Global Security Input for Director's All Employee Meeting
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External Review Committee Report, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate 2018
The committee was charged with reviewing the health of the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division (NACS) and its impact on LLNL and national security. Overarching observations and recommendations are given here, with detailed comments in the body of the report. NACS was formed in 2014 with the goal of growing a coordinated nuclear physics and chemistry portfolio. Evidence from the talks, posters, tour, and discussions with employees indicated that the division is performing remarkably well. The basis for this comes from world-class science coupled with programmatic needs, the ability to hire and retain the best and the brightest, and a work force with high morale. The planning exercises and production of strategic vision documents to achieve these goals is particularly impressive. The directorate and division management should be congratulated.
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Need something worthwhile to read and watch? The Lab’s classified library director, senior historian’s offer recommendations
Social distancing has many of us turning even more to our streaming services and e-bookshelves in our free time. But if you’re looking for something even more compelling than Tiger King, staff from the National Security Research Center (the Lab’s classified library) have some recommendations for you. NSRC Director Riz Ali and Senior Historian Alan Carr share their top picks of books and movies on Los Alamos and atomic bomb history.
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Nuclear Fundamentals Orientation Module 1: Weapons Production Directorate Overview [Slides]
The presentation topics are: Associate Laboratory Directorate for Weapons Production (ALDWP) Overview; Plutonium Center and Science; Detonators; and, ALDWP Today.
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Listen: Oppenheimer’s office chair one of the only possessions the lab has from our first director
Even the father of the atomic bomb had to sit down somewhere. It's hard to believe that our legendary first Lab director and brilliant physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer did something as ordinary as using a chair at work like the rest of us do. However, aside from a recently gifted book, this chair from the 1940s is the only Oppenheimer possession that the Lab has. And Oppie fans love it. The chair is routinely loaned to museums nationwide for display.
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The Associate Laboratory Directorate of Weapons Production
The one page description of the Directorate of Weapons Production is aimed at recruiting.
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LANL Weapons Physics Directorate: Mission Scope and Opportunities [Slides]
The Weapons Physics Directorate stewards a number of critical capabilities to meet the LANL mission. To execute our mission, ALDX develops and applies cutting-edge theory, computational models and multi-physics simulation codes, and designs, executes, and analyzes complex experiments. Our mission is to sustain the current stockpile, provide future stockpile options, and help shape a globalized nuclear world.
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‘Spokesperson for everyone at the Laboratory who believed in Oppenheimer’ Los Alamos physicist Fred Ribe’s 1954 petition protested former Lab Director’s revoked clearance
In 1953, J. Robert Oppenheimer received an ultimatum. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) sent the "father of the atomic bomb" and former Los Alamos Director a letter outlining two options: give up his Q clearance and role as advisor or appear before a board to prove that he wasn’t a threat to national security. Oppenheimer chose the latter. The ensuing saga that unfolded throughout 1954 peaked with a four-week, closed-door hearing in April and May after which Oppenheimer’s security clearance was formally revoked. The long, complex affair consisted of national security concerns, a tangle of questionable charges, divided opinions, loyalties, egos, and vendettas. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss and Oppenheimer were at the center of events, though an important part of the historical record is Fred L. Ribe and the 493 other Los Alamos scientists who risked harming their careers to protest Oppenheimer’s ordeal. Ribe wrote a one-page letter, signed by his colleagues, to President Dwight Eisenhower and the AEC commissioners “objecting the decision and the grounds for it” as Ribe later wrote. This petition – and Strauss’s written response – were donated by Ribe and are part of the unclassified historical collections in the National Security Research Center, which is the Lab’s classified library.
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Former Director Sig Hecker to present classified colloquium on the end of nuclear testing
Hecker is a professor emeritus (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and a senior fellow emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. He served as the Lab’s fifth director from 1986 to 1997 and is a Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal recipient. He is an internationally recognized expert in plutonium science, global threat reduction and nuclear security with wide research interests covering nuclear weapons policy, nuclear security, and the safe and secure expansion of nuclear energy.
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Weapons Engineering Directorate (ALDW) Overview [Slides]
The "Weapons Engineering Directorate (ALDW) Overview" is a presentation for recruiting purposes to be delivered at various colleges, universities, conferences, and professional organizations. The presentation provides prospective applicants with information about LANL, ALDW, and employee benefits.
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Start your career at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Associate Laboratory Directorate for Weapons Production [Slides]
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is the place for early-career professionals to join our crucial mission in support of national security. In the Associate Laboratory Directorate for Weapons Production (ALDWP) you will find a diverse workplace with roles of all kinds and endless upward momentum for a long-lasting and ever-changing career!
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's Strategic Resilience Initiative
The Director’s Strategic Resilience Initiative was created late in 2019 in recognition of the changing geo-political climate. The renewed strategic competition between Russia, China, and the United States, noted in the 2018 National Defense Strategy and the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, put great power rivalry and competition at the forefront of national security considerations. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s March 1, 2018, speech and China’s October 1, 2019, National Day Military Parade, underscored the nuclear dimensions of this new strategic competition. Accompanying this changed strategic environment are rapid advances in an expansive array of relevant technological sectors including affordable and comprehensive global communication and reconnaissance assets, autonomous vehicles, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, and artificial intelligence.
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Evaluation of a VTOL flight-director concept during constant-speed instrument approaches
Evaluation of VTOL flight-director concept during constant-speed instrument approaches
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A pilot-vehicle systems approach to longitudinal flight director design
Pilot/vehicle feedback systems with flight director computer for transport aircraft longitudinal control during landing, discussing design by manual control displays theory
Klein, R. H.↗
Principles for the design of advanced flight director systems based on the theory of manual control displays
Design and development of flight director systems based on theory of manual control displays
Klein, R. H.↗
Pilot dynamics for instrument approach tasks: Full panel multiloop and flight director operations
Measurements and interpretations of single and mutiloop pilot response properties during simulated instrument approach are presented. Pilot subjects flew Category 2-like ILS approaches in a fixed base DC-8 simulaton. A conventional instrument panel and controls were used, with simulated vertical gust and glide slope beam bend forcing functions. Reduced and interpreted pilot describing functions and remmant are given for pitch attitude, flight director, and multiloop (longitudinal) control tasks. The response data are correlated with simultaneously recorded eye scanning statistics, previously reported in NASA CR-1535. The resulting combined response and scanning data and their interpretations provide a basis for validating and extending the theory of manual control displays.
Weir, D. H.↗
Analytical design and simulation evaluation of an approach flight director system for a jet STOL aircraft
A program was undertaken to develop design criteria and operational procedures for STOL transport aircraft. As part of that program, a series of flight tests shall be performed in an Augmentor Wing Jet STOL Aircraft. In preparation for the flight test programs, an analytical study was conducted to gain an understanding of the characteristics of the vehicle for manual control, to assess the relative merits of the variety of manual control techniques available with attitude and thrust vector controllers, and to determine what improvements can be made over manual control of the bare airframe by providing the pilot with suitable command guidance information and by augmentation of the bare airframe dynamics. The objective of the study is to apply closed-loop pilot/vehicle analysis techniques to the analysis of manual flight control of powered-lift STOL aircraft in the landing approach and to the design and experimental verification of an advanced flight director display.
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Development of an integrated configuration management/flight director system for piloted STOL approaches
A system analysis method for the development of an integrated configuration management/flight director system for IFR STOL approaches is presented. Curved descending decelerating approach trajectories are considered. Considerable emphasis is placed on satisfying the pilot centered requirements (acceptable workload) as well as the usual guidance and control requirements (acceptable performance). The Augmentor Wing Jet STOL Research Aircraft was utilized to allow illustration by example, and to validate the analysis procedure via manned simulation.
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