ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Labs director Paul Hommert will re-dedicate Sandia’s Weapons Integration Facility (building 898) as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center at a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 18, at the southeast corner of Sandia National Laboratories’ MESA complex on Kirtland Air Force Base.
Sen. Domenici will be joined by Congressmen Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Steve Pearce (R-NM), and by Don Cook, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs. N.M. Gov. Susana Martinez will also attend.
Media are welcome at the dedication ceremony on Friday, February 18 from 10:30 -11:30 a.m. Media must contact Iris Aboytes at 844-2282 prior to 8:00 a.m. on Friday, February 18, to arrange for badging and escort.
The Center houses approximately 350 Sandia staff, mostly working on weapon subsystem engineering and modeling and simulation or engineering sciences.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.
Sandia media relations contact: Stephanie Holinka, slholin@sandia.gov (505) 284-9227