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B61-13 first production unit completed ahead of schedule

June 16, 2025 • Two technologists at Sandia National Laboratories place the final screws in a B61-13 high-fidelity unit. The first production unit of the B61-13 was completed in May, about a year ahead of schedule.

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: defense military, national laboratories, national security, nuclear deterrence

Build-a-satellite program could fast track national security space missions

June 8, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Satellites equipped with remote sensing technology execute many critical national security missions, from detecting explosions to tracking sea ice, but until now it could take a team years to move from a concept to a deployable space system. Valhalla, a Python-based performance modeling framework developed at Sandia...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: high performance computing, national security, satellite, satellite constellation, satellite design, satellites, space

Thomas Bradshaw inspects a computer board

Redesigning radiation monitors at U.S. ports

September 9, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Every day at ports of entry, hundreds of thousands of vehicles and containers cross into the country. Since 9/11, all incoming vehicles and containers at land crossings, rail crossings, mail facilities and shipping terminals are scanned by Customs and B…

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Homeland security, national security, radiation portal monitor, RPM, threat detection

Sandia National Laboratories physicist Will Johnson demonstrates the potential capabilities of the new radiation portal monitor design.

Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab at Sandia bars none

May 25, 2021, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There’s a tiny hidden gem at Sandia National Laboratories that tests the strength and evaluates the impact properties of any solid natural or manmade material on the planet. From its humble beginnings as a small storage room, mechanical engineer Bo Song has built a singular Experimental Impact...

Categories: Materials Science, Military / Defense, Nonproliferation, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Drop-Hopkinson bar, global security, Hopkinson bar, impact mechanics, Kolsky bar, materials performance, materials science, materials testing, mechanical shock testing, national security, test facility

New director says Sandia will respond to whatever future brings

May 1, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will maintain its strong missions in nuclear deterrence, nonproliferation, energy, basic science and national security work for federal agencies, the labs’ new top leader said Monday.“I see those continuing,” Directo…

Categories: Operations / Budget

Topics: director, executive, mission, national security, WMD

Sandia honored for fighting Ebola, analyzing emerging biotechnologies

April 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The work of Sandia National Laboratories at the intersection of biology and national security, including lifesaving efforts during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, has been recognized by the Department of Energy. On April 11, Dmitri Kusnezov, chief scientist and senior adviser to the secretary of energy, visited Sandia...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: biodefense, biological threats, computer modeling, computer modeling and simulation, Department of Energy, DTRA, Ebola, International Biological Threat Reduction, national security, public health, secretary of energy, Secretary of Energy Appreciation Awards, transportation modeling

Paula Austin outside an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Nondestructive testing: Sandia looks inside composites

February 1, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researcher David Moore holds a rectangle of hard carbon composite material, smooth with a faint woven pattern on its surface. The sample shows normal wear and tear until he turns it over to reveal a circular impact mark with cracks radiating from it.The…

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: composites, materials science, national security, nondestructive, testing

Sandia National Laboratories technologist Andrew Lentfer passes a roller probe over a composite as researcher David Moore checks data on a screen. The nondestructive testing technique sends sound waves into the composite material, returning data with each swipe of the roller probe.

Techniques could create better material, design in high-consequence uses

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a table with sinuous legs resembling the twisting shape of an inverted swamp cypress trunk. Those flowing legs might make the table stronger, better able to handle whatever someone piles on it.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Topol…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, computer modeling and simulation, design, engineering, high-consequence uses, manufacturing, material properties, materials, national security, topology optimization

Sandia report draws lessons learned from ‘perfect heists’ for national security

August 19, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In 2003, the unthinkable happened at Belgium’s Antwerp Diamond Center. Thieves broke into its reputedly impenetrable vault and made off with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds, gold, cash and other valuables.[caption id="" align="ali…

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: national security, security