Event Information

The 2024 NNSA Energetics Coordinating Committee (NECC) event will be held Tuesday, May 21st through Thursday, May 23rd, 2024 at Sandia National Laboratories.

The meeting location is: Building 905, Conference Room 103

Directions to Building 905

Directions to Conference Room 103

Agenda

Days 1 & 2:  Site Updates, Moderated Sessions and Special Topics

No-Host Event
A No-Host Event will be held on Tuesday, May 21st at Sawmill Market located at:

1909 Bellamah Ave. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104

Day 3:  Tours of the SNL HE&E Facilities. (Optional)
Both tour options will end at 11:30 a.m. MT on Thursday, May 23, 2024 to assist you in arranging for travel

Attendees wanting to participate in the tours must choose from the following options when registering:

Tour Option 1: 

Building 905 Explosive Component Facility (ECF) Complex – The ECF provides energetics science and technology, material science, and component design and development. Features include explosives testing labs, firing chambers and pads, and storage bunkers.  Explosive storage bunkers and other support buildings are included in the complex.

Tour Option 2:

Light Initiated High Explosives (LIHE) Test Facility – Test facility to simulate shock loading from external sources and to investigate the structural response of complex test items such as re-entry bodies/vehicles. 

Terminal Ballistics Facility (TBF) – The TBF employs conventional and custom explosive loads to conduct interior ballistics, projectile flight, terminal ballistics, armor performance, and other investigations.

Note: Each tour option will be limited to 40 persons

Food and Beverage

The agenda includes working lunches on Day 1 and Day 2. We will be partnering with SNL’s onsite catering to offer meals within per diem rates. If you choose to opt out, you cannot partake.

Day 1:
Breakfast – Mini Pastries, Assorted Fruit, Starbucks Coffee
Lunch – Sandwich/Wrap, Chips, Cookies, Drink
Afternoon snacks

Day 2:
Breakfast – Breakfast Burritos (Bacon/Sausage/No Meat), Starbucks Coffee
Lunch – Pulled Pork Sliders/BBQ Chicken, Garden Salad, Soup, Potato Salad, Corn, Lemon Bars, Drink
Afternoon snacks

Note: Food and beverages are only available to those who prepay. Please select and pay for your meals in advance here

Transportation and Parking

Transportation will not be provided. Parking spaces will be available on a first-come, first-served basis located north of Building 905.

Restrictions

No cell phones, smart watches, 2-way pagers, personal laptop computers, iPads, flash drives, or other electronic transmitting devices allowed in Building 905. 

Government-Owned Laptop Computers

For Government-Owned Laptop Computers please send your completed Government-Owned Request Form to SNL POC: Jessica Wood at NECC2024@sandia.gov

MedPEDS

Those attendees with Medically necessary Portable Electronic Devices (MedPEDs) must request approval from the Sandia Field Office by April 19th, 2024. DOE requires 30 days to process requests. Please send your completed MedPED Form to SNL POC: Jessica Wood at NECC2024@sandia.gov

Medical portable electronic devices (MedPEDs) are:

  • medically necessary devices
  • prescribed or recommended by a licensed practitioner
  • part of a plan to treat a medical condition

For the purpose of this process, MedPEDs include electronic devices with prohibited technology*. This includes devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, drug-releasing pumps, hearing aids, and diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves. MedPEDS can be external or internal (implanted) devices.

* Data storage, camera, microphone, Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth, etc.