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DOE awards Sandia small business program and local veteran
June 25, 2024, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has once again awarded Sandia National Laboratories for its work helping small businesses. One of those businesses, owned by a disabled veteran, was also awarded for its extraordinary work. DOE Mentor of the Year Sandia’s small business Mentor-Protégé Program has been named as...
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DOE awards Sandia for helping boost small businesses
July 27, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia’s Mentor-Protégé Program has been named “Mentor of the Year” for the second year in a row by the Department of Energy’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. The DOE Awards Program has also named Sandia’s supply chain subcontract manager, Sofia Delgadillo-Marrufo, as Facility Management Contracting...
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Dedication, curiosity earn chemist DOE Early Career Research Award
July 8, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — After earning a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award, Krupa Ramasesha plans to launch an in-depth study of how interactions of nanoparticles with light drive chemistry — possibly the first step in helping the nation end its dependence on fossil fuels. “The goal of my work...
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700,000 submunitions demilitarized by Sandia-designed robotics system
February 21, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized, built and programmed by Sandia National Laboratories engineers.“This is by far the most co…
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Supercomputers receive funding to help predict, modify new materials
September 16, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) will invest $16 million over the next four years in supercomputer technology that will accelerate the design of new materials by combining theoretical and experimental efforts to create new validated codes. Sandia National Laboratories researcher Luke Shulenburger will head a team working...
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Luke Shulenburger

DOE aims to boost economy through national lab tech transfer
October 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is intensifying efforts to move technology developed at the national laboratories into the private sector to boost the economy and create jobs, says the acting director of the department’s new Office of Technology Transitions. “Tech transfer is a mission of the...
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Carbon sequestration research continues at Sandia Labs under Energy Department funds
September 15, 2014 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] The Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security, a project between Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Texas, Austin, the lead partner, studies the long-term geologic sequestration of carbon. (Graphic court…
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Tech transfer awards salute innovation, commercialization at Sandia Labs
August 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC is a nationwide network of more than 300 members that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies...
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Moly 99 reactor using Sandia design could lead to U.S. supply of isotope to track disease
June 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque startup company has licensed a Sandia National Laboratories technology that offers a way to make molybdenum-99, a key radioactive isotope needed for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine, in the United States. Known as moly 99, it is made in aging nuclear reactors outside the country,...
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DOE Early Career award won by Sandia researcher Stephanie Hansen
June 9, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A $2.5 million, five-year Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has been won by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Stephanie Hansen for her fundamental science proposal to improve existing atomic-scale models for high-energy-density matter. Thirty-five winners were chosen by peer...
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Stephanie Hansen

Albuquerque Academy team wins New Mexico Middle School Regional Science Bowl
March 2, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Students from Albuquerque Academy's Team 1 are headed to the U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C., after taking the top spot at the New Mexico Regional Middle School Science Bowl at Albuquerque Academy on Saturday, March…
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Sandia Labs revitalizes nuclear security infrastructure
February 21, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has completed $199 million in facilities construction and repair as part of an 11-year national effort to revitalize the physical infrastructure of nuclear security enterprise sites. The Facilities and Infrastructure Recapitalization Program (FIRP) was established in 2001 to reduce a long-standing backlog of deferred...
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Sandia’s Paul Hommert named FLC Laboratory Director of the Year
February 4, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Paul Hommert has been named 2013 Laboratory Director of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for his support of technology transfer activities at Sandia National Laboratories. The FLC said the award recognized the excellence of work during 2012 by Hommert, Sandia’s president and laboratories director,...
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Supercomputing on the XPRESS track
December 20, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the stratosphere of high-performance supercomputing, a team led by Sandia National Laboratories is designing an operating system that can handle the million trillion mathematical operations  per second of future exascale computers, and then create prototypes of several programming components. Called the XPRESS project (eXascale Programming Environment and...
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Primary Standards Laboratory: Sandia’s the word for precision measurements, calibrations
November 15, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You probably never gave roundness a thought.But when it’s crucial that something be really round, federal labs and agencies can turn to the Department of Energy’s Primary Standards Laboratory (PSL), operated by Sandia. The PSL is often the last word…
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Solar test facility upgrades complete, lead to better capabilities at Sandia for power industry
November 13, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="The Molten Salt Test Loop is the only test facility in the country that can provide real power plant conditions and collect data about the interactions of pressure, temperature and flow rates. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Cl…
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Molten Salt Test Loop

Experimental smart outlet brings flexibility, resiliency to grid architecture
February 27, 2012 • Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental “smart outlet” that autonomously measures, monitors and controls electrical loads with no connection to a centralized computer or system. The goal of the smart outlet and similar innovations is to make the power grid more distributed and intelligent, capable of reconfiguring itself as...
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Anthony Lentine with the smart outlet