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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
LDRD supports Sandia's five primary strategic objectives: nuclear weapons; defense systems and assessments; energy resources and
nonproliferation; homeland security and defense; and science, technology and engineering foundations. To meet these objectives,
LDRD promotes creative and innovative research and development by funding projects that are discretionary, often high-risk, and
that attract exceptional multidisciplinary research talent.
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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.
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