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Adaptive zoom riflescope prototype has push-button magnification

October 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When an Army Special Forces officer-turned-engineer puts his mind to designing a military riflescope, he doesn’t forget the importance of creating something for the soldiers who will carry it that is easy to use, extremely accurate, light-weight and has long-lasting battery power. Sandia National Laboratories optical engineer...

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

Topics: adaptive zoom, assualt rifles, Department of Defense, military, rifle, riflescope, special forces, U.S. Army

IED detector developed by Sandia Labs being transferred to Army

June 26, 2014 • Copperhead Synthetic Aperture Radar system helps troops by detecting IEDs day or night, in any weather ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture radar (MiniSAR) system to do just that, some...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense

Topics: Army, defense, IEDs, JIEDDO, military, SAR, synthetic aperture radar

Sandia pair honored by Travis AFB for helping service members, families

March 12, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Two members of Sandia National Laboratories’ Military Support Committee (MSC) in Livermore, Calif., have been awarded a special commendation in recognition of their efforts to assist enlisted families in need at Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, Calif. The award ceremony took place March 8, with Brig....

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense

Topics: Air Force, basket brigade, military, veterans

Brig. Gen. John C. Flournoy Jr., second from left, presents a U.S. flag to Heather Egtervanwissekerke, to the left of the flag, and Michele Clark of Sandia National Laboratories' Military Support Committee at the 945th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Travis AFB.

Engineer honored for contributions to precision strike systems

December 4, 2013 • Advanced Hypersonic Weapon work caps Sandia Labs honoree’s career ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The chief engineer of Conventional Prompt Global Strike programs at Sandia National Laboratories has been honored with a national award for his outstanding contributions to precision strike systems. Gary Polansky, an engineer in Sandia’s Flight Systems department, won...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense

Topics: ahw, conventional prompt global strike, engineer, hypersonic, Precision Strike Association, university of texas, weapons

Plasmonic crystal alters to match light-frequency source

October 30, 2013 • A device like a photonic crystal, but smaller and tunable ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gems are known for the beauty of the light that passes through them. But it is the fixed atomic arrangements of these crystals that determine which light frequencies are permitted passage. Now a Sandia-led team has created...

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

Topics: crystal, metamaterials, photonic crystal, plasma, plasmonic

Hard cold work and unsung science heroes

October 21, 2013 • Data for climate simulations doesn’t come easy ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The Sierra went down over the Arctic Ocean, about 60 miles from the northernmost tip of North America. One moment the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with its 20-foot wingspan was up in the sky, gathering “hard” data over frozen terrain to...

Categories: Climate Change, Military / Defense

Topics: Air Force, Alaska, climate change, drones, NASA, UAVs

Sandia internship program serves up challenging national security work with a side of fun

October 17, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Keilan Jackson wanted real-world experience when he shopped for an internship for the summer of 2013. The Arizona State University computer science junior had completed other intern stints where his work was never put to use. From several options, he chose Sandia National Laboratories’ Technical Internships to...

Categories: Computing, Military / Defense

Topics: computing, cybersecurity, defense, education, engineers, Homeland security, internship, national laboratories, national labs, research, security, students, technology, training

Sandia wounded warriors discover they were united in battle years ago

July 11, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jason Shelton and John Bailon left a Sandia National Laboratories Military Support Committee meeting side by side, sharing stories of combat in Iraq. Bailon talked about a day in the summer of 2005 when his Marine unit was called to rescue a small Joint Special Operations team...

Categories: Homeland security, Military / Defense

Topics: battle, careers, defense, Homeland security, iraq, military, national laboratories, national labs, veterans, Wounded Warrior

Sandia wins three R&D 100 awards

July 8, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Army Ground Combat Systems adopts Sandia tool for choosing future warfighting vehicles

May 21, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine trying to solve this complex problem: You have to modernize a fleet of combat vehicles, such as tanks, tracked howitzers and infantry fighting vehicles, choosing from among more than 50 ways to update them to meet future threats. Each modernization option can be configured differently to...

Categories: Computing, Military / Defense

Physicist takes command of Air National Guard wing

May 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Clark Highstrete has walked two paths in his professional life. One went toward science and led to physics research at Sandia National Laboratories. The other went to the skies and a career as an Air Force pilot. Highstrete works in Sandia’s Quantum Information Sciences department and is...

Categories: Military / Defense, Operations / Budget

Topics: air national guard, Kirtland Air Force Base, military, physicist, wing commander

Fertilizer that fizzles in a homemade bomb could save lives around the world

April 23, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in...

Categories: Chemistry, Military / Defense, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: bomb, chemistry, defense, fertilizer, IEDs, improvised explosive device, JIEDDO, military, national laboratories, national labs, non-detonable, security, technology

Sandia airborne pods seek to trace nuclear bomb’s origins

January 9, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If a nuclear device were to unexpectedly detonate anywhere on Earth, the ensuing effort to find out who made the weapon probably would be led by aircraft rapidly collecting airborne radioactive particles for analysis. Relatively inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — equipped with radiation sensors and specialized...

Categories: Military / Defense, Nonproliferation

Topics: airborne, bombs, military, nuclear, pods, sensors, UAV, weapons

More than 400 rockets soar from Sandia’s Kauai Test Facility in 50-year history

December 17, 2012 • KAUAI, Hawaii — A white-orange oval, the rocket moves slowly, silently across the night sky, followed by a metallic roar that fades away the farther it flies from its launch pad at Sandia National Laboratories’ Kauai Test Facility. When the rocket is an orange ember against the black backdrop, it...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: Hawaii, Kauai, Kauai Test Facility, MDA, Missile Defense Agency, national laboratories, navy, Sandia

Sandia Labs helps wounded veterans onto the career track

December 4, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Combat veterans often return with wounds, some visible, some not. Sandia National Laboratories has launched a hiring program with the goal of helping those wounded warriors get into the workforce and develop career-based skills and experience. “We want to give back to those who have given so...

Categories: Community / Education, Military / Defense

Topics: careers, community, education, hiring, military, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, veterans, warfighter, warriors, wounded, Wounded Warrior

Traumatic brain injury patients, supercomputer simulations studied to improve helmets

November 14, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are comparing supercomputer simulations of blast waves on the brain with clinical studies of veterans suffering from mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) to help improve helmet designs. Paul Taylor and John Ludwigsen of Sandia’s Terminal Ballistics...

Categories: Military / Defense, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Northrop Grumman, GE partnerships tap wide range of Sandia Labs expertise

November 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has signed a pair of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that could broadly add to the Labs’ research into combustion, defense, energy and nuclear security. The umbrella CRADAs, which enable Sandia and its partners to pursue multiple projects in a variety of categories,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, combustion, CRADA, defense, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, partnership, research, Sandia, security, tech transfer, technology

National Hispanic engineering organization names Sandia manager Engineer of the Year

October 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A radar systems manager at Sandia National Laboratories who is committed to encouraging youths to pursue science and technology careers has been named 2012 Engineer of the Year by the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Steve Castillo, manager of Sandia’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget

Topics: HENAAC, Hispanic, national laboratories, Sandia

Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept

September 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Magnetically imploded tubes called liners, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific “break-even” energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests, according to a Sandia research paper accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters (PRL). To exceed scientific break-even is...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: beryllium, deuterium, energy, magnetic fields, nuclear fusion, simulations, tritium, Z accelerator, z machine

Sandia explosives legend Paul Cooper hangs up his teaching hat

August 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Paul Cooper, one of the world’s foremost explosives experts, retired from Sandia National Laboratories more than a decade ago but continued his labor of love, teaching a new generation of engineers everything they needed to know about blowing things up. Cooper taught explosives safety and technology to...

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

Topics: branch davidians, education, engineers, expert, explosives, materials science, national laboratories, oklahoma city, Sandia, training, twa 800, uss iowa

Lifelike, cost-effective robotic Sandia Hand can disable IEDs

August 15, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has developed a cost-effective robotic hand that can be used in disarming improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. The Sandia Hand addresses challenges that have prevented widespread adoption of other robotic hands, such as cost, durability, dexterity and modularity. “Current iterations of robotic hands can...

Categories: Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: robotics

“Toxic” political discussions limit climate response, says invited speaker at Sandia

August 14, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The inability of natural and social scientists to convince political leaders that “we’re spinning a roulette wheel over climate change” puts humanity at “extreme risk,” said Massachusetts Institute of Technology management professor Henry Jacoby, former co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of...

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate change, Heartland Institute, Kyoto, MIT, models

Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting

August 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers have reprised in the journal Energy Policy their groundbreaking finding that improvements in lighting — from candles to gas lamps to electric bulbs — historically have led to increased light consumption rather than lower overall energy use by society. In an article in the journal...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: economy, energy, laser diode, LED, light, national laboratories, productivity, Sandia

Sandia researcher Jeff Tsao examines the set-up used to test diode lasers as an alternative to LED lighting. Skeptics felt laser light would be too harsh to be acceptable. Research by Tsao and colleagues suggests the skeptics were wrong.

Predictions by climate models are flawed, says invited speaker at Sandia

July 25, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, a global warming skeptic, told about 70 Sandia researchers in June that too much is being made of climate change by researchers seeking government funding. He said their data and their methods did not support their claims. “Despite concerns over...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate, global warming, national laboratories, Sandia

Global warming unequivocal in its advance, says invited speaker at Sandia

July 24, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Global warming is unequivocal in its advance and will lead to more record-setting temperatures, said Warren M. Washington, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in the seventh lecture of Sandia National Laboratories’ Climate Change and National Security series. The talk was given in mid-May....

Categories: Awards, Biology, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

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