[Jim Sims]

Bernie, I personally mostly work on the mechanical engineering aspects of magnets and electromagnetic devices. My team and group does diverse mechanical engineering work: NASA space probes, apparatus for testing materials in radioactive environments; fission reactors for space power, hardware for particle accelerators (for materials and physics research plus medical isotope production), devices and hardware for contained glovebox work, hardware supporting high temperature superconducting research, electromagnetic launchers and numerous other areas. Los Alamos is a "company town" and most but not all technical work here relates to the "Lab". There are small startup companies but all of them combined only amount to a few percent of the "Lab" in terms of budget and people. We are currently in a hiring freeze as the Laboratory sorts out what to do about declining nuclear weapons budgets.