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Nine Sandians made the nation’s fight against improvised explosive devices (IEDs) personal in 2009 through on-site service with the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) in Washington, DC. They provided much-valued and critical technical expertise in explosives, high-powered microwaves and directed energy, cell phone technology, operations research, and systems engineering. They also provided reachback to broader Sandia capabilities in these and other technical areas to aid the Joint IED Defeat Organization in its mission to defeat IEDs as weapons of strategic influence for our adversaries. (1600, 2500, 5400, 6300, 6700, 8600, 8900) DS&A
Sandia has developed a novel micro gas analyzer based on tiny (0.1 cm3) gas chromatograph columns that separate complex chemical mixtures for accurate analysis. The breakthrough design achieves “two-dimensional” separation on two different columns, with the capacity to separate more than 300 compounds in four seconds. This enables a fieldable detection capability for military and homeland security applications that avoids the high false alarm rates suffered by previously available high-speed chemical sensors. (1700, 1800, 1500) DS&A, HS&D, ST&E
The Best Paper award was presented to Dale Coleman (5443), at the Twelfth Annual Directed Energy Symposium on Nov. 3, 2009. “Diagnostic Array for Characterizing Narrow Band HPM Sources,” co-authored by C. Woods and G. Nelson from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), presented an innovative diagnostic technique that allows accurate power distribution mapping from extended sources within the near-field limit. This technique was developed under a program sponsored by AFRL, and has wide application to High Power Microwave systems development. (5400) DS&A
The Kauai Test Facility completed one of the most aggressive launch campaigns in its history to support the AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense program. It consisted of six successful launches, including one intercept mission with the Japanese Navy. The final mission was for ARAV-C, in which Sandia designed, built, and fielded the Attitude Control Module. This added capability enables testing of extended features and upgrades of the AEGIS system. (5400, 5300, 2600, 2400) DS&A
The DoD/DOE Joint Munitions Program (JMP) Team received this year’s NNSA-Defense Programs Award of Excellence. The JMP is an ongoing, jointly-funded effort by Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia national laboratories. It was created by a memorandum of understanding in 1985, and develops advanced munitions technologies and tools that benefit both departments. The JMP’s contributions include model and code development, improved energetic materials, demilitarization technologies, fuzing and firing systems, terminal ballistics research, sensors, and materials reliability technologies. (1500, 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 5300, 5400, 6400, 8100, 8200) NW, DS&A, ER&N, ST&E
General Atomics-Systems Group (GA-RSG) has delivered the 100th Lynx I, Block 20, Radar to the US Air Force for use in a Predator UAV. The Lynx I synthetic aperture radar (SAR) was developed by Sandia for GA-RSG. The official delivery of the 100th radar was commemorated at the GA-ESI facility during a May 1 ceremony hosted by Neal Blue, chairman and CEO of General Atomics. This milestone continues our partnership with GA, directly benefiting the warfighter, and allowing a faster transition of new technology to the field. (5300) DS&A
The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Joint Program Office (JPO) has engaged Sandia to support critical decisions concerning how to enhance and manage the MRAP fleet for current and future deployments. The JPO wants to assess and optimize the fleet against evolving operational requirements, performance upgrade needs, and the number of MRAP variants. Sandia is using its unique simulation and optimization tools and expertise to provide quantitative analyses that will be the foundation of the JPO strategic plan for future MRAP acquisitions and divestitures. (6300) DS&A
Saving soldiers’ lives in Iraq and Afghanistan was the objective of several Sandia departments through onsite and reachback support to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). Innovative operations, research, and systems analysis methods improved IED events prediction accuracy, counter-IED initiatives’ logistic support requirements assessments, and trends analysis for senior military leaders, including the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Rapid turn-around simulation tools addressed warfighter requests from the field. Dante (force-on-force simulation) and OpShed (Operations viewShed analysis tool) examined complex tactical problems of ground-based conflict. (6300) HS&D
The Terminal Ballistics Technology Department at Sandia demonstrated penetrator case design improvements in a sled test at Holloman High Speed Test Track on July 17, 2009. The work was done in partnership with the AFRL-Munitions Directorate. Design improvements focus on new component packaging in a jointed case design while surviving a wider range of hard-target impact conditions. This joint DOE-DoD successful sled test follows a previous success demonstrated with the Sandia Mobile Davis Gun. A second sled test at Holloman is scheduled for spring of 2010. (5400, 2600) DS&A
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