Los Alamos National Laboratory's primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory.

In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines.

As broad, deep, and complex as the Laboratory's activities may be, 12 Labwide goals convey their essence, and recent achievements toward them demonstrate our commitment:

Safe, Secure Workplace

• Made radical changes to ACREM management process
• Reissued IMP 300 Integrated Work Management to align with new Conduct of Operations Manual

Exemplary Cyber Security

• Implemented Radio Frequency ID portal pilot project to reduce cell phone security incidents
• Established an Enterprise-wide electronic ACREM system
• Implemented a cyber security system that reduces risk while providing exemplary service and productivity

Environmental Stewards

• Shipped 2,957 PE-Ci to WIPP to date this calendar year
• Increased TRUPACT II shipment rate from 2 to 4 per week

Reliable Nuclear Deterrence

• Delivered B61 11 first production unit 1/07
• Fabricated and delivered first W88 WR Pit for quality acceptance

The Future Weapons Complex

• Held RRW-2 kick off meeting in Albuquerque
• Applied basic X Division code team components the Roadrunner base system. Ported all key transport codes to Roadrunner base system

Anticipate Threats with Science and Technology

• Launched Cibola Flight Experiment (CFE) satellite
• Developed new multi-million dollar programs in unconventional fuels development (e.g., oil shale and tar sands) with industrial partners

National Security Science Lab

• Developed Open MPI power the SNL Thunderbird platform to #6 on the top 500 Supercomputer list
• Implemented Los Alamos XCPU project and demonstrated cross-platform shared library setup from Opteron to Cell which will be needed for the Roadrunner hybrid architecture
• Doubled process yield for a specific Pu machining process

Responsive Infrastructure

• Completed clean outs in TA 48, 46, 59 and 51
• Disposed over 240 m3 of uncontrolled mixed low level waste

Drive Superior Performance

• Kicked off Performance Improvement process for FY08-FY12 with Deputy Director
• Populated with over 1000 metrics the LANL Dashboard (using benchmarked commercial software) and used the Dashboard as a performance risk management tool at Director's Portfolio Reviews
• Trained 177 Yellow Belts, 189 Champions, and over 1200 managers and staff on Lean Six Sigma

Business Excellence

• Reduced 20% in cycle time in $5M to $10M procurements, 178 days
• Rolled out e-Auction program with 5 e-Auctions to date and an average of 17% savings per event

Effective Communication

• Co-developed with IST, CIO (IW), and IRM new daily electronic employee publication that will save money and increase effectiveness
• Supported Tribal Education Initiatives: Conducted Summer Science Program at Valle Caldera for 176 students from 4 Accord Pueblos (numerous other accomplishments)

Successful Workforce

• Briefed managers on new benchmarked compensation and job classification system and provided additional information on policy principles and end state of R&D TSM structure design
• Completed Performance Based Leadership (PBL) program with Director and 16 senior executives