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April 4, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Although several outstanding electronic invoice solutions exist, a flexible standard for electronic invoicing that meets industry needs was not available until now. Rapid e-Invoice, the first XML (extensible markup language )-based standard for electronic...

April 4, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company Ardesta have joined forces through a new partnership agreement to transfer Labs-developed microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microsystems technologies to start-up companies in the...

March 28, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some 275 experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and more than 40 countries will gather in Albuquerque April 20-22 to discuss the threat of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the policies required to control them.

March 26, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The latest version of the widely used shock wave physics computer code, CTH, developed by Sandia National Laboratories, will soon be available to customers nationwide. The code simulates high-speed impact and penetration phenomena involving a variety of...

March 23, 2001 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A new facility to develop and deploy distributed information systems technologies for the nuclear weapons complex (NWC) is now in design and will be constructed at Sandia National Labs/California by 2003. Design of the new facility, called the Distributed...

March 13, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories this week plans to conduct the first tests at the lab’s new Gamma Irradiation Facility, officially welcoming the GIF into the lab’s family of experimental nuclear facilities.

March 7, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A seven-month-old Sandia National Laboratories program to help small New Mexico businesses solve pressing technical problems is off to a fast start, with more than 110 projects under way or completed. More than 190 businesses have applied for such help, and...

February 21, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers studying ways to capture radioactive chemicals swimming in a sea of hazardous waste have created a new class of molecular cages that, like lobster traps, let certain species in while keeping others out.

February 21, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A magnetic field that accelerates pellets faster than anything except a nuclear explosion has been developed experimentally at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

February 21, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Braving almost certain stomach upset, Sandia National Laboratories student intern Jason Brown and three other chemical engineering students from the University of New Mexico will ride NASA’s wild-bronc-bucking KC-135A airplane — familiarly known as the...

January 31, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — What may be the world’s smallest robot — it “turns on a dime and parks on a nickel” — is being developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

January 24, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Lockheed Martin/Sandia National Laboratories are donating $100,000 to Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce’s Barelas Job Opportunity Center. Labs Director and President C. Paul Robinson will present a check for $100,000 at the Hispano Chamber’s annual...

January 19, 2001 • WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that Sandia National Laboratories and Celera Genomics (NYSE:CRA), an Applera Corporation business, have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) will...

December 11, 2000 • Albuquerque, N.M. — If you wanted to build your own micromachine — gear teeth as small as red blood cells, individual device as big as a grain of pollen — how would you even know what you wanted to draw, let alone write the code? And where would you get...

December 5, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories have released updated computer software that models the complex physical phenomena that occur as a nuclear power plant accident progresses through time.

November 10, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A lightweight, portable chemical vapor detection system developed by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories is in final preparation for the big test — a field test simulating a chemical release. The system is designed to identify...

October 31, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—More powerful than an ordinary locomotive and expected to climb steep mountains without losing traction, Seraphim - a simpler, less expensive US alternative to the magnetically levitated (maglev) trains of Europe and Japan - is now funded for development at...

October 27, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A tiny bar that in appearance resembles cheesecloth has bent infrared beams with very little loss of light in laboratory experiments at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. The bar is fabricated from gallium arsenide.

October 17, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hopping machines inspired by the clumsy jumping of grasshoppers may soon give robots unprecedented mobility for exploring other planets, gathering war-fighting intelligence, and assisting police during standoffs or surveillance operations.

October 17, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The first ultra-violet (UV) solid-state microcavity laser has been demonstrated in prototype by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories working with colleagues at Brown University.