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Managing the data deluge for national security analysts

November 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After a disaster or national tragedy, bits of information often are found afterward among vast amounts of available data that might have mitigated or even prevented what happened, had they been recognized ahead of time. In this information age, national security analysts often find themselves searching for...

Categories: Computing, Homeland security, Military / Defense

Topics: big data, data analysis, geospatial analytics, national security analysts, visual cognition

Computer researcher at Sandia wins IEEE early career award

November 10, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Kurt Ferreira has been selected for the 2015 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers. The award recognizes up to three individuals who have made influential and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing within...

Categories: Awards, Computing

Topics: award, computer science, high performance computing, ieee, scalable

Researchers offer consulting to companies that license Sandia inventions

November 5, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a boost to technology transfer, Sandia National Laboratories has launched a program that lets researchers consult for companies that license their Sandia work. “There is a need for this. We hear often in the business community that it would help a lot if our people could...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, licensing, national labs, small business, tech transfer

DOE aims to boost economy through national lab tech transfer

October 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is intensifying efforts to move technology developed at the national laboratories into the private sector to boost the economy and create jobs, says the acting director of the department’s new Office of Technology Transitions. “Tech transfer is a mission of the...

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

Topics: business, DOE, economic development, economic impact, national labs, tech transfer

An ‘apatite’ for radionuclides

October 20, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories geochemist Mark Rigali and his colleagues are developing and deploying apatite-based technologies to protect groundwater at sites contaminated by radionuclides and heavy metals. Apatite is currently being used at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State and the Fukushima Dai-ichi...

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

Topics: apatite barrier, Fukushima, geochemistry, groundwater, Hanford Site

W80-4: Sandia California works on nuclear weapon Life Extension Program

October 15, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is doing what it hasn’t done in decades: extending the life of a nuclear warhead at the same time the U.S. Air Force develops a replacement cruise missile that will carry the weapon. The goal of the W80-4 Life Extension Program (LEP) is refurbishing...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: Life Extension Program, nuclear weapons, W80-4

Chemical engineer named University of New Mexico distinguished alumna

October 14, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The director of Sandia National Laboratories’ Energy Technologies and System Solutions Center has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Engineering. Carol Adkins was honored as one of seven distinguished alumni recognized this year for her significant impact on UNM’s...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: alumni award, carol adkins, school of engineering, unm

LED Pulser developed by Sandia delivers laser-like performance at fraction of the cost

October 13, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — When Sandia National Laboratories electronics engineer Chris Carlen got enthusiastic about flashlights containing high-power light-emitting devices (LEDs), he didn’t expect his hobby to lead to the creation of a new, high-speed LED driver that delivers lighting performance that exceeds that of conventional sources at a fraction of...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: laser, LED, light emitting devices

Bay Area national labs team to tackle long-standing automotive hydrogen storage challenge

October 8, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. —Sandia National Laboratories will lead a new tri-lab consortium to address unsolved scientific challenges in the development of viable solid-state materials for storage of hydrogen onboard vehicles. Better onboard hydrogen storage could lead to more reliable and economic hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. “Storing hydrogen on board vehicles is...

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: hydrogen fuel cells, HyMARC, materials

Way cheaper catalyst may lower fuel costs for hydrogen-powered cars

October 7, 2015 • ‘ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt — molybdenum disulfide, “molly” for short — to stand in for platinum, a rare element with the moonlike price of about $900 an ounce....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Transportation

Topics: catalyst, hydrogen, molly, mollybdenum disulfide, platinum

Sandia researchers win ‘best paper’ award from AIAA

October 1, 2015 • Paper focuses on scramjet engines used for supersonic flight LIVERMORE, Calif. — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has recognized Sandia National Laboratories researchers Joe Oefelein and Guilhem Lacaze with a best paper award for their work on scramjet engine simulations. The paper, “A Priori Analysis of Flamelet-Based...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: AIAA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, computational fluid dynamics, scramjet

New Mexico small businesses prosper with technical help

September 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ski bums need fuel to schuss down mountains day in and day out. Their go-to snack is an energy bar, a backpack staple. “We need something that is quick, healthy, sustaining and cheap,” said Kyle Hawari of Taos, New Mexico. But taste matters too. “We humans crave...

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

Topics: collaboration, economic development, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Techniques could create better material, design in high-consequence uses

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a table with sinuous legs resembling the twisting shape of an inverted swamp cypress trunk. Those flowing legs might make the table stronger, better able to handle whatever someone piles on it. Sandia National Laboratories researchers believe such organically shaped designs, achieved through a technology called...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, computer modeling and simulation, design, engineering, high-consequence uses, manufacturing, material properties, materials, national security, topology optimization

Sandia clean-energy assistance pilot is open for business

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Small businesses in the clean-energy sector can apply for technical help from Sandia National Laboratories and other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) labs through a new pilot. David Danielson, DOE assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), announced the launch of the Small Business Vouchers...

Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: clean energy, collaboration, economic development, national labs, renewable energy, small business, tech transfer

Sandia Labs HENAAC honorees find common threads in diversity

September 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Thousands of miles separate the hometowns of Patrick Sena and Abraham Ellis. Sena grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Ellis in Chitre, Panama, but they shared upbringings centered on family, community and culture. “What does it mean to be Hispanic?” said Ellis, manager of Photovoltaic...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, diversity, HENACC, national labs, STEM

Workhorse gamma ray generator HERMES III fires its 10,000th shot at Sandia Labs

September 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source, better known as HERMES III, has fired its 10,000th shot at Sandia National Laboratories. HERMES III, the world’s most powerful gamma ray generator, produces a highly energetic beam that tests how well electronics can survive a burst of radiation that approximates...

Categories: Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electronics testing, gamma rays, HERMES III

New vice president to oversee energy, security, nonproliferation research at Sandia

September 8, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has appointed James M. Chavez vice president of its Energy, Nonproliferation and High Consequence Security Division and its International, Homeland and Nuclear Security Program Management Unit effective Sept. 11. He replaces Jill Hruby, who became Sandia president and labs director in July. Most recently,...

Categories: Homeland security, HR / Personnel, Nonproliferation

Sandia physicist accepts first joint faculty appointment with Washington State University

September 3, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories physicist Marcus Knudson is the first joint faculty appointee to serve both Sandia and Washington State University (WSU). In the position, Knudson will enhance fundamental research into the compression of materials under extreme conditions, using Sandia’s unique Z machine. “The science of dynamic material...

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

Topics: duvall, high energy density, Marcus Knudson, pulsed power, shock compression, Washington State, z machine

Nothing but water: Hydrogen fuel cell unit to provide renewable power to Honolulu port

August 28, 2015 • HONOLULU — A new chapter in clean energy is starting in Hawaii. At Young Brothers Ltd.’s Port of Honolulu facility, Sandia National Laboratories is leading the Maritime Hydrogen Fuel Cell project to test a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered generator as an alternative to conventional diesel generators. The project kickoff was marked with a...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Transportation

Topics: clean energy, energy, Hawaii, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, maritime, renewable energy, Sandia National Laboratories

‘Laboratory Biorisk Management’ details safety, security methods for biosciences sites

August 25, 2015 • Sandia, international experts publish first biorisk management how-to book ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Recent mishaps at laboratories that mishandled potentially dangerous biological substances and the transmission of the Ebola virus in a U.S. hospital are symptoms at bioscience facilities that two Sandia National Laboratories researchers think could be prevented by implementing...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security

Topics: anthrax, biorisk management, biosafety, CRC Press, Ebola, Laboratory Biorisk Management

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Biological tools create nerve-like polymer network

August 24, 2015 • Crowdsurfing motor proteins create possible prosthetic interface ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using a succession of biological mechanisms, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have created linkages of polymer nanotubes that resemble the structure of a nerve, with many out-thrust filaments poised to gather or send electrical impulses. “This is the first demonstration of...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: bioengineering, kinesin, microtubules, motor proteins, neural structure, polymers, quantum dots

New arena of power generation set in motion with MOU

August 20, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and eight other companies and research organizations will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity. The memorandum of understanding focuses on the development of a fossil-fueled energy system based on supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton cycle technology....

Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: brayton, brayton cycle, brayton cycle technology, brayton laboratory, peregrine turbine technologies, S-CO2

Algae nutrient recycling is a triple win

August 19, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Nitrogen and phosphate nutrients are among the biggest costs in cultivating algae for biofuels. Sandia molecular biologists Todd Lane and Ryan Davis have shown they can recycle about two-thirds of those critical nutrients, and aim to raise the recycling rate to close to 100 percent. Recycling nitrogen...

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: algae, biofuels, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphate, recycling, renewable energy

Sandia Labs takes home regional tech transfer awards

August 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. One award honored business development specialist Bianca Thayer as Technology Transfer Professional of the Year. Sandia technologies recognized by the FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, economic development, economic impact, flc, national labs, tech transfer

Sandia teams with industry to improve human-data interaction

August 13, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Intelligence analysts working to identify national security threats in warzones or airports or elsewhere often flip through multiple images to create a video-like effect. They also may toggle between images at lightning speed, pan across images, zoom in and out or view videos or other moving records....

Categories: Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cognitive, environment, intelligence, medical, security

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