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Fiscal Year 2005 Business Statistics

Business Volume and Customers

Our business volume was $725 million. Customers included the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal, state and local agencies; universities; and industry sponsors.

Awards

PNNL received four R&D 100 Awards in FY 2004 and one R&D 100 Award in FY 2005, including an editor's choice award, for a total of 67.

PNNL has won a total of 62 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards for technology transfer.

PNNL has also won:

  • 5 EO Lawrence Awards
  • 1 Coblentz Award
  • 4 Discover Magazine Awards.

Patents

In fiscal year 2005, PNNL received 53 U.S. and 83 foreign patents. Since 1965, PNNL has received a total of 1,383 U.S. and foreign patents.

Employment, Payroll and Taxes

Staff employment at the end of FY 2005 was 4,214. The gross payroll for the year was approximately $327.0 million. Employer-paid benefits totaled $82.3 million and various state and federal payroll taxes paid by the Laboratory amounted to more than $25 million.

The Laboratory also paid:
  • $2.327 million in business and occupation taxes
  • $649,000 in sales and use taxes
  • $1.205 million in property and leasehold taxes.

Purchased Goods and Services

PNNL purchased goods and services totaling more than $290 million.

Economic Development

PNNL's economic development programs helped more than 50 technology businesses develop products, acquire new customers and contracts, get access to funding sources and strategic partners, and secure specialized facilities and staff. The U.S. Department of Commerce selected PNNL as a national model of technology-based economic development among 300 federal laboratories.

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