Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC)
In August 2009 it was announced that a joint venture known as the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) would be created between Sandia National Laboratories/California campus and LLNL to promote collaboration between the scientists at these labs and their counterparts in industry and academia. It was intended that open access to the campus wpuld directly support the advancement of innovation and research, increase the profile of the labs in the region, expand the high-tech “footprint” of the San Francisco Bay Area and establish the Livermore Valley as the high-tech anchor of the East Bay of San Francisco.
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