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ROSWELL, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be in Carlsbad tomorrow, Wednesday, October 19, to host a small business workshop to provide information about supply subcontracting with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and to meet with local veterans for a roundtable discussion. In the morning, Senator Heinrich will host a small...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that they have asked Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to consider opening a “Defense Innovation Unit Experimental" (DIUx) office in New Mexico as part of the military's mission to widen the technology gap between the United States and its adversaries. DIUx offices...

SANTA FE, N.M. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján (N.M.-03) announced that UbiQD, LLC, a New Mexico-based quantum dot manufacturer, was awarded a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The 12-month...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján (N.M.-03) are urging the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to strongly consider maximizing contract opportunities for New Mexico local businesses, and focusing on staff recruitment and retention, as it undergoes the process...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with researchers in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center and was briefed on their work to combat the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne infectious diseases.  "Zika is a public health emergency that requires a real...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted for the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed the Senate by a vote of 85 to 13. Senator Heinrich secured key provisions in the legislation to benefit New Mexico's men and women in uniform,...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - As the Los Alamos National Laboratory faces thousands of job openings over the next five years New Mexico's community colleges are looking at how they can prepare their students for those jobs. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that representatives from the lab and community college presidents met in Santa Fe with...

Millennials were on the menu Wednesday, as administrators from seven Northern New Mexico colleges and universities met with community and human resources officials from Los Alamos National Laboratory to digest the implications of a generational shift that is affecting much of the country. Members of the Millennial Generation (a cohort of the...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D–N.M.) wants to boost New Mexicans’ chances of filling approximately 2,000 vacancies at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the next five years. To facilitate that goal, Heinrich gathered representatives from LANL and seven northern New Mexico colleges for a roundtable on Wednesday to discuss ways to tailor...

SANTA FE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, convened a roundtable today with university and college presidents and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) representatives in Santa Fe to discuss increasing job training opportunities for positions at LANL. One third of LANL's...

Heinrich To Convene Roundtable On LANL Workforce Training With University And College Presidents SANTA FE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will convene a roundtable on Wednesday, June 1, at 10:30 a.m. with university and college presidents and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) representatives in Santa Fe to discuss ways to increase...

In a phone interview with the Los Alamos Monitor Tuesday, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) discussed some recent successes in the Senate that could have both direct and indirect benefits for Los Alamos. The fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has several gains for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), including an increase in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined the Senate in a 90-8 vote to pass the fiscal year 2017 funding bill for Los Alamos and Sandia national labs, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and several New Mexico water projects. The Energy and Water Appropriations Act is critical for New Mexico and supports...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (N.M.-03) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.-01) are urging National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Lt. General Frank G. Klotz, USAF (Ret.) to strongly consider the benefits of using New Mexico local...

SANTA FE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to Los Alamos on Thursday, May 5, to highlight technology transfer between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and private industry, and also meet with LANL's historian. On Thursday morning, Senator Heinrich will tour the start-up tech company Descartes Labs. The company uses...

In the past 55 years, the U.S. has spent more than $6 billion researching how to apply “focused energy technologies” — which include lasers, microwaves and electromagnetic radiation — for use in military weapons, an enterprise that has been growing in New Mexico. Last month, programs to develop directed-energy weapons at...

(PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich speaks at the Raytheon Ktech facility in Albuquerque, March 23, 2016) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced a $10 million investment in directed energy development in New Mexico.  A $4.8 million award from the U.S Air...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the Economic Development Administration (EDA) will invest $368,760 in New Mexico State University's Next Generation Entrepreneurship (Next Gen) project. The funding will allow NMSU to enhance entrepreneurship programming at its main campus and extend it to the four...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the following response to today's statement by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson on the final phase of REAL ID implementation: "In December, we convened a meeting with DHS officials...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has informed them that the state of New Mexico can still get an extension of the deadline for REAL ID enforcement if Gov. Susana Martinez and...