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Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue

November 19, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $2.3 billion worth of economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $89 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $12.9 million for the city of Albuquerque in the...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, business park, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, research park, Sandia Science & Technology Park, tech transfer

Sandia Labs plans partnership center to boost collaboration, tech transfer

October 3, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will pursue a Center for Collaboration and Commercialization to strengthen partnerships, technology transfer and ties to the community. The center, known as C3, will support the city of Albuquerque’s and the University of New Mexico’s Innovation District and Innovate ABQ initiatives. C3 will offer...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, community, economic development, economic impact, entrepreneurship, innovation, intellectual property, licensing, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, technology

Showcase to spur commercialization of Sandia technologies

September 16, 2014, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A showcase that brought Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology to the community the past two years has a new look and target audience. Instead of an annual daylong gathering open to the public, the re-envisioned Sandia Technology Showcase will become a yearlong series of events...

Categories: Media advisories, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, commercialization, economic development, economic impact, entrepreneurs, intellectual property, investors, IP, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology

New way to report purchases better shows how Sandia Labs spends money

August 18, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has changed the way it categorizes purchased goods and services by linking each acquisition to a specific industry code. “This change in our data systems allows Sandia to better describe to our stakeholders, customers and the general public how we spend our money,” said...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, economic impact, government contracting, minority owned, NAICS, national laboratories, national labs, procurement, small business, suppliers, woman owned

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...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, DOE, economic development, economic impact, flc, H2FIRST, Mantevo, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, renewable, research, technology, technology transfer

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,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, diagnostic imaging, DOE, economic development, economic impact, engineers, licensing, molybdenum-99, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear medicine, partnerships, radioisotopes, reactor, research, startup, tech transfer, technology

Scientists help entrepreneurs make business dreams come true

May 12, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bill Watts knows a thing or two about data-center computers. One is that they’re dangerous to move. “A server cabinet is 8 feet tall with 3,500 pounds of equipment,” he said. “If it starts to tip over, there’s no way you can stop it.” Watts, an Intel...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: assistance, awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, engineers, entrepreneurs, innovation, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Tech transfer program shares Sandia’s science, creates jobs for two decades

April 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For 20 years, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been able to leave to start or join small companies, knowing they can return. Their work has made a difference: creating jobs, bringing Sandia expertise into the private sector and boosting economic development, a new survey shows. “The Entrepreneurial...

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

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, engineers, entrepreneurship, national laboratories, national labs, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture

April 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper. Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, is commonly found in soils all over the world and can cause serious, and often fatal,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: anthrax detection, Aquila, BaDx, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, International Biological Threat Reduction, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Entrepreneur teams with Sandia scientists to bring life-saving vaccines to far reaches of the world

March 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Getting life-saving vaccines to the most remote parts of the world is no easy feat. Biopharmaceuticals are highly sensitive to heat and cold and can perish if their temperature shifts a few degrees. “The vast majority of the world’s population lives in areas where electricity and refrigeration...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Moving technologies from the lab to the marketplace

March 13, 2014, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Representatives from national labs, universities and business will gather for a Cleantech Open Business Briefing on March 18 at Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) to highlight how those entities are working together to develop clean technologies and take them into the marketplace. The Cleantech...

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: business, economic development, innovation, Swalwell, technology

Cargo security partnership takes home national tech transfer award

March 10, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and two collaborators won the national Federal Laboratory Consortium’s 2014 Interagency Partnership Award. The award recognizes agency and/or laboratory employees from at least two organizations who together did outstanding work in transferring technology. The winning partnership included Sandia, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems...

Categories: Awards, Homeland security, Technology transfer / Economic Impact, Transportation

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, defense, economic development, economic impact, engineers, flc, Homeland security, military, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer

Economic impact report spotlights Sandia’s commitment to business

February 24, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $975 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2013 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $420 million, or 43 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received nearly $500 million in...

Categories: Community / Education, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, diversity, economic development, economic impact, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, report, small business

Agreement lets Sandia, UNM staff work side-by-side

February 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has launched a new kind of collaboration designed to strengthen its research bonds with the University of New Mexico (UNM). “This is another sign of the close and deepening partnership between two of the pre-eminent research institutions in the state,” Sandia Vice President and...

Categories: Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology, University of New Mexico, unm

Sandia Labs wins five regional FLC tech transfer awards

October 24, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won five regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions gave Outstanding and Notable Technology Development awards to Sandia’s: SpinDx medical diagnostic tool; Sandia Cooler, which reduces energy to cool...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, flc, Homeland security, medical, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, tech transfer, technology

Sandia showcase shines a light on research and tech transfer

September 4, 2013, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will again take its cutting-edge research and technology to the community at a daylong event that will also spotlight intellectual property and how to do business with the labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs. The second annual Sandia Research &...

Categories: Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, community, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, research, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology

Ready-to-sign license speeds up Sandia tech transfer

July 29, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is building a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) that can be licensed by businesses in as little as an hour. “This is the simplest process possible,” said Sandia business development specialist Bob Westervelt, who helped create the ready-to-sign licensing program that businesses can access...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, national labs, partnerships, small business, tech transfer, technology licensing

Scientists team with entrepreneurs to make business happen

May 2, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hurricane Katrina whipped up huge, powerful waves that caused severe destruction in 2005 along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. The size and strength of the waves convinced Phil Kithil of Santa Fe there had to be a way to harness that energy. His invention of a...

Categories: Awards, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, NMSBA, partnerships, research, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia researchers bring lab experience to world of business

March 28, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three Sandia National Laboratories workers were recognized for taking technology out of the labs and into the private sector. Laurence Brown, Matt Donnelly and Jim Pacheco received Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards for their participation in a Sandia program that encourages researchers to take jobs at startup or expanding...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, community, economic development, energy, engineers, entrepreneur, materials science, materirals science, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology

Caterpillar, Sandia CRADA opens door to multiple research projects

March 26, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and industrial giant Caterpillar Inc. have signed their first umbrella Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA), opening the door to a wide range of scientific research. “This agreement will lead to an expanded relationship with Caterpillar,” said Vic Weiss, the Sandia business development specialist...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, computer, computing, CRADA, economic development, national laboratories, national labs, partnership, research, Sandia, tech transfer, technology

Sandia awards information technology contracts to three firms

February 13, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has issued three information technology contracts totaling $353 million over a potential term of seven years. The awards streamline IT contracting at the labs. “These contracts replace current IT contracts that are expiring,” said Chris Slater of the Sandia Procurement group. “We are integrating...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Operations / Budget

Topics: business, computer, computing, contracts, economic development, economic impact, information, IT, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business, technology

Disabled kids inspire musical instrument anyone can play

February 6, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Not everyone can play music. You need timing and rhythm, an ear for pitch and notes and an ability to interpret sheet music and symbols. You need physical coordination to apply those talents plus control of lungs, lips, arms and fingers to match the mec…

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

Topics: business, collaboration, computing, economic development, education, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, NMSBA, partnerships, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

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,...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, director, DOE, economic development, flc, national laboratories, national labs, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

Report spotlights Sandia’s impact on New Mexico economy

February 1, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $900 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2012 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $400 million, or 45 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received $472.7 million in Sandia...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, economic impact, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, small business

Sandia helps DOE bring large-scale solar systems to market

November 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is advancing viable, low-carbon power through collaborating on five U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs) where industry can assess the performance, reliability and bankability of large-scale photovoltaic energy systems. “With the trend in the solar industry toward larger systems and greater capital investment – substantial...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, power, PV, renewable, research, Sandia, solar, testing

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