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Report spotlights Sandia’s impact on New Mexico economy
January 15, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent nearly a billion dollars on goods and services in fiscal year 2014 and New Mexico businesses received more than 38 percent of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. Of the total of $961.8 million Sandia spent last year, New...
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‘Iron Sun’ is not a rock band, but a key to how stars transmit energy
January 6, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Working at temperatures matching the interior of the sun, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have been able to determine experimentally, for the first time in history, iron’s role in inhibiting energy transmission from the center of the sun to near the edge of its radiative...
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Breakthrough in predictions of pressure-dependent combustion chemical reactions
December 23, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical reaction rates. It’s an important breakthrough in combustion and atmospheric chemistry that is expected to benefit auto and engine manufacturers, oil and gas utilities and other industries...
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Linde, Sandia partnership looks to expand hydrogen fueling network
December 17, 2014 • LIVERMORE, CALIF. — Sandia National Laboratories and industrial gas giant Linde LLC have signed an umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) that is expected to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy and industrial technologies, beginning with hydrogen and fuel cells. The CRADA will kick off with two new research...
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Getting bot responders into shape
December 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is tackling one of the biggest barriers to the use of robots in emergency response: energy efficiency. Through a project supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Sandia is developing technology that will dramatically improve the endurance of legged robots, helping them...
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Sandia, University of Illinois sign research agreement
December 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have signed an extensive, five-year agreement that aims to solve science and technology problems of national importance. The enhanced partnership has three principal goals: solve big problems, sustain and engage human capital and accelerate technology adoption. The...
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Storing hydrogen underground could boost transportation, energy security
December 9, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office. Geologic storage of hydrogen...
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Turning biological cells to stone improves cancer and stem cell research
December 8, 2014 • ‘Zombie’ method also hardens biostructures for mass production ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to transmute living cells into more permanent materials that defy decay and can endure high-powered probes is widening research opportunities...
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New leadership named for Sandia nuclear weapons work
December 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has appointed Stephen Rottler as deputy director and executive vice president for National Security Programs effective March 6. He succeeds Jerry McDowell, who will retire in July after 35 years at Sandia. McDowell has been executive vice president since 2010. Rottler is vice president...
Categories: HR / Personnel, Operations / Budget

Studies look at long-term aging of electronics in nuclear weapons
December 4, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is studying how environments, including radiation that originates from a nuclear weapon itself, could affect the performance of electronics in the W76-1 warhead as they age. Sandia, which is responsible for most non-nuclear components in U.S. nuclear weapons, is helping replace W76 warheads in...
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Two Sandia leaders elected AAAS Fellows
December 1, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Gil Herrera and Steve Rottler, two key members of Sandia National Laboratories’ senior leadership team, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The honor is bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Herrera, director of Sandia’s Microsystems Science, Technology and...
Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

State safety award goes to Sandia engineer
November 26, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Luis G. Amezcua, a surveillance assessment engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, began his safety career in Mexico helping improve safety standards in the construction industry. His career has followed an interesting trajectory. Amezcua received the New Mexico Safety Professional of the Year award from the American Society...
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Starting point for suppliers at Sandia is not a recording
November 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The first voice people hear when they call Sandia National Laboratories for information about becoming a supplier is the real thing. “I was surprised to talk to a live person about how to do business with Sandia,” said Danny Ruiz of Mazda Computing in Albuquerque. “You don’t...
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Electric Car Challenge sparks students’ STEM interest
November 20, 2014, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Aspiring automotive engineers from 27 middle schools across New Mexico will compete in the New Mexico Electric Car Challenge on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Highland High School gymnasium in Albuquerque. Forty-six teams will participate in a race, a design competition...
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Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue
November 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $2.3 billion worth of economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $89 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $12.9 million for the city of Albuquerque in the...
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Sandia to ink MOU with New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
November 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Paul Hommert will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science’s executive director Charles Walter and foundation executive director Jotina Trussell at the museum’s Start Up exhibit Friday, Nov. 21, at 11:45...
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Sandia’s Cooperative Monitoring Center promotes global security for 20 years
November 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Cooperative Monitoring Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary of promoting the principles of cooperation and the value of technology in support of international security agreements. Since it was established in 1994, the CMC has worked to address critical security issues by bringing together policy...
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Sandia releases interface to help standardize supercomputer power and energy systems
November 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To help moderate the energy needs of increasingly power-hungry supercomputers, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have released an application programming interface (API) with the goal of standardizing measurement and control of power- and energy-relevant features for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The High Performance Computing — Power API...
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The High Performance Computing -- Power Application Program Interface is intended to standardize and control power and energy features of high-performance computing systems.

From Vietnam with love: Sandia Labs retiree works to return wartime greetings
November 6, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you were, or know, a New Mexico Air National Guardsman stationed in Tuy Hoa,Vietnam, in 1968, Art Sena is looking for you. The reason goes back to a long-ago wish to make Christmas merrier for servicemen at war, and a long-lost box of film. Sena, a...
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Combining ‘Tinkertoy’ materials with solar cells for increased photovoltaic efficiency
November 3, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have received a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to develop a technique that they believe will significantly improve the efficiencies of photovoltaic materials and help make solar electricity cost-competitive with other sources of energy. The work...
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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Vitalie Stavila inserts a substrate patterned with electrodes into a temperature-controlled liquid-phase reactor for depositing MOF thin films. Sandia's research team plans to combine MOFs with dye-sensitized solar cells, a technique it believes will lead to advancements in photovoltaic technology. (Photo by Dino Vournas)

MINER shines in urban emergency response exercise
October 30, 2014 • Mobile imager of fast neutrons spots radiation source at a distance and through shielding LIVERMORE, Calif. — A nuclear device has been hidden in a high-rise building in a major metropolitan area. Emergency responders have intelligence that narrows down the location to a single city block, but it isn’t safe...
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W88 warhead program performs successful tests
October 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The first flight and drop tests for the latest variant of the W88 nuclear warhead are providing data for Sandia National Laboratories to validate designs, improve computer modeling and update component specifications. The two successful tests, which were conducted this summer, provide data for the program, the...
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Evaluating powerful batteries for modular grid energy storage
October 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has begun lab-based characterization of TransPower’s GridSaver, the largest grid energy storage system analyzed at Sandia’s Energy Storage Test Pad in Albuquerque, N.M. Project lead David Rosewater said Sandia will evaluate the 1 megawatt, lithium-ion grid energy storage system for capacity, power, safety and...
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Adaptive zoom riflescope prototype has push-button magnification
October 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When an Army Special Forces officer-turned-engineer puts his mind to designing a military riflescope, he doesn’t forget the importance of creating something for the soldiers who will carry it that is easy to use, extremely accurate, light-weight and has long-lasting battery power. Sandia National Laboratories optical engineer...
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A better prosthesis: Sandia invents sensor to learn about fit; system to make fit better
October 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As an amputee walks on a prosthetic leg during the day, the natural fluid in the leg shifts and the muscles shrink slightly. Now imagine the problem that poses for the fit of the prosthesis. There’s a growing need for a solution. The national Amputee Coalition says...
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