BY THE NUMBERS
Tracking Our Effort
Funding, Workforce and Assets FY23
Funding Highlights (FY23)
- NNSA: $2.52B
- DOE: $205M
- SSP: $477M
- IC: $59
Workforce (FY23)
9,291 LLNS employees, including:
- 12 joint faculty
- 321 postdoctoral researchers
- 144 undergraduate interns
- 162 graduate students
480 contractors (non-LLNS employees)
Physical Assets (FY23)
- 7,617 acres (owned)
- 506 building/trailers
- 6.5 million gross square footage (GSF) in active buildings
- Replacement plant value:
$30 billion
SPP: Strategic Partnership ProjectsGSF: Gross Square Footage
Lab Firsts
1958
STOCKPILE
BREAKTHROUGH
BREAKTHROUGH
Developed thermonuclear warheads small enough to fit on a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
1974
RAPIDLY SORTED
CHROMOSOMES
CHROMOSOMES
Flow cytometry to sort chromosomes enabled the Human Genome Project.
1989
STANDARDS FOR
CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATE MODELS
LLNL formed a first-of-its-kind center to diagnose and compare global climate models.
1994
MAPPED THE
MOON
MOON
A mini-satellite with advanced sensors collected 1.7 million images of the Moon.
2022
IGNITION
MILESTONE
MILESTONE
In a historic world first, LLNL demonstrates fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility.
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