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HIRE Vets ranks Sandia Labs at top for employing military veterans

February 5, 2026 • For the fifth consecutive year, Sandia National Laboratories has earned the HIRE Vets Platinum Medallion Award — the U.S. Department of Labor’s highest designation — for its commitment to attracting, hiring and retaining veterans.

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel

Topics: awards, Sandia National Laboratories

Aiming to protect, with pinpoint precision

February 3, 2026 • A revolutionary patch to protect cancer patients and American warfighters was developed by a small team of Sandia National Laboratories researchers to be wearable, easily produced and disposable.

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: biodefense, cancer, medical, military, radiation, Sandia National Laboratories

Physicists employ AI labmates to supercharge LED light control

January 20, 2026 • A Sandia Labs paper published in Nature Communications shows how AI is advancing beyond a mere automation tool toward becoming a powerful engine for clear, comprehensible scientific discovery.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: artificial intelligence, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, machine learning, nanophotonics

Saaketh Desai and Prasad Iyer stand together in their lab

Making the nation safer with Sandia’s help

January 19, 2026 • The New Mexico Small Business Assistance program has helped small businesses for 25 years with support from Sandia National Laboratories and, since 2007, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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

Topics: economic impact, national labs, Sandia National Laboratories, small business, tech transfer

Students tackle food waste in Future City Competition

January 15, 2026, Media Advisory • Is there a future where food doesn’t go to waste? Where, from farm to table, the health of people and the planet are paramount? That is the future students are tasked with creating at the 2026 Future City Competition.

Categories: Community / Education, Energy / Environment / Water, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: education, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM education

Sandia’s economic impact sets record for 17th consecutive year

January 9, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories generated a record $5.2 billion in economic impact in 2025, marking the 17th consecutive year Sandia has set a new high, according to its annual economic impact report released this week.

Categories: Community / Education, HR / Personnel, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, national labs, Sandia National Laboratories, small business, tech transfer

Nature-inspired computers are shockingly good at math

January 7, 2026 • Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.

Categories: Computing

Sandia’s economic impact sets record for 17th consecutive year

January 5, 2026, Media Advisory • Sandia National Laboratories contributed more than $5.2 billion to the economy in 2025, setting a record for the 17th consecutive year.

Categories: HR / Personnel, Media advisories, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: economic impact, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, small business

NASA’s VIPER mission gets vital help from Sandia

December 17, 2025 • NASA’s VIPER rover, designed to map water on the moon, has reached another major milestone with help from Sandia National Laboratories and its one-of-a-kind testing capabilities.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: exploration, moon, NASA, national laboratories, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, VIPER

It is rocket science: New heat shields, faster

December 15, 2025 • A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials for hypersonic vehicles.

Categories: Materials Science, Military / Defense

Topics: LDRD

Kinetic careers: Sandia Labs engineers scoop up three national awards

December 9, 2025 • Science can be as dynamic as the researchers who explore it. The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers is recognizing three Sandia National Laboratories engineers who pushed beyond the boundaries of linear research to expand their knowledge and impact across multiple fields.

Categories: Awards

Topics: awards, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories

Not the largest supercomputer, but maybe the most interesting

December 8, 2025 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new kind of supercomputer has arrived at Sandia National Laboratories, and while it’s not the largest in the world, it may be one of the most unconventional.

Categories: Computing

Topics: National Nuclear Security Administration, supercomputer, Vanguard

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

September 18, 2025 • .

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.

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