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
  • 6.6M gross square footage (GSF) in operational buildings
  • 52 non-operational buildings/ trailers with 0.65M GSF
  • 48,457 GSF leased
  • Replacement plant value: $37.9B

SPP: Strategic Partnership ProjectsGSF: Gross Square Footage

Lab Firsts

Stockpile breakthrough
1958
STOCKPILE BREAKTHROUGH

Developed compact thermonuclear warheads for submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Rapidly sorted chromosomes
1974
RAPIDLY SORTED CHROMOSOMES

Flow cytometry for sorting chromosomes helped enable the Human Genome Project.

Standards for climate models
1989
STANDARDS FOR CLIMATE MODELS

LLNL created a pioneering center to diagnose and compare global climate models.

Mapped the Moon
1994
MAPPED THE MOON

Advanced sensors on a mini-satellite collected 1.7 million images of the Moon.

Ignition milestone
2022
IGNITION MILESTONE

LLNL achieved the world's first fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility.

Lab at a Glance fact sheet.

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Livermore has pushed the boundaries of science and engineering for decades. Get an at-a-glance view of the Laboratory including our core capabilities, world-class facilities and how we're funded.

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