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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

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

Northrop Grumman, GE partnerships tap wide range of Sandia Labs expertise

November 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has signed a pair of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that could broadly add to the Labs’ research into combustion, defense, energy and nuclear security. The umbrella CRADAs, which enable Sandia and its partners to pursue multiple projects in a variety of categories,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, combustion, CRADA, defense, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, partnership, research, Sandia, security, tech transfer, technology

Four technology transfer awards go to Sandia Labs

October 22, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Sandia’s efforts to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regional awards recognized Sandia’s technology transfer work with crystalline silico-titanates (CSTs), biomimetic membranes, the i-Gate Innovation Hub and DAKOTA software. “It...

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

Topics: awards, business, chemistry, computer, computing, economic development, economic impact, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

First Sandia tech showcase shines a light on research, business

September 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology will be on display next week at a daylong event. Tips on intellectual property issues and on how to do business with the Labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs also will be featured at the first...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, cybersecurity, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

Labs small-business assistance program named Manufacturing Advocate of the Year

July 13, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program has received the 2012 Manufacturing Advocate of the Year award from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The MEP award recognized the program’s “commitment to the business growth and transformation of U.S.-based manufacturing through...

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

Topics: awards, collaboration, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun

July 3, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When Alex Maish was a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the early 1980s, he had a pet project, a low-cost, high-precision way to continuously move solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy. By the early 1990s the technology was ready...

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

Topics: business, energy, national laboratories, national labs, power, renewable, research, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology, tracking

Innovation Celebration spotlights teamwork between science and business

May 1, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A kick in the teeth got Delano Romero thinking about mouth guards. An Albuquerque martial artist, Romero was sparring in Brazilian jiu-jitsu when his mouth took a hit. His over-the-counter mouth guard didn’t do its job, and his teeth fractured. Romero decided to develop a better mouth guard,...

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

Topics: awards, business, materials science, national laboratories, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia National Laboratories’ work on neutron generation: Going from tubes to chips

April 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It was a figurative whack on the head that started Sandia National Laboratories distinguished technical staff member Juan Elizondo-Decanini thinking outside the box — which in his case was a cylinder. He developed a new configuration for neutron generators by turning from conventional cylindrical tubes to the...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: technology

Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing

January 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing — and that’s the idea behind a power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. It’s common to isolate communications between systems or devices by using fiber optic cables, said Steve Sanderson of Sandia’s mobility...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: energy, national laboratories, power, Sandia, technology

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