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Math skill put Sandia Labs HENAAC honoree on the path to success

October 2, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Edward Jimenez, a Sandia National Laboratories applied mathematician, was named a 2014 HENAAC Award winner as Most Promising Engineer/Advanced Degree by Great Minds in STEM. He joins other honorees at the 26th annual HENAAC conference in New Orleans from Oct. 2-4. HENAAC, formerly the Hispanic Engineering National...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: applied mathematics, awards, diversity, education, Great Minds in STEM, HENAAC, math, minorities, national laboratories, national labs, STEM

Fuel cell-powered mobile lights tested, proven, ready for commercial use

September 30, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Mobile lighting systems powered by hydrogen fuel cells are cleaner, quieter and now have a proven track record in applications such as nighttime construction, sports and entertainment events and airport operations, making them ready for commercializatio…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

In-flight sensor tests a step toward Structural Health Monitoring for safer flights

September 29, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nine commercial aircraft flying regular routes are on the frontier of aviation safety, carrying sensors that monitor their structural health along with their routine maintenance. These flight tests are part of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification process that will make the sensors widely available to U.S....

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: air travel safety, airlines, aviation, aviation safety, Boeing, Delta Air Lines, FAA, NDI, nondestructive inspection, SHM, structural health monitoring

Sandia researchers find clues to superbug evolution

September 23, 2014 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories' researchers Kelly Williams, left, and Corey Hudson look at the mosaic pattern of one of the Klebsiella pneumoniae plasmids and discuss mechanisms that mobilize resistance genes. (Photo by Dino Vourn…

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: antibiotic resistance, bacteria, drug-resistant, genetics, genome sequencing, microbiology, pneumonia

Sandia magnetized fusion technique produces significant results

September 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The experimental work is described in a paper to be published in the Sept. 24 Physical Review Letters online. A...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: deuterium, fusion, laser, magLIF, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, Physical Review Letters, tritium, Z, z machine

Sandia pioneers software for smart and sustainable institutions

September 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Institutional Transformation (IX) model helps the federal laboratory reduce its energy consumption and could help other large institutions do the same. The IX model allows planners to experiment with energy conservation measures, such as adding cool roofs or replacing old heating, ventilation and air...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

American-made wind turbine blades

September 17, 2014, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is helping makers of wind turbine blades improve the labor productivity associated with blade fabrication and finishing. This improved productivity makes domestic blades more cost competitive with blades from countries that pay workers lower wages. The Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (AMII), a three-year $6.3...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: American Energy @ Manufacturing Competitiveness Summit, AMII, NDI, wind turbine blade design

Showcase to spur commercialization of Sandia technologies

September 16, 2014, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A showcase that brought Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology to the community the past two years has a new look and target audience. Instead of an annual daylong gathering open to the public, the re-envisioned Sandia Technology Showcase will become a yearlong series of events...

Categories: Media advisories, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, economic development, economic impact, entrepreneurs, intellectual property, investors, IP, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology

Carbon sequestration research continues at Sandia Labs under Energy Department funds

September 15, 2014 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] The Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security, a project between Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Texas, Austin, the lead partner, studies the long-term geologic sequestration of carbon. (Graphic court…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: caprock, carbon sequestration, CO2, Department of Energy, DOE, Energy Frontier Research Center, greenhouse gas, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia cyber-testing contributes to DHS Transition to Practice

September 10, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Through the Department of Homeland Security’s Transition to Practice (TTP) program, cybersecurity technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories — and at other federal labs — now stand a better chance of finding their way into the real wor…

Categories: Cybersecurity

Topics: cyber security, cybersecurity, DHS, DoD, licensing, malware, national laboratories, valley of death

New project is the ACME of computer science to address climate change

August 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — High performance computing researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working with the Department of Energy (DOE) and other national laboratories and institutions to develop and apply the most complete climate and Earth system model, to address the most challenging and demanding climate change issues. Accelerated Climate Modeling...

Categories: Climate Change, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate change, computer modeling, high performance computing

Chief Computational Scientist Mark Taylor

Sandia report draws lessons learned from ‘perfect heists’ for national security

August 19, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In 2003, the unthinkable happened at Belgium’s Antwerp Diamond Center. Thieves broke into its reputedly impenetrable vault and made off with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds, gold, cash and other valuables.[caption id="" align="ali…

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: national security, security

New way to report purchases better shows how Sandia Labs spends money

August 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has changed the way it categorizes purchased goods and services by linking each acquisition to a specific industry code. “This change in our data systems allows Sandia to better describe to our stakeholders, customers and the general public how we spend our money,” said...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, economic impact, government contracting, minority owned, NAICS, national laboratories, national labs, procurement, small business, suppliers, woman owned

Tech transfer awards salute innovation, commercialization at Sandia Labs

August 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC is a nationwide network of more than 300 members that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, DOE, economic development, economic impact, flc, H2FIRST, Mantevo, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, renewable, research, technology, technology transfer

3-D codes yield unprecedented physics, engineering insights

August 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry in 2002, sophisticated computer models were key to determining what happened.A piece of foam flew off at launch and hit a tile, damaging the leading edge of the shuttle wing and exposing the unde…

Categories: Computing, Space / Astronomy

Topics: 3-D code, computer codes, DSMC, Open source, Sandia National Laboratories, SPARTA

Sandia National Laboratories researchers Steve Plimpton, left, and Michael Gallis look at a projection of a model of the Russian MIR space station, which fell out of orbit several years ago and disintegrated, with the remains ending up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Using Sandia's 3-D code SPARTA, the calculation is simulating an instance of the process of de-orbiting.

Watching neurons fire from a front-row seat

July 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: brain, MESA, microscale, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, neural probe, neurons, Sandia National Laboratories

Joint hire increases materials science collaboration for Sandia Labs, UNM

July 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have hired Fernando Garzon, a nationally recognized scientist and inventor, to work for both institutions. It is the first joint hire recruited together by Sandia and UNM. “Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: collaboration, joint hire, national laboratories, partnerships, research, University of New Mexico

Survivor: Sandia ensures US nuclear weapons deterrent can remain effective, credible

July 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It may sound strange to say that nuclear weapons must survive radiation. But as part of its mission of ensuring the nation’s stockpile is safe, secure and effective as a deterrent, Sandia National Laboratories must make sure crucial parts can function…

Categories: Computing, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: modeling, neutron damage, nuclear weapons, QASPR, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia Pulsed Reactor

Security professional at Sandia nationally recognized with annual NNSA award

July 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories security professional Paulette Solis has received the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Bradley A. Peterson Contractor Security Professional of the Year Award. This year’s federal honoree is Susan Christian-Payne of the Nevada Field Office, who received the NNSA’s Bradley A. Peterson Federal Security Professional...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: NNSA, security professional

IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society Merit Award honors Sandia radiation effects expert

July 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia radiation effects researcher Jim Schwank has won the 2014 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award, which recognizes outstanding technical contributions to the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences.“I feel highly honored,” said Sc…

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: ieee, nuclear, plasma, radiation, space radiation

Vehicle fuel efficiency, biofuels, climate change to be explored by world’s leading combustion scientists

July 14, 2014, Media Advisory • International symposium to feature foremost experts on fuel and combustion research LIVERMORE, Calif.— Nearly 1,500 of the world’s foremost fuels and combustion scientists and engineers will gather in San Francisco on Aug. 3-8 for the 35th International Symposium on Comb…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Sandia researchers win three R&D 100 awards

July 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...

Categories: Awards, Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security

Topics: anthrax detection, computer program, nuclear materials detection

More California gas stations can provide H2 than previously thought, Sandia study says

July 8, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A study by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concludes that a number of existing gas stations in California can safely store and dispense hydrogen, suggesting a broader network of hydrogen fueling stations may be within reach.The report examin…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: fuel cell, fuel cell vehicle, gas stations, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell

Diamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry

June 27, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You wouldn’t think that mechanical force — the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars, shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards — could process nanoparticles more subtly than the most advanced chemistry. Yet, in a recent paper in Nature Communications,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: embossing, flexible electronics, force, LEDs, nanotechnology, solar cells

IED detector developed by Sandia Labs being transferred to Army

June 26, 2014 • Copperhead Synthetic Aperture Radar system helps troops by detecting IEDs day or night, in any weather ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture radar (MiniSAR) system to do just that, some...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense

Topics: Army, defense, IEDs, JIEDDO, military, SAR, synthetic aperture radar

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