2026 New Mexico Federal Business Opportunities Forum Presentations

DOE National Weapons Laboratories Strategic Vision and Business Engagement

• Dr. Thom Mason, Laboratory Director, Triad National Security (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Dan Sinars, Director, Chief Research Officer, National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Carolyn Zerkle, Principal Deputy Director, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

NNSA Update

• Chelsea Murphy, DOE/NNSA Small Business Program Manager, Office of Partnership and Acquisition Services (NA-PAS-1.2)

Panel 1 – Procurement Programs and Opportunities at National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sites

• Deb Lewis, Project Program Director, Office of Program Planning and Oversight, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Zach Mikelson, Small Business Program Manager, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
• M’balia Tagoe, Director, Project Planning and Delivery Directorate, Infrastructure Senior Directorate, Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS)

FEATURED SITE: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

• Mission Support Infrastructure Modernization, Capital Projects, Transition and Disposition: Mark Costella, Program Manager – Presentation 1 / Presentation 2
• Supply Chain: Jon Benjamin, Small Business Program Manager

Panel 2 – Business Support Programs in New Mexico

• Joshua Baca, SBA Business Opportunity Specialist, Small Business Administration New Mexico District Office
  
• Stephanie Parra, Deputy, Office of Small Business Program, US Army Corps of Engineers
• Julianna Barbee, SBDC Director NNMC, New Mexico Small Business Development Center
• Elythia McAnarney, Advisor, New Mexico APEX Accelerator

Panel 3 – Business Opportunities at Pantex and WIPP

• Randy Crawford, Small Business Program Manager, PanTeXas Deterrence, LLC
• George Garcia, Small Business Manager and Bobby Gaffney, Supply Chain and MCP Procurement Manager, Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, LLC, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Artificial Intelligence in Business Development

• Brian Martinez, Chief Information Officer, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Building Partnerships:
Subcontracting Opportunities with LANL and Their Primes