Sandia National Labs FY20 LDRD Annual Report

FY20 ANNUAL REPORT

LDRD PROGRAM VALUE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

While the FY 2020 LDRD program represented only about 5.4% of Sandia’s total lab costs, the metrics shown below highlight how LDRD has a much larger relative impact on key performance indicators and metrics for the lab. The bar graph demonstrates the large percentage of early career staff, postdocs and students engaged in the LDRD program, validating the important role LDRD plays in attracting, developing, and retaining a world-class workforce to meet our most challenging national security needs.

FY 2020 LDRD Program Statistics

$188.9M Total Program Cost

$354K Median Project Size

447 Total LDRD Projects

257 New Projects in FY20

(not including PM costs)

LDRD Participants

Postdocs 163

LDRD-Supported

46% of Sandia total 53% of Sandia total

LDRD-Supported Postdoc to Staff

Conversions 25

Refereed Publications 366 26% of Sandia total Technical Advances 121 37% of Sandia total Patents Issued 67 51% of Sandia total Copyrights 40 24% of Sandia total R&D 100 Awards 4 57% of Sandia total

...the large percentage of early career staff, postdocs and students engaged in the LDRD program...

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