A letter from the Labs Director
Welcome to the 2023 edition of the annual Lab News Labs Accomplishments. Here you’ll find a snapshot of significant work performed in fiscal year 2022 by the remarkable staff at Sandia National Laboratories.
Behind each project is a team of dedicated, hard-working people helping solve the nation’s toughest national security challenges. From critical milestones in our missions to scientific breakthroughs to powerful advances in support operations, Sandians consistently provide “exceptional service in the national interest.”
Our work is needed now more than ever. Sandia’s national security missions, including maintaining the safety, reliability and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, are evermore critical as the world faces an ever-widening array of threats.
This edition is overflowing with successes by Sandia staff. You’ll read about our contributions to stockpile stewardship, nonproliferation, homeland protection, energy security, national security and international partnerships. We showed leadership in safety, quality and employee benefits. And our generosity to people in need has improved thousands of lives.
There is much here to be proud of, but it’s practically impossible to cover every accomplishment. Moreover, many of our achievements have come in areas that are too sensitive for general publication.
Enjoy this look at the outstanding work done by Sandians united in their dedication to the security of this country and its citizens. It will be time well spent.
— James S. Peery, Laboratories Director
About this Publication
This year’s Labs Accomplishments highlights some of Sandia’s best work during fiscal year 2022, as submitted by the Labs’ Center offices and selected by Division offices. Readers will see numbers in parentheses following many of the entries that indicate the Centers where the bulk of the work for those accomplishments was performed.
Download the 2023 Labs Accomplishments (PDF, 4.1 MB).
Cover Features
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An inert nuclear gravity bomb fell 2,500 feet from a F-15E Strike Eagle, landing nose first in a dried lake bed at Sandia’s Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. The weapon’s parachute aided in the descent and drapes the mock B61-4 at the conclusion of the flight test Sept. 13, 2022.
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“I am proud to be contributing to weapon stockpile and national security. I like what I do, and there are opportunities to make things better. I’m still here after 40 years and wouldn’t be anywhere else,” said Sandia Quality Technologist Joanna Lewis, who posed for a photo as part of Lab News’ "Answering the call” series in support of the Labs’ Nuclear Deterrence Modernization Rally Cry in 2022.
— Photos by Craig Fritz