Editing Sandia Base (section)

==Sandia National Laboratories==
After the move to Sandia Base, Los Alamos Laboratory's Z Division grew to almost 500 people, and became a separate branch of Los Alamos on April 1, 1948. Named [[Sandia National Laboratories|Sandia Laboratory]], the organization continued to grow to approximately 1000 employees by mid-1948.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}}

The [[University of California]], long-time manager of Los Alamos, indicated that it no longer desired to be involved in the engineering part of nuclear weapons development. Thus, in 1949, [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]]'s manufacturing arm, [[Western Electric]], accepted the management role on a no-profit, no-fee basis. Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, was formed to manage the lab.  AT&T maintained the contract until 1993 when [[Martin Marietta]] (now [[Lockheed Martin]]) took over. The largest organization at Sandia Base, it became [[Sandia National Laboratories]] in 1979.  It now operates facilities in Albuquerque and [[Livermore, California]]. The organization continues to expand into new areas of research, such as renewable energy sources.