Page • Google Scholar Profile email: btalami@sandia.gov I am a Senior Member of the technical staff in the Mechanics of Materials Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. I work broadly in the field of computational solid mechanics. My main research interest is in understanding (and predicting) fracture, particularly beyond the...
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Build-a-satellite program could fast track national security space missions
News Article, April 10, 2024 • Satellites equipped with remote sensing technology execute many critical national security missions, from detecting explosions to tracking sea ice, but until now it could take a team years to move from a concept to a deployable space system. Read more about Build-a-satellite program
Burn Site
Facility • Lurance Canyon Burn Site (LCBS) provides controlled fire environments to perform fundamental studies, simulate transportation and handling accidents for nuclear safety studies, and evaluate and certify hazardous materials shipping containers.
Can the insect brain help us develop smarter, faster AI?
News Article, April 22, 2024 • Dragonflies intercept their prey with 95% accuracy. Understanding how their brains function could be the key to building more efficient algorithms and tech. Read more about insect brains
Capabilities
Page • Leveraging biology and engineering for new solutions Tackling biological questions often requires a diverse set of capabilities to be brought together. One of Sandia’s key strengths is its ability to form and optimize multidisciplinary teams to carry out its mission. In integrating strengths in synthetic biology and gene-editing, infectious disease...
Catherine Mageeney is seeking a “kill shot” in bacterial pathogens
News Article, January 17, 2023 • Catherine Mageeney, a senior member of Sandia’s technical staff in bioengineering and biotechnology, has expertise in phage biology and genetics with broad applications and implications for scientific research. Phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, are the most numerous and diverse biological-organism in Earth’s biosphere. With approximately 1031 existing phages to be...
Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation (CAMINO)
Facility • The Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation (CAMINO) is Sandia’s initiative to build advanced manufacturing competencies and mission-grade trust that will accelerate product realization for critical missions. Advanced Manufacturing represents a paradigm shift in design and production innovation. By leveraging new technologies such as artificial intelligence and 3D printing, advanced...
Center for Computing Research
Facility • The CCR work includes computer system architecture (both hardware and software); enabling technology for modeling physical and engineering systems; and research in discrete mathematics, data analytics, cognitive modeling, and decision support materials.
Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security
Page • A geoscience project under Sandia's Energy, Climate, & Infrastructure Security mission area. Problem Fossil fuel consumption has caused a dramatic increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. Natural underground reservoirs of CO2 and the successful injection of CO2 into the subsurface for enhanced oil recovery indicate the feasibility of storing CO2 in...
Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT)
Facility • CINT is a DOE/Office of Science NSRC user facility devoted to scientific principles that govern nanoscale materials.
Centrifuge/Superfuge
Facility • The Superfuge capability provides the most realistic flight environments beyond the typical launch, reentry, and flight inertial loads by combining vibration, spin, thermal, and shock.
Cloud-resolving climate model meets world’s fastest supercomputer
News Article, April 10, 2024 • Focused on improving the accuracy of climate predictions, a Sandia-led computational team recently achieved a major milestone with a cloud-resolving model they ran on Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer. Read more about Cloud-resolving climate model
Combustion Research Facility (CRF)
Facility • The CRF responds to the nation’s evolving energy challenges with ever increasing expertise and capacity aimed at improving our nation’s ability to use and control combustion processes.
Commercialization & Partnering
Page • Partnership Mechanisms We routinely partner with other organizations to help transition our scientific discoveries and technologies to the marketplace. We also form collaborative research partnerships with industry, universities, and government agencies so that collectively, we can change the world for the better. Explore the various mechanisms through which we can...
Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)
Facility • CSRI brings university faculty and students to Sandia for focused collaborative research on Department of Energy computer and computational science problems.
Computing Collaborations
Page • Sandia Benchmarks Progress Toward Useful Quantum Computing Sandia National Laboratories’ Quantum Performance Lab created a new quantum universal operation performance system (QUOPS) to benchmark and measure quantum computer performance. The QUOPS framework was designed to overcome key limitations in existing benchmarking protocols and enable system-level assessments of quantum computational capability....
Computing, Information Science, and Mathematics
Page • Swifter simulations for modern science...all of it Researchers demonstrate ability to detect atom loss Sandia AI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies Why Our Work Matters All branches of science and engineering at Sandia require the capabilities created through these areas of research. As advances are made in future computing...
Confirming dismantlement of nuclear warheads while protecting sensitive information
News Article, July 14, 2025 • When it comes to nuclear arms control, verification is essential. By detecting unique metastable radionuclide signatures in non-nuclear material disposition pathways, an LDRD research team created a reliable verification measure to confirm dismantlement of nuclear warheads without disclosing sensitive information. Researcher Peter Marleau led an LDRD team that developed a...
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Control and Optimization of Networked Energy Technologies (CONET) Laboratory
Facility • Researchers at the CONET Laboratory conduct research, development, and testing on networked and distributed systems.
Cybernetics
Page • We leverage Sandia’s expertise in material science, microsystems, and advanced modeling and simulation to design and develop advanced cybernetic technologies for a variety of applications. Cybernetics includes the development of mechanical, physical, biological, and cognitive systems that enable the development of advanced man-machine interface technologies. Our work in this area...
Decades of innovation: Sandia’s role in modern chips and AI
News Article, April 7, 2026 • Microchips are a cornerstone of daily life—from laptops and phones to the appliances in kitchens – nearly every technological device relied on now includes a tiny microchip and its circuits. However, despite our reliance on the technology, few know how a team from Sandia, and their partners at Lawrence Livermore...
Deeper insight into radiation-formed defects
News Article, March 3, 2025 • Scientists at Sandia have created a new way to create atomic structures that show the important features of different materials. In the past, scientists could only recreate certain characteristics, like how atoms are arranged in a random mixture, using small crystal structures. Now, they have introduced a new method called...
Demilitarization of Retired Munitions (Demil)
Page • The U.S. Army is responsible for coordinating the demilitarization of all outdated and retired munitions across all branches of the military. For more than 14 years, Sandia has been designing, developing, and delivering advanced demilitarization systems to the Army. These systems are designed to be robust to a wide variety...
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