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Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia has a long history of pioneering AM technology development. In the mid 1990s, Sandia developed laser-engineered net shaping (LENS), one of the first direct metal AM technologies, which was commercialized by Optomec. Robocast, an extrusion-based direct-write process for 3D ceramic parts, is another technology developed at Sandia. It was commercialized by Robocast Enterprises, LLC. As of January, 2019, Sandia was conducting AM R&D projects valued at about $25 million, with an emphasis on: 1) analysis-driven design, 2) materials reliability, and 3) multi-material AM.