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Sandia awarded for outstanding work in technology transfer
February 8, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One of Sandia National Laboratories’ core missions is to help the world through innovation. However, transferring some of that innovation from the Labs to industry isn’t always an easy process. Through hard work and ingenuity, some Sandia employees are excelling at moving technology to market, a feat...
Categories: Awards, Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Coronavirus, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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A more holistic and efficient way of testing PPE
August 2, 2023, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a faster and more comprehensive way of testing personal protective equipment, or PPE. The basic principle: modeling a device to fit the human form and human behavior. When COVID-19 hit, PPE testing became an urgent need. In March 2020,...
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Great Minds in STEM celebrates two Sandia engineers
January 31, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories systems engineer Kenneth Armijo has been named a 2021 Most Promising Engineer Advanced Degree at the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference. Sandia mechanical engineer Michael Omana was named a 2021 Most Promising Scientist, Masters at the conference. Armijo, who holds a doctorate in...
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Sandia Labs wins seven R&D 100 Awards and two specialty honors
December 1, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, inventions from Sandia National Laboratories captured seven R&D 100 Awards (one in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) this year, as well as two special awards for green technology and corporate responsibility. Independent panels of...
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Simulating sneezes and coughs to show how COVID-19 spreads
May 11, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two groups of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have published papers on the droplets of liquid sprayed by coughs or sneezes and how far they can travel under different conditions. Both teams used Sandia’s decades of experience with advanced computer simulations studying how liquids and gases move...
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Reusable respirator could ease COVID-19 medical mask shortages
April 1, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Many medical professionals and other essential, front-line workers have struggled for the past year with persistent shortages of N95 masks. Soon, they might get relief from a Sandia National Laboratories invention — a comfortable, reusable, sterilizable respirator that could ease demand during current or future health crises....
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Search and rescue volunteers from Sandia respond to wilderness misadventures
March 1, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By day, Craig Tenney is a chemical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. But sometimes as he readies for bed, he gets a call and instead finds himself on an icy trail, mere feet from a cliff high above the city in the Sandia Mountains rescuing a couple...
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Foregrounds: Pine trees and rocks, with three small figures climbing down a cliffside. Background: the lights of Albuquerque at night.

Flight tests to show B61-12 will work on Air Force’s newest fighter jet
November 23, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A mock B61-12’s strike in the dusty Nevada desert successfully completed the first in a series of flight tests with the U.S. Air Force’s newest fighter jet, demonstrating the bomb’s first release from an internal bomb bay at greater than the speed of sound. The flight test...
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An F-35A drops a B61-12 over Sandia's Tonopah Test Range.

Sandia secures six regional technology transfer awards
November 18, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For responding with innovative solutions during the pandemic, developing solar cell and hydrogen research technology, and creatively working with companies, Sandia National Laboratories won six prestigious regional 2020 Federal Laboratory Consortium awa…
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Virtual support from Sandia enabled B61-12 flight test on F-35A jet fighter
November 9, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Overcoming COVID-19 pandemic challenges through virtual means, teams from Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Air Force under the guidance of the National Nuclear Security Administration performed a critical B61-12 flight test aboard the F-35A Lightning II jet fighter. The flight test at Edwards Air Force Base...
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Successful crash test meets major milestone for nuclear deterrence program
October 8, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A full-scale crash test involving a semitruck impacting the side of the first prototype of a new weapons transporter successfully took place at Sandia National Laboratories this summer. Using the labs’ sled track, rockets propelled the semitractor-trailer at highway speeds into the prototype, an over-the-road Mobile Guardian...
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Sandia helps safeguard biological data threatened during COVID-19 pandemic
October 6, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright LLC to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the United States and others issued warnings that hackers were using the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their activities. “In the past decade,...
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Helping protect medical professionals
August 5, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A media comprised of a sandwich of materials, tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities. The project originated from the urgent need for personal protective equipment when the COVID-19 outbreak began. “I can almost assure...
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Finding COVID-19 needles in a coronavirus haystack
July 14, 2020, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — COVID-19 researchers the world over face a daunting task of sifting through tens of thousands of existing coronavirus studies, looking for commonalities or data that might help in their urgent biomedical investigations. To accelerate the filtering of relevant information, Sandia National Laboratories has assembled a combination of...
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Keeping medical workers safe while collecting patient samples during COVID-19
July 6, 2020, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is offering free-of-charge the design and complete instruction manual for building a low-cost, drive-up outdoor shelter that shields healthcare workers conducting COVID-19 testing on its licensing and technology transfer website. Dr. Cody Saxton of Sandia’s medical team said that when a patient is swabbed...
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Sandia researchers use public data to forecast new coronavirus cases
June 30, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Global data networks that connect people through their devices have made it possible to create accurate short-term forecasts of new COVID-19 cases, using a method pioneered by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Jaideep Ray and Cosmin Safta used a model developed by Ray more than a...
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Hospitals, manufacturers partner with Sandia amid high demand for medical-grade masks
June 22, 2020 • 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...
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Teens pay it forward, use 3D printers built at Sandia to make face shields
May 15, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Teens who built 3D printers during a weeklong robotics camp at Sandia National Laboratories last year have used them to make more than 3,000 face shields that have been donated to medical professionals and first responders in New Mexico. The camp was hosted by Sandia in collaboration...
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Sandia Labs collects $245,000 for Native American neighbors
May 11, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As COVID-19 began ravaging Native American communities in the Southwest last month, a sense of urgency was mounting for Sandia National Laboratories tribal government relations program manager Laurence Brown. As the virus spread rapidly in parts of the Navajo Nation and New Mexico pueblos, a groundswell of...
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Photo of Sandia employees and Navajo Nation dance group Native American Heritage Month in November 2017.

Sandia tests distillery’s hand sanitizer developed to address severe shortage
May 7, 2020, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Distillery-developed hand sanitizer is leaving a New Mexico warehouse as quickly as it disappeared from grocery stores after Sandia National Laboratories helped confirm the product meets all federal requirements for distribution. In response to the severe, widespread shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wayward Sons Craft-Distillery in Santa...
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Sandia scientists search for genetic bullet to battle COVID-19
April 29, 2020 • LIVERMORE, Calf. — Two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are using genetic resequencing tools to find a way to stop the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks. Biochemist Joe Schoeniger and virologist Oscar Negrete are working on genetically engineering a deployable antiviral countermeasure for COVID-19 using CRISPR-based technology. “The goal is...
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Sandia National Laboratories is researching genetic editing to find a countermeasure for COVID-19.

Sandia-designed kits increase amount, type of breathing machines available for COVID-19
April 23, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In less than a month, Sandia National Laboratories converted 100 respiratory machines New Mexico hospitals already had on hand into machines that can safely be used as ventilators to help treat patients with severe cases of COVID-19. Non-invasive ventilators that use masks instead of tubes, BiPAP and...
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Sandia stimulates marketplace recovery with free technology licenses
April 7, 2020, Media Advisory • 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 challenges resulting from the pandemic. “In light of the national emergency, we’re making...
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