PNNL Business Facts
Fiscal Year 2006 Business Statistics
Business Volume and Customers
Our business volume was $750 million. Customers included the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal, state and local agencies; universities; and industry sponsors.
Awards
PNNL received five R&D 100 Awards in FY 2006, for a total of 71; and four Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards for technology transfer, for a total of 62.
PNNL has won a total of 62 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards for technology transfer.
PNNL staff have also been recognized with the following:
- 6 EO Lawrence Awards
- 1 Coblentz Award
- 4 Discover Magazine Awards
- 2 PECASE (Presidential Early Career award for Scientists and Engineers) Awards.
For additional staff awards, see our Awards and Honors Archive page.
Patents
In fiscal year 2006, PNNL received 58 U.S. and 68 foreign patents. Since 1965, PNNL has received a total of 1,466 U.S. and foreign patents.
Employment, Payroll and Taxes
Staff employment at the end of FY 2006 was 4,309. The gross payroll for the year was approximately $327 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:- $2.8 million in business and occupation taxes
- $943,000 in sales and use taxes
- $1.140 million in property and leasehold taxes.
Purchased Goods and Services
PNNL purchased goods and services totaling more than $256 million.
Economic Development
PNNL's economic development programs helped more than 60 technology businesses develop products, acquire new customers and contracts, get access to funding sources and strategic partners, and secure specialized facilities and staff. PNNL and its partners also established the Tri-City Alumni Program to attract the resources of successful former Tri-Citians back to the community. PNNL’s Economic Development Office manager received the 2006 Sam Volpentest Entrepreneurial Leadership Award [PDF, 22.5 KB], and the web site received an international Award of Excellence from the International Economic Development Council.
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