This brochure highlights five Sandia initiatives, partially funded by LDRD, which have led to one or more R&D-100 awards over the past decade. It illustrates how mission-driven, LDRD-funded projects can spin-off groundbreaking technologies, when scientists and engineers "connect the dots" leading from a project outcome to an innovative technological solution to a formerly intractable, mission-related problem. To download the brochure, click here.

On September 18, 2008, as part of the annual program review, the NNSA and its three national laboratories - Los Alamos (LANL), Sandia (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) - held a symposium on energy security designed to present some of the specifics of this issue and spotlight key ongoing LDRD-funded research initiatives designed to address it. This report presents a summary of the oral presentations delivered by the symposium's keynote speakers. To view poster presentations by trilaboratory scientists featured in the Symposium Brochure click here.

For 15-plus years, the LDRD program at Sandia has supported fundamental and applied leading-edge research across the sciences that had impacted the life of the nation in myriad tangible ways, and which promises to continue to do so. This brochure offers a fairly comprehensive look at the seeds planted by LDRD research that have blossomed into science and technology advancements in the national interest, in arenas such as radar, energy, water issues, high-performance computing, nano- and micro-technology and medical diagnostics and treatment. For more information click here.

This brochure offers an overview of 39 current or recently concluded Sandia LDRD projects, highlighting six that were deemed worthy of Sandia's LDRD Awards for Excellence. These project summaries are but a small sampling of the LDRD program, but they demonstrate the breadth of the leading-edge R&D and their potential impact. To download the brochure click here.

Sandia researcher Art Fischer holds a sapphire substrate with indium gallium nitride layers - a revolutionary new light for the world. This is the base material for semiconductor light-emitting diodes that emit green, blue, and near-ultraviolet light.

Sandia's value as a national resource is our world-class science, technology, and engineering. Under the guidance of Sandia's Laboratories Director and with the DOE's concurrence, the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program provides the flexibility to invest in long-term, high-risk, and potentially high-payoff research activities that foster the creative thinking of our scientists and engineers, stretch Sandia's science and technology capabilities and supports our Labs' national security missions.

This LDRD funded research investigates the understanding of what happens when water contacts surfaces.

Sandia's world-class science, technology, and engineering capabilities must remain on the cutting edge in order to provide technical solutions to our national security needs. Under the guidance of Sandia's Laboratories Director and with the DOE's concurrence, the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program provides the flexibility to invest in long-term, high-risk, and potentially high-payoff research activities that nurture our core Science, Technology and Engineering workforce and capabilities, and support our Labs' national security missions.

Sandia's LDRD Program is comprised of two major elements: Mission Technologies and Science, Technology and Engineering Foundations.

LDRD funding of projects in Science, Technology & Engineering Foundations is intended to invigorate and extend our expertise within disciplines identified to be the core of existing or future technical competence at Sandia. Mission Technologies are intended to create or accelerate the development of innovative technical solutions for programs deemed by Sandia Management as important to the future of the Laboratories, DOE, and the nation.

Each year, Sandia's Executive Office, with advice from the Chief Technology Officer, designates the specific Mission Technology and ST&E Foundation Investment Areas and target budgets that will comprise those elements of the LDRD Program.