A precision diagnostic developed at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories is emerging as a gold standard for detecting and describing problems inside quantum computing hardware.
Entergy’s new power plant was supposed to help New Orleans East recover after a storm like Hurricane Ida. When it didn’t, residents started pushing for cleaner, safer energy.
Military bases: Kirtland Air Force Base
Military population: 3,300 troops, 5,300 civilian employees and contractors
Percent of adult population with a bachelor’s degree: 34%
Pluses: Albuquerque has military space missions at Kirtland, including the rapid fielding office for satellites and part of the military’s space research arm. Albuquerque also has an outsized population of scientists thanks to the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, which focus on nuclear energy and atomic weapons.
Minuses: While Kirtland has a space mission, it’s not a big one and the population of space experts there is relatively small. It would also require a major infrastructure investment and lacks direct connectivity to the biggest missions for the new command.