Los Alamos National Laboratory is a Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory, managed by the University of California. The Laboratory is one of the largest multidisciplinary institutions in the world. It is the largest institution and the largest employer in Northern New Mexico with approximately 7,500 University of California employees plus approximately 3,200 contractor personnel. Our annual budget is approximately $2.2 billion.

Approximately one-third of the Laboratory's technical staff members are physicists, one-fourth are engineers, one-sixth are chemists and materials scientists, and the remainder work in mathematics and computational science, biological science, geoscience, and other disciplines. Professional scientists and students also come to Los Alamos as visitors to participate in scientific projects. Our staff collaborates with universities and industry in both basic and applied research to develop resources for the future.