Los Alamos National Laboratory’s FY25 economic impact report shows nearly $3 billion in salaries, taxes and procurement spending in New Mexico, highlighting job growth, small business contracts and the lab’s expanding national security mission.
LOS ALAMOS — The federal research site that developed the world’s first atomic bomb continues to have a profound economic impact on northern New Mexico more than eight decades after its famed inaugural director, J. Robert Oppenheimer, retired.
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Source: Albuquerque Journal | Published: 2026-01-30T01:03:00Z
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