Science / Technology / Engineering

September 29, 2004 • AMARILLO, TEXAS — Area news media are invited to a ceremony Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. marking the completion of construction of the new Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory (WETL) at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.

September 29, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known.

September 7, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories are helping the U.S. Navy create the next generation of aircraft carriers by reviewing and analyzing current Carrier Air Wing flight operations, maintenance, and...

September 1, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has restarted its operations involving Classified Removable Electronic Media (CREM).

August 4, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — While some 15,000 Livermore residents and visitors enjoyed barbecues, music, picnics, and other Fourth of July festivities, Sandia National Laboratories researchers and their counterparts at the City of Livermore Police Department (LPD) were using the...

July 28, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) celebrates its 10th anniversary on Thursday, July 29, with a series of speakers that reflect the Center’s international missions. (See speakers list below.)

July 16, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has located a floppy disk that had turned up missing in a recent inventory. The floppy disk, which had been marked classified, was found about 1 p.m. today (Friday). Sandia had reported the disk as missing June 30 in a wall-to-...

July 15, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is searching for a missing floppy disk that was marked classified.

June 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories’ Engineering Sciences Center, and its Fire Science and Technology Department, have established a collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA) with FM Global, a large-los...

June 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light — but potentially far more efficiently — has been developed in a joint project between the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.

June 10, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A dedication ceremony for the new Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) took place today on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore.

May 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories completed its third year of providing technical assistance to New Mexico small businesses last year through a tax credit passed by the New Mexico Legislature. Nearly 300 small businesses were assisted throughout New Mexico in 2003.

May 6, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as a basis for future technical collaborations at 11 a.m. May 11 at the UCCS...

May 3, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an effort to expand teaming efforts with the Native American community, Sandia has entered into a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED).

May 3, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jim Tegnelia, VP for Department of Defense Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, has been appointed chairman of the Army Science Board (ASB) for approximately two years.

April 30, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories’ dedicated its Joint Computational Engineering Laboratory (JCEL) this week.

April 22, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wish list for nanotechnologists might consist of a simple, inexpensive means — actually, any means at all — of self-assembling nanocrystals into robust orderly arrangements, like soup cans on a shelf or bricks in a wall, each separated from the next by an...

March 22, 2004 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have developed a high temperature, high strength structural support foam, TEPIC, that has proven to be an exceptionally versatile material for use as molded-to-shape..

March 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New construction is under way at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories on a $110 million, five-year program to revitalize the Laboratories’ large-scale test capabilities.

March 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Texas at Arlington, The University of Texas at Dallas, and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, all components of the University of ...

February 25, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A cooperative effort is underway between a group of Arab scientists and a U.S. national security lab to help rebuild key elements of Iraq’s scientific infrastructure.

February 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Within a year the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will be flying the smallest synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ever to be used for reconnaissance on near-model-airplane-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and...

February 10, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Small radioactive sealed sources, designed to provide useful tools for measurement and analysis in a variety of industry and laboratory settings, have moved from the beneficial category to the threatening category in the post 9/11 world. The Department of...

January 27, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have developed a new way of mimicking photosynthetic proteins to manipulate platinum at the nanoscale. The method has the potential of changing the...