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September 16, 1999 • SANDIA'S STEVE RODGERS (left) and Jeff Sniegowski look over a computer schematic of a five-level polysilicon surface micromachine.Download 300dpi JPEG image, 'fivelayer.jpg', 1Mb (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- A new advanced five-level polysilicon surface micromachining process pioneered at the Department of Energy's...

October 18, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- More than two hundred construction industry leaders, emergency management experts, government officials, and scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., later this month to explore how technology can make our homes, shopping malls, offices, public buildings, and infrastructures safer in a natural disaster or terrorist attack. The meeting...

April 17, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Networked sensors to detect the movement of hostile forces and materials — and longer-term approaches for changing the environment in which terrorism breeds — are being developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Long-term fixes also include new ideas for monitoring borders, materials, and agents. Immediate workIn the near...

May 1, 2002 • Images of a Sandia 3-D tungsten photonic crystal, taken by a scanning electron microscope. The images taken with and without oxide are shown in (a) and (b), respectively. The 1D tungsten rod-width is 1.2 microns, the rod-to-rod spacing is 4.2 microns, and the filling fraction of tungsten material is 28...

May 16, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and The United States-Mexico Foundation for Science have formalized a framework for joint development of the Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory concept to address economic development in the U.S. border region and Mexico. The framework is set forth in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in...

November 10, 1998 • New computational sorting record: (from left) Milt Clauser and Carl Diegert of Sandia, with Chris Nyberg (president, Ordinal Technology Corporation), and David Cossock (Compaq Computers) attend the world-record data speed-sort achieved by Sandia's Kudzu computer. Nyberg's company was the former world record holder.Download 150dpi JPEG image, 'kudzu.jpg', 1MB ALBUQUERQUE, N.M....

February 21, 2001 • O what a bumpy path they fly! — UNM students (and everything else) on the Sandia-backed NASA flight go weightless at the top of each arc — just enough time to perform a zero-gravity experiment and give their stomachs an experience to remember. The students will have 32 experiences of...

March 28, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some 275 experts representing the United Nations, NATO, and more than 40 countries will gather in Albuquerque April 20-22 to discuss the threat of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the policies required to control them. The focus of the 11th Annual International Arms Control Conference is...

April 4, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Although several outstanding electronic invoice solutions exist, a flexible standard for electronic invoicing that meets industry needs was not available until now. Rapid e-Invoice, the first XML (extensible markup language )-based standard for electronic invoicing via the Internet is now available for industry-wide use. With the help...

June 6, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A computer program that enables a collection of off-the-shelf desktop computers to rank among the world’s fastest supercomputers has been released to the public by Sandia National Laboratories. The program, called Cplant™ system software, dramatically extends the capability of researchers to modularly assemble large blocks of off-the-shelf...

July 19, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — RAMPART, software developed by Sandia National Laboratories that is the first risk-based approach to building management, may soon help the General Services Administration (GSA) assess the risks of terrorism, natural disasters and crime to the nearly 8,000 federal buildings it manages nationwide. GSA turned to Sandia, a...

August 28, 2000 • TINY CHEMICAL SAMPLING DEVICE — Sandia researcher Ron Manginell examines a superminiaturized preconcentrator used to collect sample gases for analysis.Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘precon.jpg’, 263K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A chemical sampling device smaller than the tip of a fingernail promises...

August 30, 2000 • 3-D DRAWINGS showing parts of an Archimedes-derived manufacturing sequence for a complex engine assembly, the result of a collaboration between Sandia and Cummins Engine Company. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A software tool developed at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories that automatically translates computer designs of complex products into assembly...

September 5, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and Boeing Company signed an umbrella Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) Sept. 5 to develop technologies that mutually benefit both. The signing was part of a visit to Sandia by Boeing senior officials to discuss future joint projects and to tour Sandia facilities....

November 6, 2001 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Oct. 2, 2001, six mentors, six protégés, and four business service advisors gathered for the kick-off of the 2001-2002 Sandia National Laboratories Office of Small Business Advocacy Mentor/Protégé Program. Sponsored by Sandia’s Office of Small Business Advocacy in collaboration with Sandia Supplier Relations, the new program...

February 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE/LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Homeland Security, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, is announcing a homeland security workshop for local, state and regional first responders. The workshop is open to all first responders, state and local officials, and other interested stakeholders. The workshop is...

April 30, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories’ dedicated its Joint Computational Engineering Laboratory (JCEL) this week. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham cut a ribbon signifying the facility’s official opening-for-business during a visit to Albuquerque on April 28. Abraham spoke at the ribbon-cutting event along with Sandia President...

May 3, 2004 • Jim TegneliaDownload 300dpi JPEG image, ‘tegnelia.jpg’, 720K (Media are welcome to download/publish this image with related news stories.) 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...

June 10, 2004 • Located at the heart of the Sandia/California site, and with portions of the building in both the classified limited area and the unclassified property protection area, the state-of-the-art Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) will be easily accessible to all people on site and to visitors. (Photo by Bud Pelletier)Download 300dpi JPEG...