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CLAIRE LISSAMAN , HEAD OF OXFAM ADVISORY SERVICES
Los Alamos National Laboratory main campus
I n one of the most secluded places on Earth , in the high desert near Santa Fe in New Mexico , 10,000 people work in one of the most cutting-edge facilities in the world – one that , as part of the Manhattan Project in World War II , was instrumental in developing the first ever atomic bomb . The Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL ) is one of 16 R & D laboratories run under contract by the US Department of Energy .
“ We ' re known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb ,” says Christine Hipp , Acquisition Services Management Center of Excellence Leader at LANL . “ A lot of people don ' t realise we still exist .”
Today , LANL undertakes R & D on everything from the COVID-19 vaccine to genome sequencing , but retains a strong nuclear function , too , having stewardship of the US nuclear weapons programme .
LANL procurement ‘ quite unlike other organisations ’ The super-sensitive nature of its work means procurement processes at LANL are , to say the least , quite unlike those of most businesses . I interviewed Hipp in Dallas at SAP Spend Connect Live – a conference and expo where SAP unveiled updated versions of its spend management solutions to highly-regulated US industries such as
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