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Listing of Defense Programs news and press releases
As a Black woman in this industry, I am inspired by engineers and scientists like Dr. Mareena Robinson Snowden, the first black woman to earn a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT and NNSA Graduate Fellow alumna. Meet Sabrina Hampton.
DOE/NNSA reached an important milestone on the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project (LAP4), approving Critical Decision-2/3 – Approve Performance Baseline/Approve Start of Construction – for the 30 Base Equipment Installation subproject.
There’s no better time than Exascale Week to honor our director of Advanced Simulation and Computing, Thuc Hoang. Her incredible supercomputing expertise and leadership go all the way back to the origins of our stockpile stewardship program.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Our final installment in this series introduces to you Simón Arias, an alumni of the NNSA Graduate Fellowship Program who now supports the High Explosives and Energetics office that is so key to our nuclear deterrent.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Dr. Tiberius Moran-Lopez, a “trilingual” #nuclear engineer whose expertise in advanced physics, modeling, and #technology maturation directly support our nation’s nuclear stockpile.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! In our latest Women in Defense Programs blog, meet Dr. Nina Rodriguez, a civil engineer who keeps NNSA’s production mission going, and celebrates #HHM by going to speak with and inspire students in local Hispanic communities
In our fifth installment of the Women in Defense Programs series, meet Dr. Sarah Nelson. Within the Office of Research and Development, Dr. Nelson oversees some seriously cutting-edge science and facilities that support our nuclear stockpile.