SANTA FE, N.M., July 27 (UPI) -- The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has contracted Sigma Labs, Inc. to assist with manufacturing technology in the nuclear environment.
Sigma said the contract is to perform certain machine tool upgrades to the Advanced Recovery and Integrated Extraction System.
Sigma Labs said it expects the contract to generate up to $300,000 in revenues.
"ARIES integrates the technologies needed to remove plutonium from the cores of surplus nuclear weapons and converts it into an unclassified form for international inspection," said Sigma Labs President Mark Cola. "This technology enables the U.S. to meet treaty obligations and furthers efforts to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation."
Sigma Labs comprises leading scientists and engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory with more than 75 years of combined industrial research-and-development experience.
The company has become a developer of manufacturing and materials technologies and an important R&D provider to first-tier integrators, including Boeing, Honeywell and Pratt and Whitney, as well as to commercial firms within the United States and internationally.
