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Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities
September 11, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat. When fully operational, the four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate...
Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Jon Salton, left, and Steve Buerger put the Precision Urban Hopper through its paces. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Download 300dpi 4.27MB JPEG image (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.)

Sandia Labs to highlight evolving national security mission in Washington, D.C., 60th anniversary events
September 11, 2009 • Sandia National Laboratories will hold a media availability Sept. 15 at the National Press Club featuring several of the lab’s technical experts and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s top Defense Programs official, followed by a technical exposition Sept. 16 at the Capitol Visitor Center showcasing state-of-the-art national security technologies. News...
Categories: Media advisories

Sandia, DHS to demonstrate cargo security technologies
August 20, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Shipping containers are potential targets for organizations interested in illegally smuggling weapons, drugs and other contraband. Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s Borders and Maritime Division plan to demonstrate several technologies for securing in-transit cargo at Defense Threat Reduction...
Categories: Homeland security
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Media Day at Sandia National Laboratories Aug. 19
August 3, 2009 • Media invited to see the future of transportation and electric powerALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a future of cleaner, safer transportation and cleaner, smarter electric power that reenergizes America and makes the country more secure.Media can get a glimpse of that future a…
Categories: Media advisories

Purer water made possible by Sandia advance
July 21, 2009 • A single atom makes a big difference ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to products currently on the market. Sandia has applied for...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia wins five R&D 100 awards
July 20, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs — received five R&D 100 Awards this year, and played a role in a sixth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers who have developed the...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Sandia announces appointment of new vice president
July 9, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter today announced the selection of Carolyne Hart as vice president of Weapons Engineering and Product Realization. Hart has been a member of Sandia's Defense Systems and Assessments Program director team, a…
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Robot rodeo offers excitement, experience to state’s bomb squads
June 23, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A “robot rodeo” at Sandia National Laboratories will be opened for media on Thursday, June 25, from 9 to 11 a.m. Participating teams are expected to include bomb squads from the Albuquerque Police Department, Santa Fe Police Department, New Mexico State Police, Kirtland Air Force Base, and...
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Salt block unexpectedly stretches in Sandia experiments
June 22, 2009 • Nanoscopic discovery may have implications for smog, asthma, cloud formation ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh were startled when they found they had made the solid actually physically stretch. “It’s not...
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Sandia to hold five town hall meetings
June 12, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia's Small Business Utilization Department will hold a series of five town hall meetings this summer beginning June 16. The meetings are designed to engage the local supplier community in dialogue and information-sharing sessions regarding how to do...
Categories: Operations / Budget

“Microswimmer” and extremely tiny testing tool are big winners at Sandia student MEMS contest
June 9, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A “microswimmer” about the diameter of a human hair won the “novel design” category of the fifth annual Sandia National Laboratories-sponsored MEMS University Alliance Design Competition. The microswimmer, which resembles a tiny fish, is designed to have an aluminum tail that whips back and forth from being heated...
Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

EESAT 2009 conference scheduled for October
June 1, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Electrical energy storage technologies and applications, with an emphasis on the latest technological developments for the use of electricity storage in the power industry, will be addressed at the EESAT Conference Oct. 4-7 at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia

Sandia signs MOU with Japanese national institute
May 26, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have signed an agreement to conduct and share research of mutual interest. Areas of immediate importance named in the memorandum of understanding include photovoltaics, nanoelectronics, nanomaterials and computational investigations of the properties of materials....
Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia names two new directors
April 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Vice President for Human Resources and Communications John Slipke has named two new directors: Karen Gardner, director of the Human Resources Center, and George Rhynedance, director of the Public Relations & Communications Center.
Categories: Operations / Budget
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