Glovia Customer Awarded The Project Management Institute's 2010 Project of the Year award
2010 Glovia Announcements
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November 2010 - The National Ignition Facility (NIF), located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been awarded the internationally prestigious 2010 Project of the Year award by The Project Management Institute. Other finalists include the monumental Cowboys Stadium, the NFL's superstructure in Dallas, and the Norton Brownsboro Hospital.
Funded by the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the NIF was dedicated in May 2009, and is the world's largest and highest-energy laser. It is able to focus 192 beams on a capsule the size of a pencil eraser, which contains hydrogen isotopes. The capsule is heated to temperatures higher than the sun's center which fuses the hydrogen atom nuclei and produces more energy than the energy from the laser energy needed to complete the reaction. Demonstrating ignition at NIF would also provide the basis for the development of fusion energy, as well as further expanding frontiers in all the science fields.
Through the 2010 Project of the Year Award, NIF was honored as a facility pushing the boundaries, managing collaborative teams of scientists, engineers, vendors, construction workers, and contractors among others, to carry to completion this $3.5 billion project. Noted for its technological breakthroughs, NIF scientists dramatically improved the manufacturing of precision large optics (powered by Glovia), developed innovative integrated computer control systems with two million lines of code, and greatly advanced manufacturing capabilities (powered by Glovia).
Glovia International Inc., has proudly held LLNL as a customer since 1997 when NIF first broke ground for this 12 year project, and continue to support the growth and success of LLNL.
For more information on:
NIF at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - https://lasers.llnl.gov/