ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are comparing supercomputer simulations of blast waves on the brain with clinical studies of veterans suffering from mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) to help improve helmet designs. Paul Taylor and John Ludwigsen of Sandia’s Terminal Ballistics Technology Department and Corey Ford, […]
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Traumatic brain injury patients, supercomputer simulations studied to improve helmets
November 14, 2012 – 9:39 am
National Hispanic engineering organization names Sandia manager Engineer of the Year
October 18, 2012 – 11:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A radar systems manager at Sandia National Laboratories who is committed to encouraging youths to pursue science and technology careers has been named 2012 Engineer of the Year by the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Steve Castillo, manager of Sandia’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems Engineering & Decision Support group, […]
Navy pilot training enhanced by AEMASE ‘smart machine’ developed at Sandia Labs
May 16, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new “smart machine” installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories’ Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced “amaze”) is being provided to the Navy as a component of flight simulators. […]
Sandia’s self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away
January 30, 2012 – 8:45 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. (Click here for a video showing the prototype’s flight.) Sandia researchers Red Jones and Brian […]
Sandia wins national awards for cutting water use 30 percent, pursuing other energy savings
October 24, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sandia National Laboratories has reduced its water use by 30 percent since 2008 and its energy intensity by more than 8 percent since 2005 in nationally recognized efforts to integrate sustainable planning and design into its operations and facilities. Three projects aimed at decreasing energy and water use at the national security […]
Solar glitter, rescue robot and university partnership earn Sandia technology transfer awards
October 4, 2011 – 8:57 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will begin researching how to use glitter-sized photovoltaic cells in utility-scale solar power systems, which eventually could cut the costs of solar panels in half and nearly double their efficiency. Sandia’s work with industry, other labs and universities to improve the design, materials and manufacturing processes of the Microsystems-Enabled […]
Sandia researchers use wind power expertise to help create U.S. industry for tidal, wave energy production
September 14, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A dearth of public information, complicated marine environments and even the corrosive effects of bubbles are among the challenges for companies trying to produce energy from river currents, tides and waves, but Sandia National Laboratories is working on solutions. Sandia is helping companies on the frontier of the coming marine hydrokinetics (MHK) industry […]
Sandia’s CANARY software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants, boosts quality
July 25, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software — an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — public […]
NMSBA program seeks groups of companies facing common challenges to receive technical assistance grants
June 13, 2011 – 6:00 am
The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) is looking for groups of small businesses facing common challenges that could use technical assistance from researchers at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. The NMSBA is soliciting initial proposals for 2012 leveraged projects, in which two or more small businesses to request assistance as a group. […]
New thermal battery manufacturing method to be industrialized under Sandia, ATB research agreement
June 1, 2011 – 11:45 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A new thin-film coating process for manufacturing thermal batteries used in nuclear weapons and other munitions that was invented at Sandia National Laboratories will be industrialized under a new corporate partnership with a Maryland company. The process could lead to create lighter batteries in a variety of shapes for future applications. A […]
Scientists’ ideas, businesses’ know-how spark innovation through New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program
April 7, 2011 – 10:51 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rod Dakan, owner of Royal Fiber Spinnery in Ruidoso, N.M., wanted an economical method of baling fleece from small, scattered alpaca herds for transport to the mills, so he turned to the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program for help. Royal Fiber was one of 339 small businesses in 27 counties […]
Sandia, Los Alamos labs to honor businesses’ innovations at New Mexico Small Business Assistance event
April 4, 2011 – 8:19 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A baler design that could economically bring alpaca fleece to market. A method to remove sediment from a northern New Mexico reservoir. An improved pesticide sprayer to reduce disease-carrying mosquitoes in the developing world. These are among the 10 projects by small companies that received technical assistance in 2010 through the New Mexico […]
Sandia named one of ‘New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers’
March 25, 2011 – 12:09 pm
Sandia Labs was named a winner in New Mexico Business Weekly’s New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers, an award that honors employers that support employee health and wellness. Sandia won in the large company category, for organizations with more than 1,500 employees. Linda Duffy, director of Sandia’s Health, Benefits and Employee Services, said she’s pleased that Sandia […]
Sandia wins 3 national technology transfer awards for bringing ideas, research to market
March 14, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A water blade that is disabling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan, software that detects water contamination or evidence of terrorists poisoning municipal water systems and a program that provides free technical assistance to New Mexico’s small businesses all have earned national awards for Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia will receive three 2011 […]
Sandia security experts help Kazakhstan safely transport, store Soviet-era bomb materials
February 8, 2011 – 4:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team helped reach a major milestone in the nation’s nuclear nonproliferation efforts by working with the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan to move nuclear materials — enough to build an estimated 775 nuclear weapons — to safety. Sandia provided security and logistics expertise to complete the transfer across […]