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Big wins

October 26, 2026 • We get a look at how Sandia's Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation, or CAMINO, is helping meet the Labs' national security missions more quickly.

Categories: Materials Science, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: advanced manufacturing, CAMINO, Sandia, workforce development

Dual fellow accomplishes a first for Sandia

October 23, 2026 • Rekha Rao thrives on solving complex scientific problems.

Categories: Awards, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, computational mechanics, IACM, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories

October 6, 2026 • Allen Schnibben, a computer scientist, works at the SOHBRIT observatory at Sandia National Laboratories. The facility supports experiments and testing for Sandia’s Space Mission Program.

Categories: Space / Astronomy

Topics: national laboratories, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, satellite, space

Sandia Labs hits trifecta for 2026 Forbes lists

September 24, 2026 • Like most large companies, Sandia National Laboratories strives to provide a desirable, supportive workplace where employees can excel and advance professionally while receiving competitive salaries and benefits. Forbes recognized Sandia on three 2026 lists.

Categories: Awards, HR / Personnel, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, business, Sandia National Laboratories

Tight light helps quantum sensing get ready for the field

September 10, 2026 • Quantum sensing offers a potential solution to jammed satellite navigation signals. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are discovering ways to make these technologies smaller and tougher so they can be deployed in the field.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: atom interferometry, GPS-denied navigation, inertial sensing, quantum sensing

New analog memory may make smart devices even smarter

September 9, 2026 • Developed at Sandia, electrothermochemical random access memory chips are able to achieve 100 times higher precision than existing state of the art technology, potentially powering the next generation of electronics.

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computing, edge computing, electrothermochemical ram, etcram, processors, Sandia National Laboratories

Sounding rocket test helps design components for new weapon system

August 31, 2026 • A sounding rocket flight test is giving engineers at Sandia National Laboratories real-world reentry vibration data they can use to help drive nonnuclear component designs for the United States’ first new nuclear weapon under development in nearly 30 years.

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

Topics: nuclear deterrence, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia Science & Tech Park bringing new companies, higher-paying jobs

August 28, 2026 • The Sandia Science & Technology Park continues to expand its footprint and economic impact, bringing new companies and higher paying jobs to the Albuquerque area.

Categories: Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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

Sustaining deterrence

August 19, 2026 • The nuclear security enterprise, including Sandia, partnering with the U.S. Navy, completed the first production unit of the W76 Mark 4B reentry body nearly three months ahead of schedule.

Categories: Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: national laboratories, nuclear deterrence, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories

Teaching drones to play tag

August 18, 2026 • Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories recently used reinforcement learning, a kind of machine learning, to teach drones how to play a strategic version of the game.

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: LDRD

A man is snapping a new propeller onto a drone about the size of his hand.

Sandia conducts next-level test for secure transportation vehicle

August 17, 2026 • A semitrailer loaded with mock nuclear weapons slammed into a barrier, completing the second and final full-scale crash test of the Mobile Guardian Transporter. The next-generation system will carry nuclear weapons and other sensitive materials.

Categories: Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Transportation

Topics: national laboratories, nuclear deterrence, Sandia, secure transportation

Coffee and sunlight: a natural blend

August 3, 2026 • Sandia National Labs has teamed up with Michael Thomas Coffee in Albuquerque to use heat from a thermal testbed to roast coffee beans.

Categories: CRADA, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: coffee, CRADA, small business, solar energy

Sandia selected to lead six Genesis Mission projects, partner on 17 others

July 22, 2026 • The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Sandia National Laboratories to lead six projects and partner on 17 additional teams through the Genesis Mission.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: AI, artificial intelligence, award, Funding, Genesis, Genesis Mission, high-performance computing

Rapidly testing portable security systems

July 20, 2026 • Sandia leads an exercise to test rapidly deployable security systems for military applications and border security.

Categories: Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: national labs, physical security, portable security, Sandia National Laboratories

Crystal power: Magnetic field sensors for fusion research

July 14, 2026 • Crystals — whether in the form of gemstones, snowflakes or table salt — are undeniably beautiful. At Sandia National Laboratories, researchers are exploring a less aesthetic use for them: measuring intense magnetic fields in some of the harshest experimental environments in scie

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: fusion, LDRD

A green light shining through several objects, illuminating a small rectangular crystal.

A COMPASS for driving faster commercialization of lab technology

July 13, 2026 • America's national labs produce some of the most advanced science in the world, but turning discoveries into commercialized technologies can be a challenge.

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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

MAD³ manufacturing revolution

July 6, 2026 • When Sandia National Laboratories researchers Hojun Lim and David Montes de Oca Zapiain began working on software to accelerate materials simulations, they started with just an idea.

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

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

As data-center demand grows, Sandia advances AI controls to keep voltage steady in real time

July 1, 2026 • As artificial intelligence drives rapid growth in data centers, utilities are facing a new challenge: keeping voltage steady as electricity demand grows, shifts quickly and becomes harder to predict. As demand grows and more distributed energy resources such as batteries, rooftop

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: AI, distributed energy resource management, Distributed energy resources, grid, voltage

How scientists support planetary defense by reconstructing a fireball’s path using sound waves

June 30, 2026 • When a bright fireball streaked across the Alaska sky last spring, the usual tools scientists rely on to track such events — cameras and satellites — did not provide a detailed picture.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: asteroid, fireball, infrasound, meteorite, meteoroid, planetary defense, seismoacoustic

Setting standards

June 29, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories systems engineer Judi See said leading an effort to develop the human readiness level scale is one of the biggest achievements of her career. The scale was published in The American National Standards Institute.

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American National Standards Institute, human readiness level scales, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories

Aires Tide, a new concept for fast-tracked flight tests, to debut on National Mall

June 24, 2026 • This summer, Washington, DC, will get to see firsthand how advanced technologies are accelerating national security engineering. A new concept flight test vehicle called Aires Tide will be on display at the National Mall starting June 25.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

In the Mountain West, a quantum computing collaboration announces major results

June 17, 2026 • Sandia National Laboratories, home to the Department of Energy's longest running quantum computing program, and tech company Quantinuum published in Nature an assessment of Helios that establishes it as the company's largest and most reliable quantum computer to date.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Mining batteries, in a microwave

June 16, 2026 • Instead of letting old lithium-ion batteries pile up as waste, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a microwave-based process to recover and remake their cathodes, potentially turning spent batteries into a new domestic source of critical materials.

Categories: Chemistry, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: IP, LDRD

Fueling the quantum future, one teacher at a time

June 15, 2026, Media Advisory • The strangeness of quantum physics is being harnessed to revolutionize computing as we know it, and the annual QCaMP for Educators aims to ensure teachers have a front-row seat.

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

Topics: quantum, Sandia National Laboratories

40 years of inspiring youth — HMTech STEM program returns

June 8, 2026, Media Advisory • This summer, Sandia National Laboratories volunteers will return to the classroom to ignite students’ passion for STEM through the Hands-on Minds-on Technology Program, known as HMTech.

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Community / Education, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: education, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, students

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