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Quantum computers get a boost from a tiny material tweak

December 3, 2025 • A small, counterintuitive tweak to advanced materials can improve how quantum computers hand off information inside their systems, making them more efficient, reliable and scalable.

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Energy Frontier Research Center, quantum information science, semiconductors, µ-ATOMS

Predicting the (un)knowable

November 18, 2025 • Much is still unknown about how quantum computers behave and what they might one day help humans achieve. But a team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a process to understand how to use quantum systems more efficiently — using the analogy of a simple jukebox.

Categories: Computing

Topics: computing, machine learning, quantum computers, quantum computing, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia incorporates AI into New Mexico Electric Car Challenge

November 14, 2025, Media Advisory • New Mexico middle school students will once again experience the thrill of building their own electric cars as part of the annual New Mexico Electric Car Challenge.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Space-based nuclear detonation detection mission endures

September 22, 2025 • The Global Burst Detection system, developed by Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, carries a suite of sensors and instruments capable of identifying signals from nuclear detonations and providing real-time information to the U.S. military and government.

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: GPS, LDRD, Nuclear detonation detection, United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System

Sandia team creates X-ray images of the future

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Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Protecting the grid with artificial intelligence

September 8, 2025 • Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed brain-inspired AI algorithms that detect physical problems, cyberattacks and both at the same time within the grid.

Categories: Computing, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: LDRD

Two men sit at a laptop with solar panels behind them. One man is connecting a device the size of a pack of cards to the laptop.

Sandia’s Small Business team honored again by DOE

August 7, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories' Mentor-Protégé Program and its leadership have once again been recognized by the Department of Energy for their success in helping small businesses grow.

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: construction, economic impact, mentor protege, Sandia National Laboratories, small business

Cybersecurity suite that helps protect nation now available to public

August 1, 2025 • A cybersecurity platform developed at Sandia National Laboratories to detect and analyze advanced malware threats is now publicly available.

Categories: Cybersecurity, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cisa, cybersecurity, hackers, malware, Sandia National Laboratories

Two-factor authentication just got easier

July 30, 2025 • A new, simpler version of two-factor authentication could broaden its protection to many smart devices that currently cannot support it.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Asteroid hunting using heliostats?

July 29, 2025 • John Sandusky, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into electricity, to work in the dark.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: Laboratory Directed Research and Development, national laboratories, Sandia, space, technology

Sandia brings extended reality technology to Explora

July 18, 2025, Media Advisory • Explora visitors can step into the world of augmented, virtual and mixed reality during a special event presented by Sandia National Laboratories on July 23.

Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: community involvement, Community Outreach, education, Sandia National Laboratories

Storage where you need it

July 15, 2025 • A team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a mobile, high-security vault that can be rapidly deployed to safeguard critical materials in remote or temporary locations.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Two technologists weld the Mobile Vault frame to the exterior Conex container while an engineer performs a 3D scan of the vault.

Inspiring the next generation of microelectronics experts

June 25, 2025 • Sandia provides hands-on experience for U.S. students in critical, growing area,

Categories: Community / Education, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

A man in personal protective gear adjusts a machine while talking with a student on a computer screen.

Quantum Bootcamp

June 23, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories and Central New Mexico Community College are partnering to create a training program to bolster the number of quantum technicians in the state.

Categories: Community / Education, Computing, CRADA, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: CRADA, national laboratories, national labs, technicians, training

Nuclear deterrence expert picked to lead Sandia’s California site

June 16, 2025, Media Advisory • Sandia National Laboratories has selected nuclear deterrence expert Toby Townsend to lead its California campus, effective immediately.

Categories: HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: California, Livermore, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, Toby Townsend

B61-13 first production unit completed ahead of schedule

June 16, 2025 • Two technologists at Sandia National Laboratories place the final screws in a B61-13 high-fidelity unit. The first production unit of the B61-13 was completed in May, about a year ahead of schedule.

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: defense military, national laboratories, national security, nuclear deterrence

Sandia to help propel US semiconductor manufacturing

June 12, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

Categories: Computing, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: CHIPS and Science Act, computer chips, NSTC, Sandia National Laboratories, semiconductors, tech transfer

Sandia National Labs helps save taxpayers millions through smarter spending

May 12, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories has helped save $439 million for the Department of Energy as part of the Supply Chain Management Center program. That’s more than any other DOE or National Nuclear Security Administration site.

Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: budget, DOE, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia Labs’ new director to discuss outlook and future economic impact

May 5, 2025, Media Advisory • Laura J. McGill, Sandia National Laboratories’ new director, will meet with members of the media on Wednesday, May 14, to discuss her outlook for the nation’s premier engineering laboratory.

Categories: Media advisories, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: director, economic impact, Laura McGill

Sandians prep students for solar high-altitude balloon launch

May 2, 2025, Media Advisory • Students from three Albuquerque schools are preparing to launch their solar high-altitude balloons into the stratosphere with the help of Sandia National Laboratories volunteers and the nonprofit, Science Heads.

Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, science heads, STEM

Swift IT service with a smile

April 30, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories employees can bring an unclassified laptop in the Albuquerque area to one of the two Swift IT Bar locations for in-person assistance.

Categories: Computing, Operations / Budget

Topics: corporate computing help desk, corporate IT, information technology

A man and a woman stand beside a laptop, looking at a tiny item in the woman's hand.

Designing long-duration toxin sensors

April 23, 2025 • Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have spent the last three years developing an ultra-low-power chemical sensor to detect sarin and other chemical warfare agents or gaseous industrial toxins, aiming to protect the public and warfighters.

Categories: Chemistry, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: chemical detection, LDRD, low-power electronics, sarin

A woman in a blue lab coat grabs a tiny device with tweezers.

Sandia’s unique role in nuclear deterrence

April 22, 2025 • As lead systems integrator, Sandia National Laboratories plays a critical role in nuclear weapons, in close collaboration with our labs, plants and sites.

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: engineering, nuclear weapons, Sandia National Laboratories

Innovation is motivation

April 17, 2025 • Hongyou Fan has been named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for his outstanding innovation and work in tech transfer.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Catch me if you can? Check.

April 14, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories is helping defend deployed troops and the nation against hypersonic threats.

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: hypersonic weapons, missile defense, Missile Defense Agency

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