Sandia National Laboratories

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Sandians prep students for solar high-altitude balloon launch

May 2, 2025, Media Advisory • Students from three Albuquerque schools are preparing to launch their solar high-altitude balloons into the stratosphere with the help of Sandia National Laboratories volunteers and the nonprofit, Science Heads.

Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, science heads, STEM

Sandia’s unique role in nuclear deterrence

April 22, 2025 • As lead systems integrator, Sandia National Laboratories plays a critical role in nuclear weapons, in close collaboration with our labs, plants and sites.

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: engineering, nuclear weapons, Sandia National Laboratories

Recycling products from the inside out

March 6, 2025 • What if plastics could self-destruct when their time as a useful product ends? Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are exploring this concept in one of their latest projects.

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Sandia National Laboratories

B61-12 system production ends, sustainment begins

February 24, 2025 • Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise have achieved a significant milestone for the nation’s nuclear deterrence program with the completion of the last production unit of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb.

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

Topics: defense, national laboratories, nuclear deterrence, nuclear weapons, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories

New Sandia R&D agreements reach levels not seen in three decades

December 9, 2024 • Sandia National Labs saw the highest number of new R&D agreements in 30 years in fiscal year 2024.

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

Topics: CRADAs, economic development, Sandia National Laboratories

American Chemical Society honors Sandia Labs scientist

May 8, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist Dorina Sava Gallis has been honored by the American Chemical Society with a 2024 Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award, recognizing her excellence in the scientific enterprise demonstrating outstanding promise for contributions to her field. In her 14 years at Sandia, Sava...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Topics: awards, chemistry, engineers, materials science, national laboratories, research, Sandia National Laboratories

National award goes to Sandia Labs engineer

January 17, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tony Garcia often reflects on his grandfather’s words: “Work hard and be good to people, and you’ll end up happy.” This simple principle has been Garcia’s beacon throughout his academic and professional journeys, and now has led to his recognition with a prestigious 2023 Society of Hispanic...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, community, diversity, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM

Sandia 2023 economic impact reaches record high

January 11, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ economic impact for fiscal year 2023 reached an all-time high of nearly $4.8 billion, which was $559 million more than in 2022. The impact is evident in the 1,200 new jobs added in the last year, the $114 million in gross receipts taxes paid...

Categories: HR / Personnel, Media advisories, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, community, diversity, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM

Society of Women Engineers celebrates Sandia employees

December 21, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Women engineers at Sandia National Laboratories achieved significant recognition in 2023 from the Society of Women Engineers. These accolades included Advocating Women in Engineering, Distinguished New Engineer and 10 patent recognition awards. SWE’s awards program celebrates high levels of achievement among individuals who identify as women and...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, diversity, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, Society of Women Engineers

Asian American Engineer of the Year goes to Sandia Labs computer scientist

October 26, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tian Ma, a distinguished computer engineer in research and development at Sandia National Laboratories, has been honored as a 2023 Asian American Engineer of the Year by the Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA. Each year, CIE recognizes exceptional Asian American engineers who demonstrate strong technical skills, leadership abilities...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, community, computing, diversity, national laboratories, national labs, research, Sandia National Laboratories

Cutting-edge complex

August 11, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories opened the doors August 7 to its new, cutting-edge Emergency Operations Center aimed at enhancing emergency incident management coordination and communications for the workforce and the community in the event of an emergency, disaster or crisis. The $42.5 million, 25,000-square-foot facility, located on Kirtland...

Categories: Community / Education, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget

Topics: business, community, emergency management, emergency preparedness, new construction, new facility, public safety, Sandia National Laboratories, workforce safety

Sandia work at the heart of next generation nuclear reactor

January 16, 2023 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A team of Sandia National Laboratories researchers working on the reactor at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility is testing materials to make the next generation of fusion reactors, in the quest to develop more carbon-free energy sources. These magnetic confinement fusion reactors, called tokamaks, use magnetic fields...

Categories: Materials Science

Topics: fusion reactors, materials, Nuclear energy, Sandia National Laboratories, tokamak

DOE funds pandemic tracking software

December 14, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — The Department of Energy has awarded $5 million to create tools to increase the nation’s level of preparedness for biological threats — including an infection rate tracking program for COVID-19 developed by a Sandia National Laboratories team in 2020. Jaideep Ray and Cosmin Safta developed an approach...

Categories: Computing

Topics: biothreat, computing, COVID-19, pandemic, Sandia National Laboratories

Propelling wind energy innovation

September 8, 2022 • [caption id="attachment_20521" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboartories’ Twistact technology proves beneficial in lowering costs, improving sustainability and reducing maintenance for next-generation direct-drive wind turbines. (Photo by Zhang Fengsheng…

Categories: Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: direct-drive wind turbines, electrical contact, renewable energy, rotary electrical contact, Sandia National Laboratories, technology transfer, twistact, wind energy, wind turbines

Sandia’s Twistact technology proves beneficial in lowering costs, improving sustainability and reducing maintenance for next-generation direct-drive wind turbines.

Pipelines for progress

August 23, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is sharpening its focus on select historically Black colleges and universities with its Securing Top Academic Research and Talent, or START, program. START builds academic partnerships that align with Sandia’s mission needs to fuel research collaboration and expose prospective underrepresented students to cutting-edge national...

Categories: Community / Education, HR / Personnel, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: business, diversity, national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM

Computer code may help speed up airport security

May 9, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Imagine moving through airport security without having to take off your shoes or belt or getting pulled aside while your flight boards — while keeping all the precautions that ensure the safety of passengers and flight crews. This is the challenge tackled by a team including researchers...

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: air travel safety, airport security, aviation, Sandia National Laboratories

Cycloalkanes a strong candidate for reducing aviation emissions

April 20, 2022 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have released data that could play an important role in the future development of cleaner and more sustainable aviation fuel.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories recently p…

Categories: Climate Security

Topics: aviation, bioenergy, bioenergy technologies, climate change, climate innovation, cycloalkane, jet fuel, national laboratories, o-ring, physical properties, Sandia National Laboratories, structure-property relationship, sustainability, sustainable aviation fuel

close-up rear view of airplane on tarmac

Black engineer awards distinguish Sandia Labs

February 28, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership, Science Spectrum Trailblazers and Modern-Day Technology Leaders. Honorees include Sandia mechanical, electrical, civil, aerospace and aeronautical engineers who excel in their respective fields. From the...

Categories: Awards, Computing, Cybersecurity, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: awards, community, computing, diversity, diversity and inclusion, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM

High-speed alloy creation might revolutionize hydrogen’s future

September 20, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists, with some international collaborators, have spent more than a year creating 12 new alloys — and modeling hundreds more — that demonstrate how machine learning can help accelerate the future of hydrogen energy by making it...

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Renewable energy

Topics: fuel cell, hydrogen, machine learning, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia gives awards, mentoring to local young women

June 3, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A three-decade tradition connecting young Bay Area and northern California high school students with accomplished scientists at Sandia National Laboratories was not stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. This spring, more than 70 students, parents, mentors and educators virtually attended the 30th Sandia Women’s Connection Math & Science...

Categories: Community / Education

Topics: community, girls, Math and Science Awards, Sandia National Laboratories, STEM

Sandia National Laboratories Associate Labs Director Andy McIlroy welcomes the more than 70 attendees of the 30th Sandia Women's Connection Math & Science Awards.

CRADAs, licenses lead to billions in economic impact since 2000

April 15, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cooperative Research and Development Agreements and patent license agreements between Sandia National Laboratories and outside partners led to billions in economic impact and supported tens of thousands of high-paying jobs every year for the last two decades, according to a recent study on national economic contributions. CRADAs...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, CRADA, economic impact, New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, NMSBA, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, tech transfer, techlink report, Technology Readiness Gross Receipts Tax Credit, technology transfer, TRGR

A song of ice and fiber

April 8, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers are beginning to analyze the first seafloor dataset from under Arctic sea ice using a novel method. They were able to capture ice quakes and transportation activities on the North Slope of Alaska while also monit…

Categories: Climate Security, Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: arctic, Arctic Ocean, climate change, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, fiber optic cable, North Slope, Quintillion, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories

Energy tech development for US, NM aim of Sandia and PNM partnership

September 21, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and New Mexico’s largest electricity provider, PNM, have teamed up to bring energy resiliency, security and stability to the state and country. “The partnership with PNM will address energy challenges not just in New Mexico but across the United States,” Sandia Labs Director James...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: artificial intelligence, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, energy conversion, energy storage, photovoltaics, PNM, PNM Resources, Sandia National Laboratories

High-performance computer facility at Sandia honored for sustainable building practices

September 16, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is being recognized by the Department of Energy and the Green Building Council for its efforts to support green and sustainable building and construction regarding a new data center addition to its high-performance computing facility. Recently, the facility was given the LEED Gold certification...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Green Builders, LEED, Sandia National Laboratories, sustainability

Water rushes through tubes and computer racks, providing a warm-water cooling system and keeping the high-performance computers from overheating at Sandia National Laboratories' newest data center.

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