Provides scientific and engineering solutions to enhance the security, prosperity and well-being of the nation. Performs a wide variety of national security research and development work in partnership with universities and industry. The original mission- to provide engineering design for all non-nuclear components of the nation's nuclear weapons- continues today.

• Sandia Corporation is run by Lockheed Martin Corporation for the Department of Energy
• Largest employer on Kirtland Air Force Base; approximately 9,000 employees and contractors
• Central interface with the Department of Defense for weapons requirements, system design, logistics, surveillance, maintenance, training and dismantlement
• Home of some of the world's fastest computers
• World's most advanced facility dedicated to research and development of robots and other intelligent machines
• Synergy and co-location with Department of Defense units produce a nuclear center at Kirtland Air Force Base

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