The_Info_Web/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Sandia National Laboratories.md

tags	category	summary	relations	updated	start	location
Organization Research Nuclear USA	U.S. Government	Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. national laboratory that conducts research and development in nuclear weapons and other areas.	type with reverse start end role fn contractor_to Lockheed Martin true 1993 2017 management of the laboratory through Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company 2	2026-10-15	1945	Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. national laboratory that conducts research and development in nuclear weapons and other areas. By the late 1960s, much of the United States' primary analysis of nuclear intelligence had shifted to laboratories like Sandia and Los Alamos, where intelligence units dealing with the Soviet Union and China had been set up after World War II. These units began monitoring the transfer of nuclear technology and countries viewed as "nth" nations, or near-nuclear countries.¹

Management

From 1993 to 2017 the laboratory was run through Sandia Corporation, which the laboratory's own history describes as "a Lockheed Martin company from 1993-2017." Before that the corporation was a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric.² The company's Energy and Environment sector managed the laboratory as part of its Department of Energy portfolio, and in its 1996 filing the company described the laboratory as a federally funded research and development center with responsibilities for national security programs in defense, energy and the environment.³ Albert Narath was president of Sandia Corporation from April 1989 to August 14, 1995, and then became president and chief operating officer of the company's Energy and Environment sector.³ In 2017 management passed to National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International.²

Footnotes

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1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 11. ↩︎

2. Sandia National Laboratories, "Sandia's Government Owned/Contractor Operated heritage," https://www.sandia.gov/about/history/goco.html ↩︎

3. Lockheed Martin Corporation, Form 10-K405 for the fiscal year 1995, filed March 13, 1996, Item 1, Energy and Environment Sector, and Part I, Item 4A, Executive Officers of the Registrant, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936468/0000950109-96-001535.txt ↩︎