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2021
NEWSLINE YEAR IN REVIEW
L AWRE NC E L IV E RM O RE N AT ION A L L A BORAT ORY
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AN EXCEPTIONAL YEAR FOR LAB, DESPITE PANDEMIC
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hile the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic completion of a key milestone in a multi-lab effort to the Federal Laboratory Consortium. In addition, Lab
continued to be felt, 2021 marked an exceptional develop Scorpius, a next-generation particle accelerator for employees from 10 project teams earned Department of
year for the Laboratory in science, technology X-ray imaging. Energy Secretary Achievement Awards.
and operations.
LLNL took part in NASA’s first-ever planetary defense test, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm virtually
A historic experiment at the National Ignition Facility put which will deliberately collide a spacecraft into an asteroid visited LLNL, where she met with leading scientists and
researchers on the threshold of fusion ignition, producing called Dimorphos. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test engineers, toured lab facilities and learned about key
a yield more than 8 times greater than before and opening (DART) will examine technologies that will prevent an research efforts.
access to an entirely new experimental regime. impact of Earth by a hazardous asteroid. To assist in the
exploration of space from Earth, LLNL engineers delivered LLNL was honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice
The W80-4 Life Extension and W87-1 Modification final optical components for world’s newest telescope, the Award for the third consecutive year, recognizing the
programs continued to make important progress, and Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Best Places to Work in 2021 and by the American
LLNL, in partnership with Kansas City National Security Indian Science and Engineering Society Winds
Campus, brought online a new polymer production Combining hybrid polymer materials with microfabrication of Change magazine as one of the Top 50 STEM
enclave to enable rapid development of design and and 3D printing, the Lab developed an ultra-compact, Workplaces in 2021.
production processes of polymer parts for modernization lightweight and minimally invasive optoelectronic neural
programs. implant that could be used for long-term studies of brain Lab employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National
activity. Security, LLC, donated more than $3.6 million to
The Lab delivered eight prototype pulsed-power modules charitable organizations via the annual employee giving
for testing to Los Alamos National Laboratory, marking LLNL joined the international Human Vaccines Project, program, the Helping Others More Effectively (HOME)
bringing Lab expertise and computing resources to the Campaign. Donations will benefit more than 1,500
consortium to aid development of a universal coronavirus community and nonprofit agencies in the Tri-Valley,
INSIDE YEAR IN REVIEW vaccine and improve understanding of immune response. Greater Bay Area, San Joaquin County and beyond, a
much-needed boost to organizations that have felt the
2 INTRODUCTION Leaders from the National Nuclear Security effects of the global pandemic.
Administration, Congressional representatives and
3 JANUARY 18 JULY local elected officials gathered at LLNL to celebrate Workplace transition also was a hallmark of 2021, as
an expansion to the Livermore Valley Open Campus. the Laboratory began its “Return to New Normal.” A
5 FEBRUARY 19 AUGUST Significant progress was made on additional infrastructure key part of this transition was the move to LLNL’s new
7 MARCH 20 SEPTEMBER
projects, including the ECFM project to support the
delivery of El Capitan, the first exascale computer for
hybrid workplace, affording flexibility to employees
while continuing to deliver on important mission
10 APRIL 22 OCTOBER national security applications, and the new Emergency commitments.
Operations Center.
13 MAY 24 NOVEMBER This is just a very small sampling of the Lab’s
LLNL scientists and engineers were awarded three R&D accomplishments in 2021. For a more comprehensive
15 JUNE 27 DECEMBER 100 awards, often dubbed the “Oscars of invention” look back at the year, please see the month-by-month
and three national technology transfer awards from review of 2021.
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JANUARY ConserV Bioscience Limited (CBL) and LLNL collaborate
YEAR
on the development of a broad-spectrum or “universal”
coronavirus vaccine. This collaboration brings together
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CBL’s expertise in identifying antigens and LLNL’s
nanolipoprotein delivery system.
in New research by scientists from Nanjing University, Read more
REVIEW
LLNL and Texas A&M University concludes the
planet is committed to global warming in excess of 2 Scientists from Lawrence Livermore, the Scripps Institution
degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) just from of Oceanography and international collaborators show that
greenhouse gases that have already been added to an improved representation of drizzle rates leads to more
the atmosphere. pollution in the atmosphere.
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A MONTH-BY-MONTH RECAP
LLNL researchers develop an ultra-compact, By placing a shock-compressed sample of zirconium
lightweight and minimally invasive optoelectronic under ultrafast time-resolved X-rays, LLNL scientists
neural implant that could be used for long-term and collaborators see an intermediate phase along the
studies of brain activity. The new implantable devices transition between two solid phases. Theory has predicted
are built upon a new platform LLNL researchers are the existence of an intermediate step in this phase
calling POEMS (Polymeric Opto-Electro-Mechanical transition, but it has not been observed until now.
Systems). Read more
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NASA selects LLNL and Goddard Space Flight Center to
LLNL researchers develop an X-ray source that can serve as lead institutions for the Pandora scientific mission
diagnose temperatures in experiments that probe that will study 20 stars and their 39 exoplanets.
conditions like those at the very center of planets. The Read more
new source will be used to perform extended X-ray
absorption fine-structure experiments at the National Lawrence Livermore scientists conduct the first-ever shot
Ignition Facility. to study a high explosive sample at the National Ignition
Read more Facility, the world’s most energetic laser. The results from
LLNL researchers Nick Fischer and Amy Rasley the shot include novel data that will help LLNL researchers
characterize nanolipoprotein particle vaccine Lawrence Livermore scientists discover that carbon unlock the mysteries of high-explosive chemistry.
formulations using a dynamic light-scattering nanotube membrane pores could enable ultra- Read more
instrument. Detailed characterization of the rapid dialysis processes that would greatly reduce
nanoparticles provides an important quality-control treatment time for hemodialysis patients. Under the Discovery Science program, which allows
metric for vaccine development. Read more academic scientists access to LLNL’s flagship National
Ignition Facility, an international team of researchers led by
Lawrence Livermore scientists reconstruct the original the Lab and the University of Oxford successfully measure
solar system formation locations by studying the isotopic carbon at pressures reaching 2,000 GPa (five times the
compositions of different groups of meteorites that all pressure in Earth’s core).
derived from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Read more
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LLNL employees, participating in 10 project teams, With a focus on increasing joint research efforts between
receive the Department of Energy’s Secretary LLNL and universities, the Lab’s Weapon Physics and
Achievement Awards. Design Academic Collaboration Team (ACT) University
Read more Program presents the year’s ACT-UP awards.
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Charlene Zettel, chair of Lawrence Livermore National
Security, LLC, which manages the Laboratory for the For the third consecutive year, LLNL is honored with a
Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the
Administration, announces the selection of Kim Budil Best Places to Work in 2021.
as LLNL’s new director. Budil is the 13th leader of the Read more
Laboratory since it was established in 1952 and its first
woman director. In a continuing effort to explore ways to better track
Read more COVID-19 and strengthen the Lab’s ability to ensure a
safe workplace, LLNL scientists conduct a multi-phase
Pat Falcone, LLNL’s deputy director for Science and environmental sampling research study. The research is
Technology, is a featured panelist in “Paving the Way: A designed to inform discussions about the possible future
Virtual Conversation,” a special livestream event sponsored utility of environmental sampling as an added tool.
by the Quest Science Center. Read more
Kim Budil is named director of Lawrence Livermore Read more
National Laboratory. Budil began her new role on The state of California approves LLNL’s Health Services
March 2. The 2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Department to serve as a provider of the COVID-19
Computer Vision announces that a paper co-authored vaccine. The Laboratory develops a vaccine dispensing
by LLNL computer scientist Rushil Anirudh received the plan to ensure its approach is consistent with California
conference’s Best Paper Honorable Mention award based and Alameda County guidance on prioritization.
“Kim Budil’s passion and commitment on its potential impact to the field. Read more
to the Lab’s mission and people and Read more
Due to the overwhelming success of the Brighter
her ability to strategically manage the As an experimentalist at LLNL developing diagnostics Holidays program, the Livermore Laboratory Employee
breadth of Livermore’s science and and experimental techniques in the field of dynamic high- Services Association continues the giving and volunteer
pressure physics, Peter Celliers leads a national topical opportunities all throughout the year through the
technology capabilities and operations
group of the American Physical Society (APS). Celliers Brighter Days campaign.
will serve the Lab, its people and the is elected to the executive committee as vice-chair Read more
nation well.” of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of
Condensed Matter.
– Charlene Zettel, chair of LLNS, on the selection of Kim
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Budil as the new Lab director
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FEBRUARY mantle — at the extreme pressures and temperatures that
are likely found in the interiors of these large
rocky planets.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Read more
LLNL’s Center for Global Security Research publishes Kirsten Howley doesn’t have an orange jumpsuit at hand,
the fourth book in its Strategic Latency series: “Strategic but her job is serious business. She and her team of
Latency Unleashed: The Role of Technology in a planetary defenders specialize in how we might deflect an
Revisionist Global Order and the Implications for Special asteroid like Bennu that poses a threat to Earth.
Operations Forces.” The recent volume examines the Read more
implications of emerging technologies from the perspective
of America’s special operations forces. In the wake of the massive Aug. 4, 2020 explosion that
Read more rocked Lebanon’s capital of Beirut, new research by
LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory sheds light on
LLNL scientists develop a new method for 3D printing living its unusual ignition process and scientists’ understanding
An artistic rendering of the interior structure of Earth microbes in controlled patterns, expanding the potential of explosives to make them safer for handling, storage
(left) compared to a large rocky exoplanet (right). Image for using engineered bacteria to recover rare-earth metals, and transportation.
by John Jett and Federica Coppari/LLNL. clean wastewater, detect uranium and more. Read more
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Lab personnel subject notional bomb components handled
Researchers from LLNL take important steps to show by LLNL volunteers to contained-precision explosions
“It is mind-boggling to think that our that thermal conduction is important and measurable at to determine whether makers of a terrorist bomb can be
high pressure and temperature conditions during shock identified by skin proteins left on bomb components.
laboratory experiments can peer into compression experiments. Read more
the interior structure of planets so far Read more
away with unprecedented resolution and One year after publishing the groundbreaking “Getting to
In an effort to better understand how materials deform Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California,”
contribute to a deeper understanding of under extreme conditions, researchers at LLNL develop a LLNL becomes a trusted adviser in the discussion of how
the universe.” new experimental method for probing large-strain and high- to remove carbon dioxide from the air. In the report, LLNL
rate material strength. scientists identify a robust suite of technologies to help
Read more California clear the last hurdle and become carbon neutral —
– Federica Coppari, LLNL physicist
and ultimately carbon negative — by 2045.
Lawrence Livermore computer scientists develop a new Read more
deep-learning approach to design emulators for scientific
processes that is more accurate and efficient than LLNL researchers Babak Sadigh, Luis Zepeda-Ruiz and
existing methods. Jon Belof report on a new mechanism of solidification in
Read more copper that provides an atomistic view of Nobel prize-
winning physical chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald’s step
Led by LLNL, a team of researchers aims to unlock some rule and alters the fundamental understanding of nucleation
of the secrets of extrasolar planets by understanding the at high pressure.
properties of iron oxide — one of the constituents of Earth’s Read more
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LLNL scientists leverage their extensive experience of the understanding of shock-driven reactions and
studying the movement of airborne hazards to better detonation in condensed phase explosives.”
understand the movement of virus-like particles through Read more
the air and to identify effective countermeasures.
Read more Nearly a year into piloting a major scientific institution
through one of the most taxing and disruptive global events
In new experiments, a Lawrence Livermore scientist and in modern history, outgoing Lab Director Bill Goldstein
international collaborators find that outflow/magnetic field is ready for a vacation. As the 12th director in the Lab’s
misalignment is a plausible key process regulating jet history, Goldstein faced myriad challenges in his almost
formation in astronomical phenomena. seven years at the helm. But nothing could’ve prepared him
Read more for COVID-19.
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Researchers from LLNL conduct work to gain a better
understanding about why even percent-level deviations
from perfect spherical symmetry can lead to significant
OPERATIONS
distortions of the implosion and ultimately degrade fusion
LLNL’s popular lecture series, “Science on Saturday,” goes
performance.
virtual in 2021 with the theme “Combating COVID-19.”
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Each Saturday features a different lecture presented by
leading LLNL researchers joined by a master high school
PEOPLE science teacher.
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Director Bill Goldstein announces the selection of Anup
Singh as the new LLNL associate director for Engineering. LLNL researchers launch a new Space Science
LLNL physicist Matthias Frank measures the movement
Read more Institute (SSI), intended to boost cross-discipline
of DNATrax surrogate particles in a test chamber.
collaboration and discovery. SSI will build on
LLNL’s Charles and Debbie Ball receive the Office of the Livermore strengths in astrophysics, earth science,
Secretary of Defense (OSD) Medal for Exceptional Public nuclear science and engineering.
“By understanding the airborne disease Service while on assignment with OSD. Read more
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transmission, we hope to offer science-based In honor of Black History Month, six members of the African
information that people can use to protect LLNL’s Nils Carlson receives the Office of the Director of American Body of Laboratory Employees resource group
themselves and others.” National Intelligence (ODNI) award for exceptional service channel their inner actor and bring characters to life in a
while on assignment with ODNI. special virtual live Readers Theatre reading of the graphic
Read more novel trilogy “March” by the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
– Atmospheric scientist Michael Dillon, who works with
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LLNL physicist Matthias Frank
Craig Tarver, a LLNL retiree and consultant to the
Lab’s Energetic Materials Center, is honored with the A University of California Office of the President grant
American Physical Society’s 2021 George Duvall Shock program brings six graduate students to Livermore this
Compression Science Award for “theoretical advancement year. The UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate
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Fellowships fund the Ph.D. candidates to work with carbon-capture regulatory framework and offers options
mentors at the Lab. for government and project developers to enable robust,
Read more transparent and efficient project permitting in line with the
state’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2045 or earlier.
Pre-hire employees and LLNL administrators alike offer Read more
rave reviews for the new Employee Onboarding Center that
was piloted by select organizations last fall. Using targets with micro-structures on the laser interface,
Read more an LLNL team shoots a high-intensity laser through
them and sees a 100 percent increase in the amount of
The Foreign Travel Office, in partnership with Livermore laboratory-created antimatter (also known as positrons).
Information Technology, launches a new version of the Read more
Foreign Travel System.
Read more A joint test assembly (JTA) designed by Lawrence
A Lab report outlines updates to state’s regulations for Livermore and Sandia national laboratories is onboard an
carbon capture, storage in effort to achieve neutrality. unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile,
MARCH and successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California.
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“California could obtain faster and larger SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
carbon emission reduction removal while LLNL researchers show how applying pressure to a specific
A new Lab report outlines updates to the state’s thermoelectric material, TiNiSn, increases its efficiency and
maintaining the robustness and rigor of its regulations for carbon capture and storage in the effort leads to a structural phase transition. The research shows
environmental review and permitting regime to achieve neutrality. To reach economy-wide carbon that pressure and temperature may enhance the properties
neutrality by 2045 or earlier, California will likely have to and efficiency of thermoelectric materials for better
through some simple interventions to existing
capture, transport and geologically store tens of millions potential use in applications such as waste heat recovery,
processes and structures.” of tons of carbon dioxide per year from large sources and radio-isotope thermoelectric generators (as used by NASA
the atmosphere. on space missions) and cooling in computer circuitry.
– LLNL researcher George Peridas Read more Read more
Computer scientists at LLNL and IBM Research develop An influential Department of Energy advisory
a “self-training” deep-learning approach that addresses committee recommends that the nation move
common challenges in the adoption of artificial intelligence aggressively toward the deployment of fusion energy,
for disease diagnosis. The team wins a Best Paper award including investments in technology and equipment to
for Computer-Aided Diagnosis for the work at the recent support one of the core missions of LLNL’s National
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference. Ignition Facility and lay the groundwork for the
Read more development of inertial fusion energy.
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George Peridas, LLNL director of carbon management
partnerships, and Lab staff scientist Briana Schmidt discuss Lab scientists, California policymakers and industry
results from a new report titled “Permitting Carbon Capture leaders come together to discuss the reality of getting
and Storage in California,” which examines the state’s to carbon neutral during a forum titled “Carbon Capture
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and Sequestration in California: Regional Insights and focus areas, including helping to advance additive
Community Attitudes.” manufacturing and enabling improvements in performance
Read more of hohlraums.
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An international group of researchers, including a
scientist from LLNL, analyze sediments at the base For the first time, Lab researchers isolate, in a controlled
of the Camp Century ice core (1.4 kilometers deep) laboratory setting, the effects of the plasma geometry in its
collected in 1966 and determine that Greenland wasn’t X-ray emission spectrum — the energy distribution of the
always covered in ice. radiation the plasmas emit.
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Research conducted on LLNL’s supercomputer Quartz, In an effort to improve cloud representations in climate
Elevated carbon dioxide (eCO2) has opposing effects through a collaboration between LLNL and Purdue models, researchers from Lawrence Livermore and
on plant biomass and soil carbon, and these effects University reveals a missing aspect of the physics of Argonne national laboratories compare them to
contrast between forests and grasslands. Image by Victor hotspots in TATB and other explosives. observations from the Department of Energy Atmospheric
O. Leshyk/Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Read more Radiation Measurement program. The team combines
Northern Arizona University. measurements from three different instruments to
LLNL computer scientists develop a new framework and measure properties of water vapor and drizzle in and
an accompanying visualization tool that leverages deep below the clouds.
reinforcement learning for symbolic regression problems, Read more
outperforming baseline methods on benchmark problems.
“The variations in soil carbon accrual Read more Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, HPCAT, a Chicago-based
under elevated atmospheric CO2 remain research consortium to advance high-pressure science in
poorly understood and this contributes to New Lab research shows that naturally occurring climate multidisciplinary fields using synchrotron radiation, takes
variations help to explain a long-standing difference experiments remotely to accommodate as many as 750
uncertainties in climate projections.” between climate models and satellite observations of experimentalists — including numerous LLNL teams.
global warming. Read more
– César Terrer, LLNL Lawrence Fellow Read more
LLNL’s Center for Global Security Research (CGSR)
An international team led by LLNL scientists synthesizes releases “Negotiating with Putin’s Russia: Lessons
108 elevated carbon dioxide experiments in various Learned from a Lost Decade of Bilateral Arms Control,”
ecosystems to find out how much carbon is absorbed by a new CGSR paper on global security that sheds light on
plants and soil. understanding U.S.–Russia arms control negotiations from
Read more an American perspective.
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LLNL scientists publish the results of a three-week
experimental campaign at the Lab’s Jupiter Laser Facility to LLNL machine learning group researcher Jose Cadena is
test the performance of laser-heated additive manufactured one of several LLNL computer scientists to present work
foams. The project helps support two major Laboratory applying machine learning to electronic health records
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at the first session of a multi-institutional Data Science National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator’s
Institute AI in Healthcare workshop. Distinguished Service Gold Award.
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LLNL’s Center for Global Security Research (CGSR)
PEOPLE releases “Europe’s Evolving Deterrence Discourse,” a new
CGSR occasional paper that explores the evolving nuclear
Outgoing LLNL Director Bill Goldstein receives honors deterrence dialogue in Europe and identifies ways to inject
from the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear new momentum into that dialogue.
Security Administration in recognition of his significant Read more
accomplishments as a scientist, leader in national security
and director of LLNL. Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm extends her
Read more appreciation in honor of Employee Appreciation Day, to
the DOE workforce for choosing public service, protecting
Col. Joe Tringe, a group leader at LLNL and an Air Force the nation, advancing science and making America’s clean
Scientists in the National Atmospheric Release Advisory reservist, serves as the final decision authority during the energy future possible, day in and day out.
Center (NARAC) provide atmospheric dispersion recent successful unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental Read more
analyses during the Fukushima emergency. Pictured are ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
three of the many current and former NARAC scientists, Read more The Security Organization’s Eagle Eye Award is
left to right: Fernando Aluzzi, Matthew Simpson and presented to Cindy Green and Brianna Centeno of the
Kristen Yu. Jeene Villanueva, a computer scientist and group leader at Materials Engineering Division and Debbie Leal of the
LLNL, represents the Laboratory at the 2021 Lab Manager Engineering Directorate for their attention to detail and
Diversity Digital Summit, “Building Better Labs: Diversity, security awareness.
Equity and Inclusion.” Villanueva, one of four expert Read more
“The Livermore response was a significant speakers, is featured during the two-day virtual event
and offers guidance on topics to help the lab manager
Labwide effort, with a total of 78 employees community better understand the challenges, obstacles OPERATIONS
contributing, including atmospheric scientists, and successes of diverse lab scientists.
Read more LLNL and the Monterey-based Naval Postgraduate
health physicists, chemists, physicists, School (NPS) sign a five-year memo of understanding that
radiation detection specialists, engineers, Coinciding with International Women’s Day, Lawrence provides a framework for NPS faculty and student research
computer scientists, technicians and Livermore National Laboratory’s 4th Women in Data collaboration with LLNL and reciprocal involvement of
Science regional event brings women together to discuss LLNL staff in NPS research and academic activities.
administrative staff.” successes, opportunities and challenges of being female in Read more
– Lee Glascoe, program leader for Livermore’s
a mostly male field.
Read more The Lab observes the 10-year anniversary of Fukushima,
Nuclear Emergency Support Team
when a 9.0 Richter-scale earthquake and tsunami in
Mona Dreicer, who served as the deputy director of Japan resulted in severe damage to the Fukushima
LLNL’s Center for Global Security Research for six years Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and also led to releases of
until her retirement in 2020, is named a recipient of the radioactivity into the environment.
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New Lab Director Kim Budil delivers her first message to fiscal year 2020, available online. The report features some
employees: “Time to lace up our track shoes.” of LLNL’s most innovative research, including several
Read more LDRD-funded projects that focus on developing medical
countermeasures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
The Department of Energy directs a COVID-19 “safety Read more
pause” at all its facilities, including those within the NNSA
complex. Lab Director Kim Budil kicks off the pause with a Gov. Newsom signs SB 95 into law, providing up to 80
message. hours of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave to
Read more employees working in California.
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LLNL receives approval from NNSA to provide paid
administrative leave to employees for the time they take Section 3610 of the CARES Act authorizes agencies to
A standoff detonation of a nuclear device irradiates an
to receive a vaccination for COVID-19. While vaccinations fund paid leave for employees who are unable to work
are voluntary, employees are encouraged to be vaccinated due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is the mechanism
asteroid and deposits energy at and beneath the surface.
at the earliest opportunity and to do so in accordance with by which the Laboratory has been approved to make
In this work, two neutron yields (50 kt and 1 Mt) and two
local and state guidelines. Authorized Leave available to employees during the
neutron energies (14.1 MeV and 1 MeV) were the primary
Read more COVID-19 pandemic.
case studies compared side-by-side. The black dots
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represent the location of the standoff nuclear device. In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Lawrence
The colors in the asteroids show the intensities and Livermore Laboratory Women’s Association invites all
distributions of differing neutron energy depositions. employees to participate in Women’s Wednesdays, special
The dark blue color indicates where the asteroid remains
solid. All other colors are where material is melted and/or
noon time presentations on each Wednesday throughout
the Month of March.
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vaporized, which allows for blow-off debris to be ejected, Read more
changing the asteroid’s velocity and deflecting it. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Cynthia Rivera, principal associate director of Operations
and Business, discusses a safe and secure environment A research collaboration between LLNL and the Air Force
to enable the Laboratory’s work as part of the senior Institute of Technology investigates how the neutron energy
management team’s recent series of commitments that output from a nuclear device detonation can affect the
“It is important that we further research and complement the Lab’s values. deflection of an asteroid.
understand all asteroid mitigation technologies Read more Read more
in order to maximize the tools in our toolkit.” The Laboratory receives a shipment of approximately Scientists at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley
2,000 first doses of the Pfizer vaccine. On-site national laboratories — in collaboration with the University
– Lansing Horan IV, Lab scientist vaccinations begin. of Michigan — uncover a surprising, self-improving
Read more property in silicon and gallium nitride that contributes to
the material’s highly efficient and stable performance in
LLNL’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development converting light and water into carbon-free hydrogen.
(LDRD) Program publishes its annual program report for Read more
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BLUE LINKS ARE ACCESSIBLE ON BOTH THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAB NETWORK.Researchers develop a compression scaling model
LLNL releases flowcharts that illustrate the nation’s
that is benchmarked to 1D implosion simulations
consumption and use of energy. Americans used
spanning a variety of relevant implosion designs.
92.9 quads (quadrillion BTU) of energy in 2020,
This model is used to compare compressibility trends
which is approximately 7 percent less energy, due in
across all existing indirect-drive layered implosion
part to the COVID-19 pandemic.
data for three ablators.
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A team of scientists from LLNL describe a high-
The Data Science Institute’s first-ever virtual event
precision interferometer system, newly developed to
concludes with the third and final workshop on
measure the pressure dependence of the refractive
artificial intelligence in health care, featuring work by
index and its dispersion in diamond anvil cells.
Lawrence Livermore and others in applying machine
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learning to COVID-19 research.
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Under a new memorandum of understanding, researchers A team of scientists conduct an analysis of directly
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), IBM driven gold sphere experiments to test heat transport
and Red Hat aim to enable next-generation workloads by models used in inertial confinement fusion and high PEOPLE
energy density modeling.
integrating LLNL’s Flux scheduling framework with Red
Read more Researchers from LLNL and their colleagues who
Hat OpenShift. Pictured, from left, are LLNL postdoctoral
help them commercialize technologies win three
researcher Dan Milroy and computer scientists Stephen
Scientists from LLNL and the Laboratory for Laser national technology transfer awards from the Federal
Herbein and Dong H. Ahn.
Energetics work to improve polar direct drive neutron Laboratory Consortium, the most national awards that
sources on NIF, the world’s most energetic laser. LLNL has ever won in a single year’s competition over
Read more the past 36 years.
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A team of interdisciplinary researchers, led by LLNL
“Cloud systems are increasingly setting and the Colorado School of Mines, demonstrates the The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
the directions of the broader computing power of using nuclear decay in high-rate quantum (SIAM) selects LLNL computational mathematician Rob
sensors in the search for sterile neutrinos. The Falgout as an esteemed member of its 2021 Class of
ecosystem, and economics are a findings are the first measurements of their kind. SIAM Fellows.
primary driver.” Read more Read more
– Bronis de Supinski, chief technology officer Under a new memorandum of understanding, Bronis R. de Supinski, LLNL’s chief technology officer for
of Livermore Computing at LLNL researchers at LLNL, IBM and Red Hat aim to enable Livermore Computing, is one of the top influencers and
next-generation workloads by integrating LLNL’s Flux “people to watch” in the high-performance computing
scheduling framework with Red Hat OpenShift to allow industry for 2021, according to HPCwire.
more traditional high performance computing jobs to Read more
take advantage of cloud and container technologies.
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BLUE LINKS ARE ACCESSIBLE ON BOTH THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAB NETWORK.LLNL salutes air force reservists as a vital part of the to mobilize supercomputing access for future crises.
Lab’s workforce. Read more
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LLNL, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence
Three LLNL postdoctoral appointees are selected to Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC National
attend the 70th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Accelerator Laboratory, as part of the Bay Area Lab
Germany thanks to the University of California President’s Innovation Networking Center, showcase partnership
2021 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows Program. mechanisms at a three-day event specifically designed
Read more for businesses. The series, dubbed “Open the Door to
Partnerships,” features fast-paced 45-minute programs,
Chris Cross, deputy associate program leader alongside opportunities to ask specific questions directly
for Weapons and Complex Integration’s Strategic to lab officials.
Partnership Programs, receives the Meritorious Civilian Read more
The Krell Institute honored Lawrence Livermore Service Award from the Department of the Army for his
National computational scientist Jeff Hittinger with its time on the Army Science Board. LLESA launches “Family Fun Month” to engage
2021 James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Read more employees, contractors and their families virtually.
Building and Communication for his work with the Read more
Department of Energy’s Computational Science The Krell Institute, a nonprofit organization serving
Graduate Fellowship and applied math programs and the scientific and educational communities, awards James “Hondo” Geurts, undersecretary of the U.S. Navy,
his mentorship and research activities. LLNL computational scientist Jeff Hittinger with its sends a letter of thanks to lead editor Zachary Davis,
2021 James Corones Award in Leadership, Community congratulating the team for its work on “Strategic Latency
Building and Communication. Unleashed: The Role of Technology in a Revisionist
Read more Global Order and the Implications for Special Operations
“Jim (Corones) helped shape the field of Forces.” The book is a collection of essays on disruptive
The Lab welcomes retired Maj. Gen. Julie. Bentz for effects of the technology revolution written by scholars
computational science as it grew over the last a series of briefings and tours. Bentz, who serves on from the Center for Global Security Research.
three decades, and I am both honored and WCI’s External Review Committee, meets with Director Read more
a bit overwhelmed to be recognized in his Kim Budil before touring the National Security Vault
and the National Ignition Facility. She also participates LLNL calls attention to Autism Awareness Month,
memory. I had the opportunity to work with and in briefings and a roundtable discussion on countering providing an opportunity to appreciate and recognize
learn from him, and it’s with pleasure — and nuclear, chemical and biological threats. autism awareness and neurodiversity as a component of
Read more LLNL’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
a sense of responsibility — that I am able to
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continue and to build on his vision for the DOE
CSGF program and computational science
OPERATIONS LLNL Director Kim Budil gives her first all-hands talk
since assuming the role, presenting her goals for the
more broadly.” COVID-19 HPC Consortium scientists and stakeholders coming months as the Lab readies for a phased return
meet virtually to mark the consortium’s one-year to on-site work.
anniversary, discussing the progress of research Read more
– Computational scientist Jeff Hittinger projects and the need to pursue a broader organization
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BLUE LINKS ARE ACCESSIBLE ON BOTH THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAB NETWORK.The Laboratory releases the annual report for fiscal The Advanced Data Analytics for Proliferation Detection
year 2020 to provide stakeholders, sponsors and program brings together researchers from LLNL and other
employees with a summary of LLNL’s national security national laboratories to enable earlier detection of low-
mission milestones, programmatic and operational profile nuclear proliferation.
accomplishments and contributions to the community. Read more
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Using thin-film multi-electrode arrays developed at LLNL,
MAY UCSF researchers generate never-before-seen recordings
of brain activity in the hippocampus, a region responsible
for memory and other cognitive functions.
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A new LLNL analysis of satellite cloud observations finds
LLNL and UC Merced scientists and collaborators from that global warming causes low-level clouds over the
the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Germany find oceans to decrease, leading to further warming.
In a study at the University of California, San Francisco, use for carbon nanotubes to enable direct drug delivery Read more
neurologists place thin-film multi-electrode arrays from liposomes through the plasma membrane into the cell
developed at Lawrence Livermore on the exposed interior by facilitating fusion of the carrier membrane with LLNL scientists use three-dimensional radiation
hippocampus of patients undergoing epilepsy-related the cell. hydrodynamics simulations to quantify how high-
surgeries. Pictured are LLNL researchers Michael Triplett
Read more energy-density (HED) mixing is similar to or different
(left) and Jenny Zhou. from non-HED mixing. The work is the culmination of
Predatory bacteria – bacteria that eat other bacteria nearly five years of research by a multidisciplinary team
– grow faster and consume more resources than non- of 16 LLNL scientists.
predators in the same soil, according to a new study by Read more
LLNL and Northern Arizona University.
“The combination of precision data from these Read more A Lab researcher and collaborators analyze the diversity
devices with next-generation data analytics protist communities associated with the rhizosphere
LLNL scientists find that bacteria present in soils and and surrounding soil of switchgrass plants in different
promises to not only further our understanding sediments can facilitate the precipitation of uranium- developmental stages.
of the inner workings of the brain, phosphate minerals that do not precipitate abiotically. Read more
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but lead to transformative cures for
LLNL scientists and international collaborators outline key
neurological disorders.” Ten LLNL scientists take part in the 7th IAA Planetary challenges and future directions in using machine learning
Defense Conference, hosted by the United Nations and other data-driven techniques to better understand
– Shankar Sundaram, director of Office for Outer Space Affairs in cooperation with the extreme conditions that potentially pave the pathway to
LLNL’s Center for Bioengineering European Space Agency. Team members also present nuclear fusion as an industrial power source.
on the effects of modeling the NASA Double Asteroid Read more
Redirection Test spacecraft’s detailed geometry in its
high-speed impact with asteroid Dimorphos, planned New research by LLNL climate scientists and
for fall 2022. collaborators shows that satellite measurements of the
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BLUE LINKS ARE ACCESSIBLE ON BOTH THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAB NETWORK.temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region of the Director Kim Budil and Deputy Director for Science
atmosphere) may have underestimated global warming and Technology Pat Falcone welcome University of
over the last 40 years. California Regent and LLNS Board of Governors Chair
Read more Jonathan “Jay” Sures to the Lab.
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Research conducted at LLNL is the first to apply neural
networks to the study of high-intensity short-pulse laser- In honor of Military Appreciation month, LLNL begins
plasma acceleration, specifically for ion acceleration a monthly showcase of those who have served in the
from solid targets. armed forces or are currently serving to exemplify the
Read more Laboratory’s commitment to veterans and armed forces
service members.
LLNL scientists and collaborators reveal experimental Read more
evidence to support the prediction of helium rain on
planets such as Jupiter and Saturn, showing that Linda Bauer, deputy director of the Laboratory,
An international research team, including scientists from helium rain is possible over a range of pressure and discusses the Lab’s committment serving the best
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, validate a temperature conditions that mirror those expected to interests of our nation.
nearly 40-year-old prediction and experimentally show occur inside these planets. Read more
that helium rain is possible inside planets such as Read more
Jupiter and Saturn. Image by NASA/JPL/Space Science Two Lawrence Livermore postdoctoral researchers are
Scientists examine the performance of pure boron, boron among a select group of 200 scientists invited to attend
Institute.
carbide, high-density carbon and boron nitride ablators — the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, an international
the material that surrounds a fusion fuel and couples with conference that connects young researchers with
the laser or hohlraum radiation in an experiment — in the laureates of the major prizes in mathematics and
polar direct drive exploding pusher platform, which is used computer science.
at the National Ignition Facility. Read more
“Jupiter is especially interesting because it’s
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thought to have helped protect the inner-planet The 2021 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
region where Earth formed. We may be here PEOPLE Recognition, the premier conference of its kind, features
two papers co-authored by a LLNL researcher targeted
because of Jupiter.” at improving the understanding of robust machine
Materials scientist Bill Pitz is selected as a 2021
learning models.
– Raymond Jeanloz, co-author and professor SAE fellow. SAE International is a global association
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committed to advancing mobility knowledge and
solutions for the benefit of humanity.
The summer student program is back in full swing. The
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2021 program continues virtually this year, welcoming
approximately 600 students to the Laboratory.
Local high school students learn what it’s like to be
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one of the more than 150 machinists who work at
LLNL during the Materials Engineering Division’s
Penn State graduate student Joseph Mattocks is
Manufacturing Workshop.
selected to serve at Lawrence Livermore as part of the
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BLUE LINKS ARE ACCESSIBLE ON BOTH THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAB NETWORK.Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate tuned to produce large and measurable changes in the
Student Research Program. group velocity of light.
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Using a new approach, dubbed shockless or ramp
OPERATIONS compression, a team from LLNL, Sandia National
Laboratories and the University of Hyogo determine how
The Laboratory is honored by the American Indian
gold and platinum compress when they are squeezed to 1
Science and Engineering Society Winds of Change
terapascals (TPa) with extremely high precision. Then, they
magazine as one of the Top 50 STEM Workplaces
used their data to derive new pressure scales to 1 TPa.
in 2021, as an organization setting the standard for
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indigenous STEM professionals.
Engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Read more
A LLNL team highlights how nuclear weapon blasts close to
Laboratory and their collaborators develop a light- the Earth’s surface create complications in their effects and
GetActive, the six-week health challenge where employees
activated switch that, if fully deployed on the apparent yields.
can engage in some fun competition with others at the Lab
electrical grid, could reduce carbon emissions by Read more
to be as active as you can, kicks off.
more than 10 percent.
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A team of LLNL materials and computer scientists create
machine learning models that can predict molecules’
The East Gate located off Greenville Road reopens,
crystalline properties from their chemical structures alone,
marking another milestone on the Return to New Normal.
such as molecular density. This offers an efficient method
“Without discovering the physics and Read more
to infer a material’s properties, thus expediting materials
parameters behind a phenomenon, any The Timekeeping and Integrated Management of Effort
design and discovery.
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material is simply a black box. Once we knew application becomes available for all Lab employees,
replacing LITE.
how much vanadium we needed to put in, Thousands of images of Earth and space are taken by
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it opened up a whole new avenue for a compact space imaging payload developed by LLNL
researchers and its collaborator Tyvak Nano-Satellite
looking at the problem.”
JUNE Systems. Known as GEOStare2, the Tyvak nanosatellite
weighs 25 pounds and flies into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon
– Paulius Grivickas, physicist and staff scientist, 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
remarking on a light-activated switch SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Read more
Engineers at the Laboratory and their collaborators LLNL engineers design a new kind of laser-driven
develop a light-activated switch that, if fully deployed on the semiconductor switch that can theoretically achieve higher
electrical grid, could reduce carbon emissions by more than speeds at higher voltages than existing photoconductive
10 percent. devices. The development of such a device could enable
Read more next-generation satellite communication systems capable
of transferring more data at a faster rate and over longer
Scientists from LLNL and the Laboratory for Laser distances, according to the research team.
Energetics describe how a laser-plasma system can be Read more
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BLUE LINKS ARE ACCESSIBLE ON BOTH THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAB NETWORK.Scientists at Lawrence Livermore determine that heating
For the first time, LLNL scientists identify all the N95 respirators up to 75 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes
subtypes of healthy cartilage in a healthy joint and deactivates a surrogate coronavirus without compromising
conduct a 1:1 assessment of molecular changes the device’s fit and its ability to filter airborne particles.
associated with joint injury in these subpopulations
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of cells, pointing the way toward the development of
effective methods for cartilage repair and regeneration.
Read more PEOPLE
Scientists at LLNL collaborate with the Princeton Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, chief of Space Operations
Plasma Physics Laboratory to design a novel X-ray for the United States Space Force, visits the Laboratory for
crystal spectrometer, named HiRAXS, to provide high- briefings and tours.
resolution measurements of a challenging feature of Read more
high energy density matter produced by National Ignition
Facility experiments. Two scientists from LLNL are recipients of the 2021
Read more Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career
Inspired by the way plants absorb and distribute water
Research Program award. Andrea Schmidt and Xue
and nutrients, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A team of scientists from the Lab, the University Zheng are among 83 scientists nationwide selected for
researchers develop a groundbreaking method for
of Texas at Austin and General Atomics conducts the recognition.
transporting liquids and gases using 3D-printed lattice experimental measurements of hot electron production Read more
design and capillary action phenomena. Illustration by using a short-pulse, high-contrast laser on cone and
Jacob Long/LLNL. planar targets. Increasing the coupling into high-energy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl and
electrons in these interactions is crucial for developing Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and
applications from laser-plasma interactions. Force and Development Eric Ridge visit the Laboratory for
Read more briefings and tours.
“Porous media — like sponges or paper or Read more
Research by an LLNL physicist and a host of
fabrics — generally tend to have disordered collaborators sheds new light on one of the major Rachelle Jeppson is selected as the chief financial officer
microstructure and are therefore difficult to challenges to realizing the promise and potential of (CFO) for LLNL. As CFO, Jeppson oversees the Lab’s
quantum computing — error correction. $2.6 billion annual budget and provides management
describe analytically and computationally. Read more and leadership for a large staff of financial professionals
Cellular fluidics allows you to, in a sense, covering accounting, budget and financial analysis.
LLNL researchers develop 3D-printed micro-architected Read more
create an ordered ‘sponge,’ where liquids structures capable of containing and flowing fluids to
and gases travel exactly where you want create extensive and controlled contacts between liquids Over the three weeks of the Data Science Challenge,
them to go.” and gases. students from the University of California, Merced
Read more collaborate online with mentors at LLNL to tackle a real-
world challenge problem: using machine learning to
– LLNL staff scientist Nikola Dudukovic identify potentially hazardous asteroids that could pose an
Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories
continue to collaborate on diagnostic advancements on existential threat to humanity.
the nation’s premier high-energy density facilities. Read more
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BLUE LINKS ARE ACCESSIBLE ON BOTH THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAB NETWORK.Four aspiring machinists officially join an exclusive club — The African American Body of Laboratory Employees
LLNL’s Machinist Apprenticeship Program — by signing celebrates Juneteenth with keynote speaker Aziza
their apprenticeship agreements during an indenturing Shepherd.
ceremony at the Lab. Read more
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In honor of Pride Month, each year the Livermore Pride
Engineer Bill Pitz earns a lifetime distinguished employee resource group brings forward speakers
achievement award from the Department of Energy’s and forums of interest to PRIDE members to provide
Vehicle Technologies Office for his significant contributions opportunities to further the culture of inclusion at work
to the field of chemical kinetics. Pitz, along with retiree for all Lab employees.
Charles Westbrook, produced a chemical kinetic study of Read more
fuel additives for engine knock in spark ignition engines,
a feat that earned them the 1991 Horning Award from the
Society of Automotive Engineers.
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First Lt. Jaida Sinclair and Capt. Ashley Oerlemans
Zepeda serve in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps LLNL joins in the celebration of the U.S. Army birthday
(ROTC) together and recently became part of the same on June 14. LLNL is proud to have several Army The Lab’s new telecommuting policy and accompanying
Army reserves unit. reservists as part of the workforce. Lab employees First website is now available to employees.
Lt. Jaida Sinclair and Capt. Ashley Oerlemans Zepeda, Read more
who have been friends for 10 years, are featured.
Read more The Lab extends its blanket telecommuting agreement,
which allows employees to work from home without a
“Service is a family tradition. My
Laboratory health physicist Brooke Buddemeier is formal agreement, through the end of September 2021.
grandfather on my dad’s side was part re-elected for a third term to the National Council on Read more
of the Stoottroepen, an infantry regiment Radiation Protection and Measurements.
Read more In a virtual all-hands meeting attended by nearly 4,400
composed of members of the Dutch
employees, Lab Director Kim Budil lays the groundwork
Resistance during WWII. My grandfather The Global Security Principal Directorate holds an all- for a new flexible part-time telecommuting policy,
on my mom’s side served in both the hands meeting and its biannual Gold Awards ceremony allowing employees to return to the workplace under a
to recognize outstanding contributions and one-time hybrid approach, incorporating both telework and on-site
Korean and Vietnam Wars. My dad was work.
achievements that are above and beyond the demands
a U.S. military police officer, and I have of normal job performance. Read more
multiple cousins that have served in the Read more
Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm
U.S. Army as well.” participates in a special “virtual visit” to the Lab, hosting
The Weapons and Complex Integration Principal
Directorate holds its annual Gold Awards ceremony a virtual town hall meeting for all Laboratory and NNSA
– Ashley Oerlemans Zepeda to recognize outstanding contributions and one-time Livermore Field Office employees.
achievements in support of the Laboratory’s national Read more
security missions.
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