient products. The Kansas City Plant supports the U.S. nuclear defense, military, and intelligence communities with more than 40 lines of products, ranging from semiconductors to semitrailers. Over the years, these products have gotten smaller, more complex and more robust, yet they consistently continue to meet exacting standards that ensure public safety and product reliability. The facility's operations in New Mexico also offer a broad range of unique capabilities, some of which complement the Kansas City locations. These include computer programming, numerical analysis, physics modeling, as well as engineering capabilities, such as electrical and mechanical design, development, and fabrication. To ensure that Kansas City Plant products meet the rigorous standards required of weapons work, the facility's advanced manufacturing operations rely on science-based manufacturing, high-performance computing, and state-of-the-art analytical and test processesing. With ISO 9001 and 14001 certification, as well as Six Sigma processes utilized throughout production, everything produced at the Kansas City Plant meets the highest international quality management standards. Integrating the latest technologies and modern facilities with in-depth product and process knowledge, the Kansas City Plant truly is a multi-mission national security asset. Visit the website at www.kcp.com |
||||||
Savannah River Site The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), located in Aiken, South Carolina, is managed and operated by the Westinghouse Savannah River Company, LLC (WSRC). SRNL has served the nation for more than 50 years with unique applied engineering capabilities, a strong base of community support, and a proven track record of safety and accomplishment. SRNL's workforce is managed by WSRC and provides the talents and skills needed to achieve these superb results. The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is the NNSA's applied research and development laboratory. Over the past half-century, SRNL has earned a reputation for successfully identifying, developing, and deploying high-value technologies. SRNL works in partnership with other SRNL divisions, as well as government, academic, and private research organizations, to ensure that the best resources are available to pursue opportunities in technology. With an entire spectrum of expertise in areas such as hydrogen technologies, materials, reliability systems, sensors, and environmental science, SRNL's applied technological solutions deliver high-quality products to the NNSA's customers. SRNL provides research and design support to the NNSA and other customers through tritium and plutonium processing, handling, and storage capabilities, in addition to continuous environmental management activities. They also offer non-proliferation support to other government agencies. SRNL delivers timely technological solutions and innovations in the remote and specialty equipment arena. They provide answers to unique and highly sensitive measurement and detection problems and are spearheading the development of advanced hydrogen storage systems for employment as alternative sources of energy. Visit the website at www.srs.gov |
||||||
Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a research and development laboratory dedicated to ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. Operated by the University of California, Los Alamos is staffed with 14,000 highly skilled employees who work together to reduce the global threat of weapons of mass destruction and to provide technical solutions to national problems in energy, environment, infrastructure, and health security. For sixty years Los Alamos has been a considerable national resource in the development of the advanced science and technology used to solve problems of national and global security. Los Alamos National Laboratory, LLC, a team composed of four top U.S. organizations with extensive experience in nuclear defense programs, is the new management and operating contractor of LANL. Located in the remote Jemez Mountains in Northern New Mexico, Los Alamos occupies 36 square miles of land divided into 47 technical areas with more than 2,000 structures. Los Alamos offers a variety of capabilities and contains facilities for beryllium, plutonium, chemistry, metallurgy, tritium engineering and fabrication, and radiographic hydrodynamic testing. The site also includes a new strategic computing center, a materials science center, a neutron scattering center, a proton accelerator, and a storage ring. Los Alamos scientists and engineers conduct research and develop applications in support of NNSA missions. LANL's expertise includes not only nuclear weapons science and technology and nuclear and advanced materials, but also nonnuclear defense and nonproliferation. In addition, LANL has experience in earth and environmental systems, bioscience, and biotechnology. Having the ability to work in a variety of fields allows LANL to provide solutions for a variety of needs. Visit the website at www.lanl.gov |
||||||
|
||||||
LLNL undertakes projects with high technical risk, such as integrating and extending technologies concurrently. The scientists then push the technologies to the extreme while ensuring quality and precision. As these technologies are advanced, LLNL challenges the boundaries of engineering capabilities at both poles: microscale and ultrascale, in order to provide cutting-edge technology that effectively addresses the security issues threatening our nation today. Visit the website at www.llnl.gov |
||||||
Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and managed by the Sandia Corporation, is one of the nation’s leading technical institutions, which has been fulfilling missions for the NNSA, the DOE, and many other federal agencies for over fifty years. With about 8,500 employees located primarily in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Livermore California, Sandia continues to develop many technologies and systems that are designed to protect Americans and our country’s interests at home and abroad. Sandia researches, designs, and develops 90 percent of approximately 6,000 nuclear weapons components, resulting in an expertise in systems engineering. These components include security systems, arming and fusing mechanisms, safety systems, instrumentation, parachute systems, and aerodynamic design. Sandia has also acquired experience in the design and manufacture of microelectronic devices and semiconductors as a result of developing smaller, lighter, and more reliable command-and-control systems. The capabilities in radiation hardening have made Sandia a valuable resource for protecting sensitive electronic devices in satellites and planetary probes that encounter potentially damaging natural radiation in space. Sandia's unique testing facilities and high-performance computer simulation capabilities allow developers to evaluate product design before making a prototype. Simulations using high-performance computing are vital to ensuring the nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe, secure, and reliable as the weapons age. Visit the website at www.sandia.gov |
||||||
|
||||||
|
|||||||||||||||