The Tri-Valley’s national laboratories, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore, are a key part of the region’s history and the development of its innovation economy. They also contribute to the high density of master’s degree and PhD holders in the region.
The national labs have been researching and developing cutting edge innovations since World War II, when they were commissioned by the U.S. Government to study nuclear energy and weapons for the Allied war effort. The need for research of that kind has never gone away, and the labs have been doing studies for various branches of the government ever since.
Image: On Dec. 7, 1962, President Kennedy made a tour of Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES
