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Sen. Heinrich Visits High Tech Startup Descartes Labs

Gathered for a tour of Descartes Labs Thursday in the former Smart House at 1925 Trinity Dr., from left, Los Alamos County Manager Harry Burgess, Descartes Labs co-founder and CTO Steven Brumby, Sen. Martin Heinrich, Council Vice Chair Susan O’Leary and Los Alamos County Utilities Manager Tim Glasco. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Sen. Martin Heinrich, center, during Thursday’s tour of Descartes Labs, formerly the Smart House, a 3,000 square-foot building abutting Los Alamos Canyon in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Visits Los Alamos Daily Post

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post newspaper this afternoon following visits to Descartes Labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Cottonwood on the Greens at the Golf Course and the Democratic Campaign Headquarters in Central Park Square. Heinrich visited the newspaper in 2013 to congratulate the news team on its small business of the year award. The senator commented during his visit today that the Los Alamos Daily Post is on his daily read list and keeps him current on the events happenings throughout the community. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

NNSA Extends LANL Management Contract

LANL News:

Director Charlie McMillan announced Wednesday during an all-employee meeting that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has agreed to extend the contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory by one year.

In a memo that went out to employees following the meeting, McMillan shared NNSA’s official communication about the contract extension to stakeholders, which notes that “NNSA has determined to grant Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) a final Award Term for performance in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, extending the period of performance through FY 2018. No Read More

LAMS’s Lillian Petersen Takes 3rd In 2016 Supercomputing Challenge

Lillian Petersen explains her Supercomputing Challenge project, ‘Detecting Climate Change Through Means and Extremes’ to Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

Los Alamos Middle School student Lillian Petersen won third place for her project, “Detecting Climate Change Through Means and Extremes.”

Petersen’s study aggregated data from thousands of weather stations around the world, which she processed and analyzed with a Python program she wrote to find overall changes and trends in climate around the world. She also won the Community Read More

DOE Announces $25 Million To Accelerate Integration Of Solar Energy Into Nation’s Electrical Grid

DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of the Energy Department’s ongoing efforts to modernize the nation’s grid through the Grid Modernization Initiative, the Energy Department announced $25 million in available funding through an effort called Enabling Extreme Real-Time Grid Integration of Solar Energy (ENERGISE) to help software developers, solar companies, and utilities accelerate the integration of solar energy into the grid.
 
Since President Obama took office, the amount of solar power installed in the U.S. has increased 23-fold—from 1.2 gigawatts
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‘Solving The Rubik’s Cube 2.0’ Includes 3D Simulation

Some of the finalist teams pose with a finalist team banner. The two boys at left in front row are Nicholas Brown, left, and Christopher Leap, of Portales High School. They finished second place. Courtesy photo
 
LANL News:
 
Andy Corliss, Phillip Ionkov and Ming Lo of Aspen Elementary, and Max Corliss of Los Alamos Middle School won first place in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge for their project, “Solving the Rubik’s Cube 2.0,” Tuesday at Los Alamos National Laboratory. They created a three-dimensional simulation of a Rubik’s cube, as well as an implementation of a cube-solving
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LANL Puts Out Big ‘Help Wanted’ Notice

LANL Director Charlie McMillan at Tuesday’s Community Leaders Update in Santa Fe talks about reshaping the workforce of the future. Courtesy photo

NNSA Field Office Manager Kim Davis Lebak touts the virtues of a steady budget. Courtesy photo

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

An aging workforce and natural attrition, more than budget growth, are pushing Los Alamos National Laboratory toward a hiring spree. The lab will be looking for scientists and engineers as always, but also for business services professionals, support staff, as well as craft and technical employees.

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