Sandia Labs FY21 LDRD Annual Report

FY21 ANNUAL REPORT

Project Highlights - Workforce Development Sandia’s LDRD program enables principal investigators and research teams to collaborate with other national laboratories, academic institutions, and industry partners to revolutionize what is possible in science and engineering. This not only develops Sandia’s workforce, but it also grows the nation’s technical research capabilities overall, and even contributes to the economy. The highlights in this section are only a small subset of the impacts that have been made in 2021 through LDRD, but they give a glimpse of how significant the program is to the country and to the world.

This map highlights the geographical areas of Sandia’s academic (111), government (29), and industry (46) LDRD collaborators during the 2021 fiscal year. The size of the circles corresponds directly to the number of collaborators of that particular type in a location.

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LABORATORY DIRECTED RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT