Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories, also known as Sandia, is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. It is headquartered at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a second principal facility next to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, and a test facility in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii. It is a multimission laboratory whose primary goal is advancing United States national security through science-based technologies, and it is owned by the federal government but privately managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, a subsidiary of Honeywell International.