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Better monitoring and diagnostics tackle algae biofuel pond crash problem

April 9, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Sandia National Laboratories is developing a suite of complementary technologies to help the emerging algae industry detect and quickly recover from algal pond crashes, an obstacle to large-scale algae cultivation for future biofuels. The research, which focuses on monitoring and diagnosing algal pond health, draws upon Sandia’s longstanding...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: algal ponds, biofuel, national laboratories, Sandia

New instrument will quickly detect botulinum, ricin, other biothreat agents

April 2, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a medical instrument that will be able to quickly detect a suite of biothreat agents, including anthrax, ricin, botulinum, shiga and SEB toxin. The device, once developed, approved by the Food and Drug Administration and commercialized, would most likely be used...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: biothreat, National Institutes of Health, national laboratories, Sandia, toxin

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 Cyber Research Lab formally opens in stressful times

March 14, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An unusual urgency underlay the brief speeches noting the formal opening of Sandia’s Cyber Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) last month. A warning of “malicious cyber activity,” sent out one day earlier by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, accompanied a growing flood of news releases...

Categories: Computing, Homeland security

Topics: CERL, computer security, Cray, cyber, Cyber engineering research laboratory, cybersecurity, Sandia, Web

Prestigious award lights up Tsao’s wide-ranging career

March 12, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Jeff Tsao has seen it all in his 29-year Sandia National Laboratories career, from research to management to entrepreneurship. But being an idea guy is what he likes best. “It’s what I naturally gravitate toward,” Tsao said.Tsao is a researcher in…

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: aaeoy, asian-american, awards, energy, engineers, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia

Sandia’s new fiber optic network is world’s largest

February 28, 2013 • Fiber optic network saves energy, moneyALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has become a pioneer in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber optical local area network in the world.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="S…

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: computing, fiber optics network, national laboratories, Sandia, technology, Tellabs

Black engineers get national awards for reaching beyond the expected

February 26, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Three Sandia National Laboratories staff members who share a commitment to quality and diversity are winners of 2013 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) awards. J. Anthony Wingate, manager of Subsystems and Component Quality Engineering, was named Professional Engineer of the Year for Diversity Leadership. Dennis Owens,...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget

Topics: african american, awards, BEYA, diversity, engineers, National Engineers Week, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia

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...

Categories: Operations / Budget

Topics: DOE, facilities, FIRP, infrastructure, maintenance, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, repair, Sandia, security

Cool Earth Solar and Sandia team up in first-ever public-private partnership on Open Campus

February 20, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— In a public-private partnership that takes full advantage of the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) for the first time, Sandia National Laboratories and Cool Earth Solar have signed an agreement that could make solar energy more affordable and accessible. The five-year Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) calls...

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

Topics: Cool Earth Solar, energy, LVOC, national laboratories, Sandia, solar

Keeping tabs on the world’s dangerous chemicals

February 15, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In the chemistry labs of the developing world, it’s not uncommon to find containers, forgotten on shelves, with only vague clues to their origins. The label, if there is one, is rubbed away.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia…

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Conferences / Symposia, Homeland security, Operations / Budget

Topics: AAAS, American Chemical Society, chemistry, national laboratories, Sandia, women in STEM

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

Sandia researcher looks for bad guys in cyberspace

February 11, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The weakest link in many computer networks is a gullible human. With that in mind, Sandia National Laboratories computer science researcher Jeremy Wendt wants to figure out how to recognize potential targets of nefarious emails and put them on their guard. His goal is to reduce the...

Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cybersecurity, national laboratories, Sandia

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

Sandia Labs tops $5.5 million in United Way donations

February 4, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2012 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 17.1 percent over the previous year, giving $5,508,717 to the charitable organization. When it passed the $5 million mark, Sandia became the first company to donate that amount...

Categories: Community / Education, Operations / Budget

Topics: charitable, community, donations, economic impact, education, involvement, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, United Way

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

Study rebuts hypothesis that comet attacks ended 13,000-year-old Clovis culture

January 30, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rebutting a speculative hypothesis that comet explosions changed Earth’s climate sufficiently to end the Clovis culture in North America about 13,000 years ago, Sandia lead author Mark Boslough and researchers from 14 academic institutions assert that other explanations must be found for the apparent disappearance. “There’s no...

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

Topics: American Geophysical Union, asteroid, climate change, Clovis, comet, culture, Geoscience, green glass, national laboratories, Sandia, simulations, Tunguska

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...

Categories: Computing

Topics: DOE, exascale, operating system, parallel processing, programming, Sandia, scalability, supercomputing, XPRESS

Sustainability push unites Sandia facilities and research

December 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has launched a Sustainability Innovation Foundry that combines labs-wide resource conservation with efforts to turn research in fields related to sustainability into business opportunities. “Sandia has experience on the facilities side and a tremendous wealth of knowledge on the R&D side,” said Jack Mizner,...

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

Topics: business, climate, energy, facilities, green, national laboratories, national labs, renewable, research, Sandia, sustainability, tech transfer, technology

More than 400 rockets soar from Sandia’s Kauai Test Facility in 50-year history

December 17, 2012 • KAUAI, Hawaii — A white-orange oval, the rocket moves slowly, silently across the night sky, followed by a metallic roar that fades away the farther it flies from its launch pad at Sandia National Laboratories’ Kauai Test Facility. When the rocket is an orange ember against the black backdrop, it...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: Hawaii, Kauai, Kauai Test Facility, MDA, Missile Defense Agency, national laboratories, navy, Sandia

Detecting tunnels using seismic waves not as simple as it sounds

December 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You’d think it would be easy to use seismic waves to find tunnels dug by smugglers of drugs, weapons or people. You’d be wrong. Nedra Bonal of Sandia’s geophysics and atmospheric sciences organization is nearing the end of a two-year study, “Improving Shallow Tunnel Detection From Surface...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Border Patrol, Geoscience, national laboratories, research, Sandia, security, tunnels

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

Sandia physicist wins two national awards

November 29, 2012 • Albuquerque, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories senior manager Mark Herrmann has garnered two national awards for his work in high-energy-density science. In September, the American Physical Society elected him a Fellow, an honor limited to 0.5 percent of the society’s membership in any given year. The citation, formally presented at...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Physical Society, fusion, inertial fusion, national laboratories, Sandia, z machine

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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