National security leader Laura McGill named next director of Sandia
Laura will become Sandia’s 17th Labs director, effective May 1.
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Engineers Week 2025: Spotlight on the chief engineer of nuclear weapons
Lab News interviews Rita Gonzales about her role.
Engineers Week 2025: Success as a result of the people
Meet four Sandia engineers and learn about the paths that led them to the Labs.
B61-12 system production ends, sustainment begins
Sandia and the nuclear security enterprise completed the last production unit of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb, a significant milestone for the nation’s nuclear deterrence program.
Engineers Week
This week, during National Engineers Week, Sandia celebrates the accomplishments of engineers, technicians and technologists at the Labs.
The devil is in the details
Meet Sandia engineer Nate Brannon and the enterprise-wide team that is using a clean-sheet approach to develop a better, faster, cheaper process for delivering weapon systems.
Honoring excellence
NNSA recognized Sandians whose contributions to stockpile stewardship went above and beyond.
New centrifuge spins lasting partnership
The Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory celebrates completion of a new centrifuge. The addition will enable the lab to perform more nonnuclear testing of weapons systems in the U.S. nuclear arsenal in a shorter timeframe.
75th anniversary speaker takes audience “Beyond the Moon”
The Los Alamos National Laboratory historian recounts how Project Rover overcame insurmountable technical problems.
Then and now: Tonopah Test Range control tower
The tower is known for its 360-degree view of the remote desert range. See how it's changed since 1982.