ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is teaming with local hospitals and medical device manufacturers to increase the availability of respirator masks for health care workers. “We’re helping local medical device manufacturers test materials they are using to make medical-grade masks, and we’re helping local hospitals by evaluating methods they’ve developed to clean N95 masks […]
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Hospitals, manufacturers partner with Sandia amid high demand for medical-grade masks
June 22, 2020 – 5:00 am
Sandia stimulates marketplace recovery with free technology licenses
April 7, 2020 – 8:30 am
Update: Sandia has extended the Rapid Technology Deployment Program. Free licenses are now valid through June 30, 2021. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has announced a new, fast-track licensing program to rapidly deploy technology to a marketplace reeling from the effects of COVID-19. The move is designed to support businesses facing widespread, often technical […]
Sandia supports hypersonic flight test
March 24, 2020 – 10:07 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories employees and contractors saw their work culminate in a hypersonic flight test conducted by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army on March 19 at the Kauai Test Facility in Hawaii. The Navy and Army executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body, which flew at hypersonic speed to […]
Sandia Labs announces support for employees affected by COVID-19 closures
March 13, 2020 – 6:00 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has announced new temporary measures to support employees unable to work due to school and daycare closures announced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time, there are no confirmed nor presumptive cases of COVID-19 among Sandia employees. Sandia’s top priority is to keep employees, and by extension […]
Patient-friendly brain imager gets green light toward first prototype
March 10, 2020 – 9:41 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — It might not start a fashion trend, but Sandia National Laboratories is designing a wearable brain imager. The National Institutes of Health has granted Sandia $6 million to build the prototype medical device that would make magnetoencephalography (MEG) — a type of noninvasive brain scan — more comfortable, more accessible and potentially […]
Father, son bond over engineering a record-smashing roadster
March 2, 2020 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories manager Joel Wirth, a mechanical engineer by training, studied a problem with his car. The weight was too far back, making the car fishtail whenever he drove it faster than 200 mph. For the past eight years, he’s been working afterhours in his home garage with his crew chief […]
Award-winning engineer helps keep US nuclear deterrent safe from radiation
December 23, 2019 – 11:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When nuclear radiation hits electronics, it cuts through semiconductors, leaving scars of charged particles that can flip computing bits and corrupt memory circuits, potentially disabling devices or causing erratic errors. Experts like engineer Alan Mar ensure components made for the U.S. nuclear stockpile pass stringent standards to resist radiation and remain safe […]
National Hispanic science and engineering organization honors two Sandia researchers
October 22, 2019 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Materials scientist Nic Argibay and health and safety senior manager Rafael Gonzalez were honored at the 31st annual Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference by Great Minds in STEM, a nonprofit organization that recognizes Hispanic leadership and achievement in science, technology, engineering and math. Argibay received a Most Promising Scientist or Engineer […]
Hate to wait? Sandia looks to speed up climate research
October 17, 2019 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Presumably, Leonardo da Vinci could have saved a lot of time on his “Mona Lisa” if he had just slapped on two dots and a swoosh for a smiley face. But details take time. The same goes for running computer models and simulations. If you want oceans of calculations to study something […]
National security chip plant gets an upgrade
October 3, 2019 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has completed phase one of an anticipated three-year upgrade at its plant responsible for making integrated circuits, similar to computer chips. The facility is now fully compatible with industry-standard, 8-inch silicon wafers — thin, round starting materials used for making chips. Previously, Sandia used 6-inch wafers. Supporting the new […]
Autonomy New Mexico interns build drones to test hypersonic tech
September 27, 2019 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is developing autonomy and artificial intelligence for flight systems soaring at more than 3,800 mph. The technologies to get there will initially be tested on drones that shuffle around at about 5 mph. “We want to ensure success before we test technologies on hypersonic flights,” said Sandia manager Jay […]
HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money
August 30, 2019 – 10:55 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An early milestone for developing missile technologies is to show they can work in computer-simulations or large-scale field tests that shake and spin components without falling to pieces. “Screws can back out; things can break,” said Greg Tipton, a structural dynamics engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. Similar tests are performed in the […]
How a chicken farmer landed a job in cybersecurity
August 8, 2019 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Logan Carpenter teases his co-workers when they complain about work. Growing up in rural Madison County, Virginia, he worked on a chicken farm through high school and took up landscaping and painting jobs on the side. Tending poultry, performing menial labor for low wages, and being consumed daily by bugs and southern […]
Sandia Labs manufacturing spinoff steps into national market
July 29, 2019 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Joe Beck and Eric Branson’s business grew so fast it took them a year just to find time to put up a sign. “It’s since gone way beyond our expectations,” said Beck, president and CEO of Albuquerque-based Advanced Manufactured Power Solutions, or AMPS. The custom manufacturing company builds battery packs, cables and […]