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Exploring explosives for expanding geothermal energy

June 21, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Why are scientists setting off small-scale explosions inside 1-foot cubes of plexiglass? They’re watching how fractures form and grow in a rock-like substance to see if explosives or propellants, similar to jet fuel, can connect geothermal wells in a predictable manner. Geothermal energy has a lot of...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: enhanced geothermal systems, explosives research, fracture prediction, geothermal

Sandia weapons systems engineering director honored by NNSA, Air Force and Navy

June 9, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jim Handrock, Sandia National Laboratories’ director of New Mexico weapons systems engineering, received a series of awards and commendations from the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Air Force and Navy recognizing his leadership, expertise and service to the nation during a celebration at Sandia on May 4....

Categories: Awards, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B61-12, nuclear deterrence, W88 Alt 370

Build-a-satellite program could fast track national security space missions

June 8, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Satellites equipped with remote sensing technology execute many critical national security missions, from detecting explosions to tracking sea ice, but until now it could take a team years to move from a concept to a deployable space system. Valhalla, a Python-based performance modeling framework developed at Sandia...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: high performance computing, national security, satellite, satellite constellation, satellite design, satellites, space

Thomas Bradshaw inspects a computer board

Sandia researcher Ray Tuminaro named SIAM fellow

June 7, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia computational scientist and applied mathematician Ray Tuminaro has been named a 2022 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for “contributions in iterative linear-solver algorithms and software that address scientific computing applications on large-scale parallel systems.” A distinguished member of Sandia’s technical staff, Tuminaro...

Categories: Awards, Computing

Topics: multigrid algorithms, numerical algorithms, Trilinos

National group honors Sandia Labs recruiter as veterans champion

May 25, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories talent acquisition specialist Tony Lona, a recruiter focused on veterans and unique abilities, was named a 2022 Veteran Champion of the Year in Corporate America by G.I. Jobs Magazine. The award is presented to those who champion the recruitment, hiring, retention and career advancement...

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel

Topics: diversity, exceptional warrior career development program, hiring, recruitment, veterans

Powering the moon: Sandia researchers design microgrid for future lunar base

May 11, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is well-known for designing reliable and resilient microgrids for military bases and vital city services. Now, Sandia researchers are working with NASA to design one for the moon. This is not the first time Sandia has partnered with NASA to power equipment on the...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Space / Astronomy

Topics: Mars, microgrid, moon, NASA, space

An illustration with solar panels and a dome on the moon with another base further away and the Earth in the sky.

Computer code may help speed up airport security

May 9, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Imagine moving through airport security without having to take off your shoes or belt or getting pulled aside while your flight boards — while keeping all the precautions that ensure the safety of passengers and flight crews. This is the challenge tackled by a team including researchers...

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: air travel safety, airport security, aviation, Sandia National Laboratories

Seashell-inspired Sandia shield protects materials in hostile environments

May 3, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Word of an extraordinarily inexpensive material, lightweight enough to protect satellites against debris in the cold of outer space, cohesive enough to strengthen the walls of pressurized vessels experiencing average conditions on Earth and yet heat-res…

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Weapons, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: coating, satellites, shield, Z

International collaboration compares geologic repository assessment tools

April 15, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and partner national laboratories will compare their Geologic Disposal Safety Assessment software framework to the safety assessment software of international peers at a late-April workshop. The Sandia-led Geologic Disposal Safety Assessment framework is a computer modeling system designed to answer critical safety...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: deep geologic respository, nuclear repository, respository science, safety assessment, spent nuclear fuel, uncertainty quantification

Woman and man talk with a colorful computer model on a screen behind them.

Cheers to five more years

April 14, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An initiative that helps businesses transform New Mexico national laboratories’ technologies into viable products and services will continue driving innovations to market into 2027. Passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Michelle …

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: commercialization, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, intellectual property, licensing, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, tech transfer, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer, TRGR

Including everyone at the table

April 12, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In less than three years at Sandia National Laboratories, competitive intelligence specialist Kelli Howie has made waves throughout the federal laboratory complex by creating programs to boost diversity in technology transfer activities.Howie’s target…

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: diversity and inclusion, Federal Laboratory Consortium, FLC Award, tech transfer, technology transfer

Could quantum technology be New Mexico’s next economic boon?

April 1, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Science, education and economic development leaders across New Mexico have formed a coalition to bring future quantum computing jobs to the state. Sandia National Laboratories, The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the new coalition today at UNM during the Quantum New Mexico...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: collaborations, quantum computing, quantum information science, technology and economic development

Preserving the past

March 22, 2022, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When archaeologist Christina Chavez surveys Sandia National Laboratories land and finds rusted tobacco tins, ceramic fragments, glass shards or rocks resting in deliberate formations, she documents and determines who at the Labs needs to know.[caption i…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, History

Topics: archaeologist, archaeology, christina chavez, Cultural Resources, environment, ES&H, history, National Historic Preservation Act, safety

Record-breaking, ultrafast devices step to protecting the grid from EMPs

March 15, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts — a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an electromagnetic pulse. The team published...

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

Topics: electric cars, electric grid, electromagnetic pulse, EMP, grid, power converters, power electronics, smart transformers, solar panels

Foreground: Two men, one passing a nickel-sized wafer. Background: A device for testing the diodes on the wafer and a computer screen showing an array of dots/diodes

Neuromorphic computing widely applicable, Sandia researchers show

March 10, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With the insertion of a little math, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have shown that neuromorphic computers, which synthetically replicate the brain’s logic, can solve more complex problems than those posed by artificial intelligence and may even earn a place in high-performance computing. The findings, detailed in a...

Categories: Climate Security, Computing, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: AI, artificial intelligence, brain-based computing, energy efficiency, high performance computing, HPC, neuromorphic computing

Safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars, power grid

March 7, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Solid-state batteries, currently used in small electronic devices like smart watches, have the potential to be safer and more powerful than lithium-ion batteries for things such as electric cars and storing energy from solar panels for later use. However, several technical challenges remain before solid-state batteries can...

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

Topics: Batteries, battery, battery abuse testing laboratory, battery safety, battery testing, lithium metal battery, lithium-ion batteries

Two men, one holding a shiny battery testing case, stand beside a beach-ball-sized, thick-metal testing instrument.

Sandia engineer elected fellow of two prestigious national societies

March 2, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Babu Chalamala, an engineer and manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ energy storage group, was recently elected fellow of two prestigious national societies. On Jan. 26, he became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. On Dec. 7, he became a fellow of the...

Categories: Awards, Renewable energy

Topics: AAAS Fellow, american association for the advancement of science, awards, energy storage, grid-scale energy storage, NAI Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Black engineer awards distinguish Sandia Labs

February 28, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership, Science Spectrum Trailblazers and Modern-Day Technology Leaders. Honorees include Sandia mechanical, electrical, civil, aerospace and aeronautical engineers who excel in their respective fields. From the...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Cybersecurity, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: awards, community, computing, diversity, diversity and inclusion, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM

Sandia scientist to lead materials science organization

February 21, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Brad Boyce, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, was elected president of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. Boyce will become vice president of the society on March 3 at its annual meeting, and then serve three consecutive one-year terms as vice president, president and past...

Categories: Awards, Materials Science

Topics: materials science, president of professional society, The minerals metals and materials society

Brad Boyce watches a yellow commercial robot scan a 3D-printed test part with blue light.

Improved nuclear accident code helps policymakers assess risks from small reactors

February 16, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories recently updated the Maccs code to better aid the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the global nuclear industry in assessing the consequences of nuclear accidents. The Maccs code can also evaluate the potential health and environmental risks posed by advanced nuclear reactors and small modular...

Categories: Computing, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: accident modeling, computer codes, Maccs, Melcor, nuclear accident, Nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear safety

Two people walking beside a fence. A cooling stack of a nuclear facility is in the background.

Algorithm could shorten quality testing, research in many industries by months

February 15, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A machine-learning algorithm developed at Sandia National Laboratories could provide auto manufacturing, aerospace and other industries a faster and more cost-efficient way to test bulk materials. The technique was published recently in the scientific journal Materials Science and Engineering: A. Production stoppages are costly. So, manufacturers screen...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: machine learning, materials testing, microstructure, technology transfer

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Major milestone for B61-12 life extension program

February 2, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories marked a major milestone when the Nuclear Security Enterprise successfully produced the first completely refurbished bomb for the B61-12 life extension program in November 2021. “This is the first complete unit built with nuclear and non-nuclear components that has been fully qualified from the...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B61-12, first production unit, nuclear deterrence, nuclear weapon modernization, nuclear weapons

Great Minds in STEM celebrates two Sandia engineers

January 31, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories systems engineer Kenneth Armijo has been named a 2021 Most Promising Engineer Advanced Degree at the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference. Sandia mechanical engineer Michael Omana was named a 2021 Most Promising Scientist, Masters at the conference. Armijo, who holds a doctorate in...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, Coronavirus, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diversity, HENAAC awards, STEM

Powerful Sandia machine-learning model shows diamond melting at high pressure

January 26, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulation model called SNAP that rapidly predicts the behavior of billions of interacting atoms has captured the melting of diamond when compressed by extreme pressures and temperatures. At several million atmospheres, the rigid carbon lattice of the hardest known substance on Earth...

Categories: Materials Science, Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: carbon, diamond, exoplanets, Gordon Bell, machine learning, quantum mechanical, supercomputer simulationst

US Department of Labor recognizes Sandia Labs for hiring veterans

January 24, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Secretary of Labor Martin J. Walsh recently recognized Sandia National Laboratories as one of 849 recipients of the 2021 HIRE Vets Medallion Award during a virtual award ceremony presented by the Department of Labor. The Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act Medallion...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: diversity, inclusion, veterans

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