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LOS ALAMOS A N ATIONAL S ECURITY S CIENTIFIC L ABORATORY FOR THE 21 ST C ENTURY Alan Bishop March 2015 The nation’s investment in Los Alamos has fostered scientific capabilities for national security missions As a Premier National Security Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos tackles:  Multidisciplinary science, technology, and engineering challenges  Problems demanding unique experimental and computational facilities  Highly complex national security issues requiring fundamental breakthroughs UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 1 U N C L A S S I F I E D Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Applying multidisciplinary capability is inherent in our broad program and workforce base FY15 est. Budget Approx. 10,000 National Security specialists collaborate on Authority: $2.15B a 36-sq.-mile site in a wide variety of technical disciplines Post Doc 4% Lab Executive NNSA DOE Energy & Associate Student Other Programs 0% Safeguards & DOE Office of Business 1% 10% Security $57M Science 14% Craft 8% IT 6% DOE 3% $115M / 5% $86M / 4% Staff Env. Mgmt. Aug Science & $167M Operations 3% Engineering 8% R&D 18% Suppt 11% 22% Work for Others NNSA $272M / 13% Nonproliferation Proj-Prog $202M / 9% Mgmt 3% R&D Disciplines NNSA Other 3% Weapons Physics Chemistry Programs Disciplines & Materials 34% Science $1,250M 19% 58% Math & Computer Engineering Life Science Sci 11% 25% 8% UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 2 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

As a National Security Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos maintains broad and deep STE capabilities for multi-program leverage Stockpile Stewardship Global Security Energy Security Research Reactor Sensors Weapons Assessment Conversion Nitrogen oxide and Nondestructive laser gas sampling ammonia sensors High flux isotope reactor Pure Alloyed plutonium plutonium Materials Energy generation Terahertz Metamaterials Plutonium Science & transmission Electromagnetic wave polarization Metallurgy and propagation UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 3 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

A robust ecosystem for scientific vitality and mission impact *Reciprocal pipelines of People, Ideas, Partnerships * Fundamental National Security Science Program Education Center  Institutes  Students Aligns innovative S CIENTIFIC  Postdocs capability with strategic program directions V ITALITY Strategic Partnerships Community Involvement  Agencies  Conferences  Universities  Professional  Labs Service  Industry Mission Facilities International User Facilities Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Los Alamos Neutron Science UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 4 Center Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Los Alamos leverages its intellectual assets through strategic ‘win - win’ partnerships Technology Transfer Labs & Universities “ Results from our reliability technology partnership with Los Alamos will reduce P&G costs by $1.5B annually.” – Mark Peterson, Procter & Gamble International Partnerships New Mexico Consortium “Smart House” Japanese Ministry PRObe of Technology Supercomputing (NEDO) with Center ribbon-cutting Los Alamos County UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 5 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Our partnerships are strategic and diverse, e.g. Science of sensors extend Global partners advance to multiple applications AIDS research Los Alamos developed the “mosaic Remote sensing and detection have applications everywhere — vaccine” concept: a predictive framework from Mars Rover to non-proliferation, to identify the most space, defense, and intelligence. active epitopes in the immune system response and apply to a vaccine strategy. We provide databases, theory, simulation, and high-performance computing design tools to the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise and the CHAVI Consortium. UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 6 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Los Alamos Science, Technology & Engineering Capability Pillars Build cross-disciplinary teaming experience and confidence for current and future missions S CIENTIFIC E XCELLENCE FOR N ATIONAL S ECURITY LANL Energy & Nuclear Global M ISSIONS Emerging Deterrence Security Threats Integrating Assets for Program Execution Materials for Science of the Future Signatures Nuclear and Information, Science, Particle Futures and Technology UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 7 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Los Alamos Materials Strategy — The result of a many-decade iteration of STE & Missions The Materials Capability Pillar advances our vision to develop materials with “controlled functionality” to provide solutions enabling Los Alamos’ missions Controlled Functionality UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 8 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Thrusts define the Areas of Leadership for the Materials Pillar Actinide and Correlated Electron Energetic Materials  Prediction and control of explosives Materials  Understanding and controlling safety, initiation, and performance  Invent and utilize revolutionary emergent electronic states  Actinide materials science center of diagnostics excellence Materials Dynamics  Predicting and controlling plutonium  Linking material microstructure to aging and lifetime macroscopic behavior under dynamics Integrated Nanomaterials deformation conditions  Prediction and control of dynamic  Center for Nanophotonics processes  Center for Strategic Nanomaterials  Next generation diagnostics, dynamic Materials in Radiation Extremes drivers, and predictive models  Advanced nuclear fuels nuclear Complex Functional Materials waste materials  Bio-inspired materials  Advanced radiation temperature  Materials for energy conversion, tolerant structural materials storage, and transmission UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 9 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

We are not alone in our interest in “microstructure to performance” — Los Alamos is involved broadly with the community The “mesoscale” challenge is to observe the dynamic evolution of polycrystalline materials at the granular and sub-granular level meso2012.com Materials Genome science.energy.gov Whitehouse.gov Sub- m m resolution 100’s – 1000’s m m samples; Sub-ns resolution, ~30 frames in1 m s duration UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 10 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Advanced (including Additive) Manufacturing: Prediction and control of manufacturing processes — bringing “Science,” “Engineering” & “Manufacturing” closer — Energy futures/extraction Lightweight materials Intelligent manufacturing Advanced photonics Integrated Advanced fabrication Biomanufacturing Computational technologies Materials Engineering Manufacturing Sensors/Diagn Processes – ostics for Prototype to Control Large-scale UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 11 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Los Alamos’ Plutonium S&R Strategy supports National Plutonium Stewardship Many experiments at national user facilities enabled by special isotopes and radiological facilities  n-scattering on 242 PuCoGa 5 single crystals and d - 242 Pu at LANSCE, NIST, and SNS (30 g Pu)  Produced ~1 mm single crystal grains of d -Pu single crystal of  Determination of multi-configurational ground 242 PuCoGa 5 states in α & δ -Pu  X-ray Emission (XES) under pressure single crystal of shows 6d/5f hybridization d -Pu  Observed Fermi surface pocket in PuIn 3 d -Pu single crystals 1 mm  Discovery of Superconductivity in PuCoIn 5 and PuRhIn 5  Full elastic tensor of 242 PuCoGa 5 via Resonant Eric Bauer Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 12 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

Los Alamos has a distinguished 70-year supercomputing history Fidelity at scale: Data- informed, “adaptive - physics,” multi- scale simulation tools essential for “complex systems” Examples : E NERGY -C LIMATE B IOLOGICAL I MPACTS M ACHINES Climate Models : Atmosphere, Ocean, Land, Ice M ATERIALS UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 13 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA

The future of Materials Science: Control science via integration Control Science  Accelerated materials discovery and design Integration  Key to prediction of material properties  Theory and models that take “CO - DESIGN” function to structure  Synthetic control of defects and interfaces  Characterization of the evolution of defects and interfaces in multiple extremes to provide feedback UNCLASSIFIED March 10, 2015 | 14 Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA