BY THE NUMBERS

Tracking Our Effort

FY25 Funding by Source

Funding, Workforce and Assets FY25


Funding Highlights (FY25)

  • NNSA: $2.83B
  • DOE: $432M
  • SPP: $448M

Workforce (FY25)

9,340 LLNS employees, including:

  • 18 joint faculty
  • 307 postdoctoral researchers
  • 553 undergraduate interns
  • 657 graduate students

417 contractors (non-LLNS employees)

Physical Assets (FY25)

  • 7,617 acres (DOE-owned)
  • 502 building/trailers
  • 6.6 million gross square footage (GSF) in operational buildings
  • 52 non-operational buildings/trailers with 0.65 million GSF
  • 48,457 GSF leased
  • Replacement plant value:
    $37.9 billion

SPP: Strategic Partnership ProjectsGSF: Gross Square Footage

Lab Firsts

STOCKPILE BREAKTHROUGH
1958
STOCKPILE
BREAKTHROUGH
Developed thermonuclear warheads small enough to fit on a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
STOCKPILE BREAKTHROUGH
1974
RAPIDLY SORTED
CHROMOSOMES
Flow cytometry to sort chromosomes enabled the Human Genome Project.
STOCKPILE BREAKTHROUGH
1989
STANDARDS FOR
CLIMATE MODELS
LLNL formed a first-of-its-kind center to diagnose and compare global climate models.
STOCKPILE BREAKTHROUGH
1994
MAPPED THE
MOON
A mini-satellite with advanced sensors collected 1.7 million images of the Moon.
STOCKPILE BREAKTHROUGH
2022
IGNITION
MILESTONE
In a historic world first, LLNL demonstrates fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility.
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