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This Memorial recognizes the significant contributions of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a national research facility, in responding to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It highlights LANL's rapid innovation and application of its science, technology, and engineering capabilities to address the crisis, including modeling infection data, analyzing mobility and mutation data of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, forecasting emerging variants, predicting hospital usage, evaluating mitigation efforts, and providing publicly available data. The memorial also notes that LANL invested over $24 million in fiscal years 2020 and 2021 for pandemic response, with a substantial portion dedicated to research and development, testing, and technology evaluation, and acknowledges the formation of a special office within LANL to coordinate these vital efforts.