Year in Review 2007-2008: Goal 7: National security science lab
Los Alamos maintains a science capability that supports present and emerging missions and that anticipates and delivers innovations to protect the nation. Multidisciplinary teams tackle extraordinarily complex problems, including ensuring the safety and reliability of the nuclear deterrent, understanding the energy-climate nexus, and protecting against weapons of mass destruction. The Lab conducts science that matters to the nation.
- National Security Education Center created from merger of Lab institutes
- Conversion process to turn CO2 into fuels could combat global climate change
- Sequestering CO2 in under-ground rock subject of Lab assessment
- Strategies for containment of avian influenza pandemic modeled
- Roadrunner supercomputer is fastest in world, breaks one-petaflop barrier
- Geology sheds light on proliferation of life in Africa amid environmental threats
- Long-distance triggering of earthquakes by seismic sound waves confirmed
- First ultra-low-field magnetic resonance images of the human head acquired
- Industry and academia collaborative agreements exceed $80 million
- MaRIE Signature Science Facility will offer science solutions for investigating materials in radiation extremes
- Partnership with Procter & Gamble surpasses $30 million
Be the premier national security science laboratory and realize our vision for a capabilities-based organization
We will realize a capabilities-based approach to science for the needs of U.S. national security, understanding national security science needs, and supporting capabilities-based science by providing intellectual, financial and functional resources.