Re-engineering facilities management at Los Alamos: Managing the behavioral change

Conference · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1994

OSTI ID:10186907

Crider, S A; van der Hoeven, B J

The Los Alamos National Laboratory is a multi-program research and development laboratory operated by the University of California for the Department of Energy. The laboratory was founded in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. The laboratory has major programs in nuclear weapons technology, non-nuclear defense, environmental preservation and restoration, health and biotechnology, and other areas of national importance. Today the laboratory`s vision is to be a world class laboratory solving complex problems of national importance where science makes a difference. The laboratory will continue its special role in defense, particularly in nuclear weapons technology, and will increasingly use its multi-disciplinary capabilities to solve problems in the civilian sector. Recognizing the changing environment, major strides are being made in collaborations with US industry. Over 70 Cooperative R&D Agreements (CRADA`s) are in progress and more than 15 separate spin-off companies have been created. The nuclear weapons program is responding to new priorities with increased emphasis on weapons dismantlement, control of proliferation, emphasis on development of technologies that can have dual use (both defense and commercial) as well as continuing stewardship of the existing stockpile. The laboratory has a strong tradition of ownership of its products from ``cradle to grave,`` and this tradition bodes well for the future as it becomes more externally market driven.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 10186907
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--94-3184; CONF-9411134--1; ON: DE95000915
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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