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Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (LLNL)

LLNL has overall responsibility for implementing, managing and coordinating the NIC Execution Plan and NIC activities including providing procedures, processes and systems for controlling/maintaining NIC's technical, cost and schedule objectives and for managing work at LLNL. Specific responsibilities include operating NIF, providing systems engineering/campaign management activities, maintaining the ignition point design, leading the collaboration on integrated target systems and target diagnostics, providing user optics and the operating inventory and providing the personnel and environmental protections systems.
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General Atomics (GA)

General Atomics, an inertial confinement fusion target fabrication contractor, is a major player in all aspects of the integrated target system for NIC. GA, with others, develops the techniques for the fabrication and characterization of the ignition capsule and the cryogenic ignition hohlraum. Working with LLNL, GA supports target development and fabrication and cryogenic fielding of the NIC targets. Working with other sites, GA supports the manufacture and assembly of targets for supporting experiments on the other facilities.
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The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

LLE, at the University of Rochester, has taken a major role in NIC and is leading the national direct-drive inertial confinement fusion effort, including direct-drive ignition on NIF. LLE leads development of shock timing diagnostics and the shock timing campaign on NIF, performs OMEGA hohlraum energetics campaigns and participates in the development of NIF nuclear diagnostics. LLE also provides OMEGA diagnostic development/calibration shots and leverages its cryogenic experience by developing multi-axis viewing of cryogenic targets in hohlraums and studying layering physics. LLE operates OMEGA and OMEGA EP in support of NIC experiments.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

LANL uses its core capabilities to make major contributions to five principal areas: laser-matter interaction, hohlraum and ablator development, characterization and testing, capsule fabrication research, ignition target design and advanced fusion diagnostics. These areas were chosen because of their synergism with LANL core capabilities and other high energy density science programs and because they have strong prospects for risk mitigation in the NIC program.
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Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)

SNL contributes staff, Z-Machine shots and associated experimental equipment and targets to support four major NIC task areas: developing the design, test and manufacturing plan for the NIC cryogenic target X-ray shield system, participating in mitigating the X-ray generated debris and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) on NIF diagnostics, conducting experiments on the Z Machine to validate computational models of the melting of shocked beryllium and other capsule materials and participating in developing radiographic techniques using short-pulse lasers.
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