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Veterans hired at Sandia Labs triples over past year

November 6, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The number of military veterans hired at Sandia tripled the last fiscal year, and marked the highest veteran hiring rate in the history of Sandia National Laboratories.As part of a broader laboratories recruiting strategy, Sandia engaged in a new delibe…

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: diversity, employment, military, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, veteran, veterans

New vice president appointed to oversee defense research at Sandia Labs

March 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — James Peery was appointed vice president for defense research to lead Sandia National Laboratories’ longstanding work in this national security area. Peery had been director of Sandia’s Information Systems Analysis Center and was responsible for the research and development of new information technologies for national security organizations....

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: computer science, defense, DoD, Gordon Bell, military, veterans, Wounded Warriors

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

2014 Rank Prize for envisioning strained-layer superlattices awarded to Sandia Fellow

April 22, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In 1982, then-Sandia National Laboratories researcher Gordon Osbourn published a theoretical paper that asserted the previously unthinkable: that ultra-thin layers of mismatched atomic lattices could overcome the strain of their union and successfully form a defect-free bond. Going against the grain of the times, Osbourn’s calculations stimulated...

Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: laser, materials science, military, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, Rank Prize, semiconductors, superlattices

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, C…

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.

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

Researching new detectors for chemical, biological threats

September 5, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists are thinking small, building on decades of sensor work to invent tiny detectors that can sniff out everything from explosives and biotoxins to smuggled humans.Their potential seems unlimited. The military needs to…

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Homeland security, military, national laboratories, Sandia, sensors

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

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

White House honors nurse for helping women veterans, children

April 29, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Michelle Racicot, a contract family nurse practitioner at Sandia National Laboratories, was one of 14 women recognized by first lady Michelle Obama at the White House as Champions of Change. The event during Women’s History Month honored women veterans who have made a major impact on the...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: awards, champions of change, community, military, nurse, veterans, women

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

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

Navy pilot training enhanced by AEMASE ‘smart machine’ developed at Sandia Labs

May 16, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new “smart machine” installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories’ Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced “amaze”) is being provided to the Navy as...

Categories: Computing, Military / Defense

Topics: cognitive modeling, computer, military, national laboratories, navy, Sandia, smart machine, software, training

Sandia’s self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away

January 30, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. (Click here for a video showing the prototype’s flight.) Sandia...

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

Topics: military, national laboratories, research, Sandia, tech transfer, war fighter

Sandia hopping robots to bolster troop capabilities

September 11, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by Sandia to develop the next generation of the Precision Urban Hopper, meaning Sandia‘s hopping robots may soon be in combat. When fully operational, the four-wheeled hopper robots will navigate...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: defense, Homeland security, military, robot, Robotic Vehicle, robotics, Urban Hopper, warfighter