Hide and Seek
R3 Technologies is working with a group of small businesses to develop a way to prevent suicide attacks by detecting concealed bombs before they go off. The company turned to the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) program, which pairs entrepreneurs with scientists and engineers at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories.
The foundations of national security
Speaker Norm Augustine laments low US value given education, research
Lighter. Cheaper. Better.
Iron nitride transformers could boost energy storage options
Opportunity knocks
Eastern Cherokees explore IT and partnership at Sandia
National Labs Day
Introducing STEM students to careers in national service
Switched on
Finding more powerful semiconductor materials
Grid modernization
Sandia is leading the Security and Resilience area of DOE’s Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium and bringing its strong research capability in grid modernization to help the nation modernize its power grid.
Making waves
Sandia's water power technology group will provide critical expertise in computational modelling to companies on the forefront of the emerging marine hydrokinetics industry, thanks to a $10.5 million dollar award from DOE.
Ice sheet modeling of Greenland, Antarctica helps predict sea-level rise
A team of Sandia researchers has been improving computational models that describe ice sheet behavior and dynamics. The research is part of a five-year project called Predicting Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution at Extreme Scales.
Decon, bombs, and above and beyond
Sandia won the national Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2016 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a decontamination product that neutralizes chemical and biological agents and for software that helps emergency responders more effectively disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs). And business development specialist Bianca Thayer (8549) was named Outstanding Technology Transfer Professional of 2016.