The LLNL Director is appointed by the Board of Governors of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC ( LLNS ) and reports to the board.

Over the course of its 55 year history, eleven eminent scientists have served as LLNL Director:

The LLNL Director is supported by a senior executive team consisting of the Deputy Director, the Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Principal Associate Directors, and other senior executives who manage areas / functions directly reporting to the Laboratory Director.

Three other directorates are each headed by an Associate Director who reports to the LLNL Director:

LLNS managers and employees who work at LLNL, up to and including the President / Laboratory Director, are generally referred to as Laboratory Employees.

Current NIF Director Ed Moses, former head of the Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation ( AVLIS ) program at LLNL, became NIF project manager.

One such technology, being developed by researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), employs a " sandwich immunoassay ", in which fluorescent dye-labeled antibodies aimed at specific pathogens are attached to silver and gold nanowires.

Retrieved on 2008-03-01 </ ref > Other long-lived isotopes were unsuccessfully targeted by a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in 1988 by bombarding einsteinium-254 with neon-22.

* The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) in Dubna, Russia, led principally by Y. Oganessian, in collaboration with several other laboratories including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), since 2000:

Award of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory contract to LLNS LLC took effect October 1, 2007, rounding out Bechtel's control of the bulk of the US nuclear weapons facilities including LANL ( design ), LLNL ( design ), Savannah River Site ( nuclear materials ), Hanford Site ( nuclear materials ), Pantex Plant ( assembly / disassembly ), and Y-12 National Security Complex ( nuclear materials ).

JGI was founded in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in genome mapping, DNA sequencing, technology development, and information sciences pioneered at the three genome centers at University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), and LANL.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center ( FFRDC ) founded by the University of California in 1952.

LLNL was established in 1952 as the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore as an offshoot of the existing University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley.

Main oil shale processing technologies worked out by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are LLNL HRS ( hot-recycled-solid ), LLNL RISE ( in situ extraction technology ) and LLNL radiofrequency technologies.

One such technology, being developed by researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), employs a " sandwich immunoassay ", in which fluorescent dye-labeled antibodies aimed at specific pathogens are attached to silver and gold nanowires.

On January 1, 1957, the U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission selected the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ( LLNL ) predecessor, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, to study the feasibility of applying heat from nuclear reactors to ramjet engines.

Classified weapon research would take place at Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL ) ( established during the war ) and the new Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), established by Lawrence and Edward Teller from what was originally a splinter from the original Radiation Laboratory.

Other partners are the Sandia National Laboratories, the University of California ( UC ) campuses of Berkeley and Davis, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ).

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In November 2001, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) joined IBM as a research partner for Blue Gene.

* The archetypal Blue Gene / Q system called Sequoia was delivered to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) beginning in 2011 and was fully deployed in June 2012.

Another area of research was directed into energy weapons, including a nuclear-explosion powered X-ray laser proposal developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in 1968.

Microreactor technologies developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | LLNL use micromachining techniques to miniaturize the reactor design.

David Herbert Munro ( born April 29, 1955 in Oakland, California ) is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) who created the programming language Yorick as well as the scientific graphics library Gist.

On March 14, 2011, the City of Livermore officially expanded the city's boundaries to annex LLNL and move it within the city limits.

The unanimous vote by the Livermore City Council expanded Livermore ’ s southeastern boundaries to cover 15 land parcels covering that comprise the LLNL site.

In August 2009 it was announced that a joint venture known as the Livermore Valley Open Campus ( LVOC ) would be created between Sandia National Laboratories / California campus and LLNL to promote collaboration between the scientists at these labs and their counterparts in industry and academia.

LLNL is home to many unique facilities and a number of the most powerful computer systems in the world, according to the TOP500 list, including Blue Gene / L, the world's fastest computer from 2004 until Los Alamos National Laboratory's IBM Roadrunner supercomputer surpassed it in 2008.

In addition, LLNL conducts work-for-others research and development for various Defense Department sponsors, other federal agencies, including NASA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), National Institutes of Health, and Environmental Protection Agency, a number of California State agencies, and private industry.

The resulting design, now known as the National Ignition Facility, started construction at LLNL in 1997.

Today the JGI's partner laboratories include Berkeley Lab, LLNL, LANL, as well as Oak Ridge ( ORNL ), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ), and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology ( formerly associated with the Stanford Human Genome Center ).

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) decided that direct experimentation was the best way to settle the issue, and between 1978 and 1988 ran a series of underground experiments at the Nevada Test Site ( now known as Nevada National Security Site ), that used small nuclear bombs to directly illuminate ICF fuel components with high-energy X-rays ; LLNL ran its program under the name " Halite ", while LANL ran its as " Centurion ".

On October 1, 2007 LLNS assumed management of LLNL from the University of California, which had exclusively managed and operated the Laboratory since its inception 55 years before.

The Board of Governors is the ultimate governing body of LLNS and is charged with overseeing the affairs of LLNS in its operations and management of LLNL.

While most of the work performed by LLNL is funded by the federal government, Laboratory employees are paid by LLNS which is responsible for all aspects of their employment including providing health care benefits and retirement programs.

The LLNS Executive Committee is free to appoint officers or other managers of LLNS and LLNL, and may delegate its authorities as it deems appropriate to such officers, employees, or other representatives of LLNS / LLNL.

For the most part the Executive Committee has appointed senior managers at LLNL as the primary officers of LLNS.

The Board of Governors uses the following committees to oversee the management and operations of LLNL by LLNS:

LLNL supports capabilities in a broad range of scientific and technical disciplines, applying current capabilities to existing programs and developing new science and technologies to meet future national needs.

* Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: LLNL ’ s Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ( CAMS ) develops and applies a wide range of isotopic and ion-beam analytical tools used in basic research and technology development, addressing a spectrum of scientific needs important to the Laboratory, the university community, and the nation.

Throughout its history, LLNL has been a leader in computers and scientific computing.

On June 22, 2006, researchers at LLNL announced that they had devised a scientific software application that sustained 207. 3 trillion operations per second.