A Los Alamos field crew member from LATA uses a hand auger to collect environmental samples in northern New Mexico. Courtesy/LATA

By Carol A. Clark

A Los Alamos Company stood out among New Mexico’s top high-tech companies recognized last week for their achievements by New Mexico Flying 40, which annually honors the state’s fastest-growing companies.

Los Alamos Technical Associates (LATA), 999 Central Ave., led the list of Top 10 revenue companies for the second consecutive year.

LATA is a technical project management services company with total revenues of $237.8 million in 2011, which represents a nearly 186 percent, or $154.6 million increase in revenue since 2007.

LATA also was honored at the June 21 recognition event, at the University of New Mexico’s indoor football practice facility, with the Flying 40 for having the highest revenue growth in dollars for all companies for the second straight year.

“As a New Mexico company that performs work throughout the United States and internationally, we are very pleased to be recognized in our home state and are proud that we have maintained our home office in Los Alamos for the past 36 years,” said Executive Vice President Dan Carlson, from LATA’s Los Alamos office.

In its 15th year, the Flying 40 awards recognize companies in the following categories:

• Top 10 revenues; and, based on performance from 2007 to 2011;
• Highest revenue growth in dollars for all companies;
• Highest percentage revenue growth for all companies;
• Top growth for revenues for companies with revenues more than $10 million; and
• Top growth for revenues for companies with revenues less than $10 million.

Flying 40 companies accounted for 4,451 jobs in 2011 with total revenues of more than $902 million.

Founded in New Mexico in 1976, LATA provides technical and project management services to a varied clientele including federal agencies, state governments, municipalities, and a broad range of private sector industrial clients.

In the 1970s, the company’s core business focused on the design, installation and operation of highly specialized systems and processes for Special Nuclear Materials handling.

LATA expanded throughout the 1980s into communication systems design and test for defense applications.

In the early 1990s, the company expanded into the environmental services arena, performing some of the most challenging Superfund site remediation efforts in the country as well as some of the most challenging site and facility closure projects in the nation’s Nuclear Weapons Complex.

To read more about this year’s Flying 40 awards, visit

A Los Alamos Company stood out among New Mexico’s top high-tech companies recognized last week for their achievements by New Mexico Flying 40, which annually honors the state’s fastest-growing companies.

Los Alamos Technical Associates (LATA), 999 Central Ave., led the list of Top 10 revenue companies for the second consecutive year.

LATA is a technical project management services company with total revenues of $237.8 million in 2011, which represents a nearly 186 percent, or $154.6 million increase in revenue since 2007.

LATA also was honored at the June 21 recognition event, at the University of New Mexico’s indoor football practice facility, with the Flying 40 for having the highest revenue growth in dollars for all companies for the second straight year.

“As a New Mexico company that performs work throughout the United States and internationally, we are very pleased to be recognized in our home state and are proud that we have maintained our home office in Los Alamos for the past 36 years,” said Executive Vice President Dan Carlson, from LATA’s Los Alamos office.

In its 15th year, the Flying 40 awards recognizes companies in the following categories:

• Top 10 revenues; and, based on performance from 2007 to 2011;
• Highest revenue growth in dollars for all companies;
• Highest percentage revenue growth for all companies;
• Top growth for revenues for companies with revenues more than $10 million; and
• Top growth for revenues for companies with revenues less than $10 million.

Flying 40 companies accounted for 4,451 New Mexico jobs in 2011 with total revenues of more than $902 million.

Founded in New Mexico in 1976, LATA provides technical and project management services to a varied clientele including federal agencies, state governments, municipalities, and a broad range of private sector industrial clients.

In the 1970s, the company’s core business focused on the design, installation and operation of highly specialized systems and processes for Special Nuclear Materials handling.

LATA expanded throughout the 1980s into communication systems design and test for defense applications.

In the early 1990s, the company expanded into the environmental services arena, performing some of the most challenging Superfund site remediation efforts in the country as well as some of the most challenging site and facility closure projects in the nation’s Nuclear Weapons Complex.

To read more about this year’s Flying 40 awards, visit http://techventures.org/events/flying-40/

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