Facility • JTA program allows critical assessment of weapon systems, Department of Defense (DOD) platforms, and support personnel performance.
Joint Test Assembly (JTA)
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Krupa Ramasesha named Fulbright US Scholar
News Article, August 14, 2025 • The Department of State named chemist Krupa Ramasesha to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program to Austria for the 2025-2026 academic year. During her time in Austria, Krupa will hold the Fulbright-NAWI Graz Visiting Professorship in the Natural Sciences at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology. In this position,...
Laboratory Directed R&D
Page • Locating lost qubits Recycling products from the inside out Landing planes with cell phone signals Creating the mother of all motion sensors High-risk, potentially high-payoff science and engineering research is at the heart of Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) program. This program provides the flexibility needed to anticipate...
Laser Application Facility (LAZAP)
Facility • LAZAP tests and calibrates U.S. reconnaissance and Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. The facility propagates visible high-powered lasers of multiple wavelengths through the atmosphere with a large aperture beam director.
Leveraging machine learning to refine material models for fusion applications
News Article, July 14, 2025 • To enable future innovative designs for fusion platforms on the Z machine, a Sandia LDRD team developed an automated framework for constructing material models. This directly addressed the challenge of creating comprehensive material models that can leverage machine learning and integrate data from multi-fidelity datasets, something vital for uncertainty quantification...
Lightning Facility
Page • The Sandia Lightning Simulator (SLS) allows test objects to be subjected to simulated lightning currents up to severe levels. The SLS can be configured to produce either one or two simulated strokes, with or without continuing current. It can deliver a maximum peak current of 200 kA for a single...
Lignin processing with machine learning approaches
News Article, March 3, 2025 • The schematic diagram for screening of solvents for lignin dissolution. Using ionic liquids (IL) to break down and make use of lignin is really important for creating eco-friendly energy sources and a sustainable economy. Scientists at Sandia, who are part of the Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI), are looking closely at...
Materials and Advanced Manufacturing
Page • Award-winning materials scientists Creating cleaner ways to purify critical metals Creating products that kill viruses, bacteria and fungi Fundamental research in materials science provides the solid technical basis needed for Sandia’s engineering decisions and future mission work. This research includes innovative and hypothesis-driven science efforts that combine theory, computation, and...
Materials Science and Engineering Center (MSE)
Facility • MSE provides knowledge of materials structure, properties, and performance and the processes to produce, transform, and analyze materials.
Materials science researcher is Sandia’s first outbound Faculty Loan joint appointee
News Article, June 22, 2023 • Jonathan Pegues, a researcher in Sandia’s Coatings & Additive Manufacturing department, was approved to be the first formally approved Sandia outbound Faculty Loan joint appointee. Pegues’ joint appointment is an agreement between Sandia and Auburn University’s (AU) National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME). The NCAME is a collaborative effort...
Mechanical Shock Complex
Facility • The Mechanical Shock Complex provides tailored impact environments, such as shock and crush. The complex simulates dynamic environments such as weapon delivery, severe accident, and pyroshock.
Mechanical Test and Evaluation Facility
Facility • The Mechanical Test and Evaluation Facility conducts experimental research and develops diagnostics to study the mechanical behavioral of materials.
Micro and Nano Technologies Laboratories (MANTL)
Facility • MANTL comprises four buildings with office and lab space and Sandia’s Plating Research Laboratory. MANTL research focuses on mechanical and electrical engineering, chemistry, radiography plating, and more.
Microbiome editing to improve economic viability of algae growth as a feedstock
News Article, June 27, 2023 • The major challenge with using algae as a feedstock is growing it economically, which hinges strongly on the ability to prevent pond crashes due to biotic factors, like bacteria. Phages, the viruses of bacteria, offer an unexplored solution to this problem. In contrast to antibiotics, phages are typically species-specific and...
Microsystems Engineering, Science and Applications (MESA)
Facility • MESA integrates scientific disciplines to produce functional, robust, integrated microsystems. Today researchers pursue advanced concepts that integrate not only electronics at the micro scale, but embody sensors, photonics, and MEMS components.
Mighty Mouse (M2)
Page • Mighty Mouse, or M2, earned its heroic name by saving the day at the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico when a radioactive cylinder became jammed inside a metal sleeve. Its radiation field was far too dangerous for a human, even in a protective suit, to get near...
Mobile Gun Test Complex
Facility • The MGTC is a set of mobile projectile launch systems (guns) used to test a variety of projectiles and/or targets. The MGTC enables investigation of terminal ballistic events into in-situ geologies or engineered targets.
Mode Stirred Chamber
Page • The Mode Stirred chamber is essentially a large microwave oven. It consists of a metal room that serves as a high-Q chamber and a metal paddle wheel to "stir" the chamber modes. Mixing the modes in this manner allows test objects, in a single orientation to be exposed to EM...
Multi-Robot Cooperative Behavior
Page • Challenge Operators often face complex tasks and missions, such as picking up a large heavy item, or taking an X-ray of a vehicle that would be complicated for one robotic system to complete independently. Having multiple robotic systems capable of working together under the control of one operator, can simplify...
Nanodevices and Microsystems
Page • Smelling incipient seizures with sensors Cofounding a new microelectronics research center Testing new technology and research on orbit Precisely controlling materials, devices and information is critical to enabling science, technology, and industry. At Sandia, we are enabling new and increasingly powerful capabilities for critical national systems through our research increasing...
National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)
Facility • Operated by Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) and solar thermal test facility in the United States.
Neural Control of Prosthetics
Page • Researchers in High Consequence, Automation, & Robotics are working on ways to improve amputees’ control over prosthetics with direct help from their own nervous systems. Neural interfaces operate where the nervous system and an artificial device intersect. Interfaces can monitor nerve signals or provide inputs that let amputees control prosthetic devices...
Neuromorphic computing for nuclear deterrence solutions: Sandia partners with German startup SpiNNcloud
News Article, May 8, 2024 • New server board integrating 48 SpiNNaker2 chips through a seamless energy-proportional infrastructure.(Image courtesy of SpiNNcloud) Sandia National Laboratories has announced a partnership with AI and neuromorphic computing company, SpiNNcloud. Leveraging a next generation system, SpiNNaker2, this partnership seeks to advance neuromorphic architecture. Funded through NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program,...
Neuromorphic computing for nuclear deterrence solutions: Sandia partners with German startup SpiNNcloud
Post, May 8, 2024 • New server board integrating 48 SpiNNaker2 chips through a seamless energy-proportional infrastructure.(Image courtesy of SpiNNcloud) Sandia National Laboratories has announced a partnership with AI and neuromorphic computing company, SpiNNcloud. Leveraging a next generation system, SpiNNaker2, this partnership seeks to advance neuromorphic architecture. Funded through NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC)...
Neuromorphic computing widely applicable, Sandia researchers show
News Article, April 10, 2024 • With the insertion of a little math, Sandia researchers have shown that neuromorphic computers, which synthetically imitate the brain’s logic, can solve more complex problems than those posed by artificial intelligence and may even earn a place in high-performance computing. Read more about Neuromorphic computing
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