BY THE NUMBERS
Tracking Our Effort
FY24 Funding by Source
DOE: Department of Energy NNSA: National Nuclear Security Administration SPP: Strategic Partnership Projects
Funding, Workforce and Assets FY24
Funding Highlights (FY24)
- NNSA: $2.57B
- DOE: $225M
- SPP: $415M
- IC: $44M
Workforce (FY24)
9,563 LLNS employees, including:
- 11 joint faculty
- 311 postdoctoral researchers
- 133 undergraduate interns
- 172 graduate students
473 contractors (non-LLNS employees)
Physical Assets (FY24)
- 7,617 acres (DOE-owned)
- 511 building/trailers
- 6.7 million gross square footage (GSF) in operational buildings
- 52 non-operational buildings/trailers with 0.59 million GSF
- 45,706 GSF leased
- Replacement plant value:
$32.8 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.
LLNL Fact Sheet
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