PHILADELPHIA, June 14 (UPI) -- A division of Pennsylvania's CDI Corp. will provide engineering services to the Lawrence Livermore National Lab National Ignition Facility for five years.
Under the agreement with Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC, the services will be provided across a wide variety of disciplines for the laboratory's National Ignition and Photon Science Directorate.
The goal of the National Ignition Facility is to create nuclear fusion and energy gain for the first time in a lab. Achieving this milestone would allow scientists to help ensure the country's safety without nuclear weapons testing, define energy for the future by utilizing fusion power plants and gain a better understanding of the universe.
"CDI-Aerospace has supported the NIF's developmental phase of ignition experiments and we look forward to supporting the NIF into the future as it performs tests crucial to achieving this self-sustaining nuclear fusion and energy gain," said Denny Vito, executive vice president and general manager of CDI-Aerospace.
CDI-Aerospace's Phoenix Design Center will serve as the program center, the company said.
