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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 team developing right-sized reactor
August 25, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A smaller scale, economically efficient nuclear reactor that could be mass-assembled in factories and supply power for a medium-size city or military base has been designed by Sandia National Laboratories. The exportable, proliferation-resistant “right-sized reactor” was conceived by a Sandia research team led by Tom Sanders. Sanders...
Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Sandia to hold Small Disadvantaged Business/HUBZone town hall meeting
August 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Small Business Utilization Department at Sandia National Laboratories will hold the third in a series of four town hall meetings on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The 8(a)/Small Disadvantaged Business/HUBZone town hall will be held Tuesday, Aug. 25 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. at the African American Performing Arts Center...
Categories: Operations / Budget

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 power ALBUQUERQUE, 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 at Sandia National Laboratories the morning of...
Categories: Media advisories

Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines
July 28, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. The achievement will allow cyber security researchers to more effectively observe behavior found in malicious botnets, or networks...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering
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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 sponsors Earth, Wind, and Sun conference
July 16, 2009 • July 21-22 event to feature keynote speakers, workshops, 60 booths ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Speakers, booths, tours and workshops on how to green buildings to conserve energy and water and to reduce the environmental impact of transportation will be part of the second annual Earth, Wind and Sun conference sponsored by...
Categories: Media advisories, Renewable energy
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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, and most recently served as the director of Sandia’s Electronic Systems...
Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

New SunCatcher™ power system unveiled at National Solar Thermal Test Facility
July 7, 2009 • Sandia worked closely with Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar to optimize design ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers™, the new dishes have a refined design...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Sandia signs agreement with Chinese university
July 1, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Tsinghua University in China have signed an agreement that will focus research on global understanding and technical solutions for low-carbon energy alternatives. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) outlines the intention to develop cooperative research activities including exchanging technical information and data, developing physics...
Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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 town hall meeting June 23 geared to women-owned businesses
June 22, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will hold the second in a series of five town meetings Tuesday, June 23, designed to provide the supplier community with information on business opportunities available at the Labs. The second meeting is geared toward women-owned small businesses. The first was aimed at veteran-owned...
Categories: Operations / Budget

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 business with Sandia, to review current contracting opportunities and...
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 in Seattle, Washington. The sixth biennial Electrical Energy Storage...
Categories: Conferences / Symposia

Hydrogen Road Tour event in Livermore will showcase fuel cell vehicles
May 27, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — As Sandia National Laboratories prepares to cohost the upcoming Hydrogen Road Tour in Livermore, Calif., Sandia’s hydrogen program manager, Jay Keller, asserts that recent advances in hydrogen technology are real and significant. “Sandia has been at the forefront of significant technical improvements in hydrogen that have been...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Sandia, Purdue investigate new methods for monitoring and operating wind turbines
May 27, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers with Sandia National Laboratories and Purdue University are using sensors and computational software to help design a better wind turbine. The sensors are being placed on experimental turbines in Bushland, Texas, to provide enhanced capabilities to monitor and control the wind turbines. A team from both...
Categories: Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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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 successfully completes hydrogen storage system for GM
May 7, 2009 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material known as sodium alanate. The system, developed through a multiyear project funded by General Motors Corp., stores 3 kilograms of hydrogen and is...
Categories: Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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