ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has issued three information technology contracts totaling $353 million over a potential term of seven years. The awards streamline IT contracting at the labs. “These contracts replace current IT contracts that are expiring,” said Chris Slater of the Sandia Procurement group. “We are integrating multiple service contracts to create [...]
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Sandia’s Paul Hommert named FLC Laboratory Director of the Year
February 4, 2013 – 3:30 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Paul Hommert has been named 2013 Laboratory Director of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for his support of technology transfer activities at Sandia National Laboratories. The FLC said the award recognized the excellence of work during 2012 by Hommert, Sandia’s president and laboratories director, and the entire Sandia tech [...]
Sandia Labs tops $5.5 million in United Way donations
February 4, 2013 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories employees and retirees in 2012 increased donations to the United Way of Central New Mexico by 17.1 percent over the previous year, giving $5,508,717 to the charitable organization. When it passed the $5 million mark, Sandia became the first company to donate that amount in a single campaign to [...]
Report spotlights Sandia’s impact on New Mexico economy
February 1, 2013 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories spent roughly $900 million on goods and services in fiscal year 2012 and New Mexico businesses were awarded more than $400 million, or 45 percent, of the total, according to the labs’ latest economic impact report. U.S. small businesses received $472.7 million in Sandia contracts, with the New Mexico [...]
CTO Rottler named vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory
January 10, 2013 – 1:37 pm
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Sandia’s Chief Technology Officer Steve Rottler will become vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory on Feb. 1. He replaces Rick Stulen, who is retiring after 36 years at Sandia National Laboratories. In his new role, Rottler will lead Sandia’s Energy, Climate, and Infrastructure Security Strategic Management Unit. Rottler also is currently vice [...]
Sustainability push unites Sandia facilities and research
December 18, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has launched a Sustainability Innovation Foundry that combines labs-wide resource conservation with efforts to turn research in fields related to sustainability into business opportunities. “Sandia has experience on the facilities side and a tremendous wealth of knowledge on the R&D side,” said Jack Mizner, manager of Facilities Partnerships and [...]
Public-private partnership awarded $120 million to develop energy storage
November 30, 2012 – 1:10 pm
Joint Center for Energy Storage Research sets aggressive technology development goals A team including Sandia National Laboratories will receive $120 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new research hub to develop batteries and other energy storage technologies. The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an Argonne [...]
Sandia physicist wins two national awards
November 29, 2012 – 5:00 am
Albuquerque, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories senior manager Mark Herrmann has garnered two national awards for his work in high-energy-density science. In September, the American Physical Society elected him a Fellow, an honor limited to 0.5 percent of the society’s membership in any given year. The citation, formally presented at the recent annual meeting of [...]
Sandia helps DOE bring large-scale solar systems to market
November 27, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is advancing viable, low-carbon power through collaborating on five U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs) where industry can assess the performance, reliability and bankability of large-scale photovoltaic energy systems. “With the trend in the solar industry toward larger systems and greater capital investment – substantial amounts of money are going [...]
Sandia and Lockheed Martin donating $40,000 to help veterans
November 8, 2012 – 2:15 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Nine organizations that help local veterans will receive $40,000 from Lockheed Martin on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories this year. The funds will be divided among nine assistance groups to support the needs of New Mexico’s veterans: Operation Homefront; New Mexico Veterans Integration Project; YWCA Henderson House; Metropolitan Homelessness Project; Rio Grande [...]
Four technology transfer awards go to Sandia Labs
October 22, 2012 – 10:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Sandia’s efforts to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regional awards recognized Sandia’s technology transfer work with crystalline silico-titanates (CSTs), biomimetic membranes, the i-Gate Innovation Hub and DAKOTA software. “It is always gratifying when the [...]
National Hispanic engineering organization names Sandia manager Engineer of the Year
October 18, 2012 – 11:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A radar systems manager at Sandia National Laboratories who is committed to encouraging youths to pursue science and technology careers has been named 2012 Engineer of the Year by the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Steve Castillo, manager of Sandia’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems Engineering & Decision Support group, [...]
Sandia engineer wins Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for role on Mars team
October 4, 2012 – 3:11 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Ron Lipinski received a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for his role as team lead in the Mars Science Laboratory Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermal Generator team (MSL MMRTG team). The award is bestowed upon a group or team of Department of Energy employees (federal and contractor) who together accomplished significant [...]
Sandia gains national recognition for sustainable energy management
September 27, 2012 – 3:41 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received a 2012 Department of Energy Sustainability Award for energy management of its computer servers. The awards recognize DOE national laboratories and sites nationwide for outstanding accomplishments in sustainability, specifically in managing pollution, waste, energy, water and vehicle fleets. Sandia’s award in the comprehensive energy management category was [...]
First Sandia tech showcase shines a light on research, business
September 5, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology will be on display next week at a daylong event. Tips on intellectual property issues and on how to do business with the Labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs also will be featured at the first Sandia Research & Technology Showcase [...]
Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue, spending
August 28, 2012 – 10:35 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $1.89 billion in economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $73 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $10.4 million for the city of Albuquerque, according to a new report by the Mid-Region [...]
Sandia Science & Technology Park to host news conference on economic impact results
August 23, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) will host a news conference Tuesday to announce the results of an economic impact report by the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG). The findings will be reported by the city of Albuquerque, represented by Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry, and Bernalillo County, represented by Commissioner Maggie [...]
Sandia Labs names new VP of Business Operations/CFO
August 7, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bonnie Apodaca is the new vice president of Business Operations and chief financial officer at Sandia National Laboratories. “I am confident that her contributions will move Sandia forward, improve our business efficiencies and ensure continued excellence in mission support,” said Kim Sawyer, Sandia’s deputy laboratories director and executive vice president for Mission Support. Apodaca [...]
Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting
August 6, 2012 – 9:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers have reprised in the journal Energy Policy their groundbreaking finding that improvements in lighting — from candles to gas lamps to electric bulbs — historically have led to increased light consumption rather than lower overall energy use by society. In an article in the journal Energy Policy, Sandia researcher Jeff [...]
Stan Atcitty and Dan Sinars honored by President Obama for early career accomplishments
July 25, 2012 – 4:06 pm
Sandia researchers Stan Atcitty and Dan Sinars have been named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This is the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists and engineers who are early in their independent research careers. Stan and Dan are among [...]
Labs small-business assistance program named Manufacturing Advocate of the Year
July 13, 2012 – 8:26 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program has received the 2012 Manufacturing Advocate of the Year award from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The MEP award recognized the program’s “commitment to the business growth and transformation of U.S.-based manufacturing through work in the manufacturing sector.” [...]
Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun
July 3, 2012 – 8:07 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When Alex Maish was a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the early 1980s, he had a pet project, a low-cost, high-precision way to continuously move solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy. By the early 1990s the technology was ready for market, but it hadn’t [...]
Sandia engineer named DOE Energy Pioneer
July 2, 2012 – 8:13 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy named Chris Evans an Energy Pioneer for his work in identifying and implementing energy conservation practices at Sandia National Laboratories. The award recognizes people who go above and beyond their jobs in energy management for the federal government. Evans has been involved in DOE’s energy savings program [...]
Award-winning Sandia Labs engineer trods global path of nonproliferation
June 27, 2012 – 8:30 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Adam Williams of Sandia National Laboratories won a 2012 Black Engineer of the Year Award for his work in international security and nonproliferation. Williams was named Most Promising Engineer-Government in the prestigious BEYA program, which recognizes some of the nation’s best and brightest engineers, scientists and technology experts. The awards are sponsored [...]
Sandia wins four R&D 100 Awards
June 20, 2012 – 12:14 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured four prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s 100 most outstanding advances in [...]
Sandia Labs technology used in Fukushima cleanup
May 29, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sandia researchers had worked around the clock following the March 2011 disaster to show the technology worked in seawater, which was pumped in [...]
Partnership program seeks small-business groups needing technical help
May 15, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program is looking for groups of companies facing common challenges that could use technical assistance from researchers at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. NMSBA is soliciting proposals for 2013 leveraged projects, in which two or more small businesses request assistance as a group. The [...]
Sandia scientists named 2012 SIAM applied mathematics fellows
May 8, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Bruce Hendrickson and Pavel Bochev have been named Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Hendrickson and Bochev were among 35 members selected for fellow status this year, and are the first Sandia scientists to earn the honor from the 4-year-old fellowship program. SIAM is [...]
Innovation Celebration spotlights teamwork between science and business
May 1, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A kick in the teeth got Delano Romero thinking about mouth guards. An Albuquerque martial artist, Romero was sparring in Brazilian jiu-jitsu when his mouth took a hit. His over-the-counter mouth guard didn’t do its job, and his teeth fractured. Romero decided to develop a better mouth guard, started a business, Albuquerque Delicate [...]
ER doc, Sandia engineer join forces on better trauma shears
April 23, 2012 – 8:05 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque physician teamed with a Sandia National Laboratories engineer to improve the doctor’s trauma shears design so emergency personnel can get to the injuries they need to treat more quickly. “Sometimes seconds count. This product will make a difference for the medical community,” said Mark Reece of Sandia’s Multiscale Metallurgical Science [...]
Sandia Labs garners two tech transfer awards
March 5, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories will be honored twice for its work to transfer innovative technologies to the private sector at an awards ceremony May 3 at the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) will receive the State and Local Economic Development Award, and [...]
Asian American Engineer of the Year honors three Sandians
February 27, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three Sandia National Laboratories scientists are among 19 people from across the United States receiving 2012 Asian American Engineer of the Year awards. The AAEOY program and awards ceremony will be held in Albuquerque on March 2-3 at the Marriott Uptown. “It is a great honor to host this event,” said Eliot [...]
Sandia’s Maynard Holliday named Volunteer of the Year by Citizen Schools
February 16, 2012 – 9:00 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Maynard Holliday, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named Volunteer of the Year by Citizen Schools California for his work as a volunteer teacher at Oakland’s Elmhurst Community Prep Middle School. An engineer by training who spends his days tackling national security issues for Sandia, Holliday’s volunteer efforts focus on [...]
Sandia employees donating $4.92 million
February 14, 2012 – 9:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia Labs employees in New Mexico pledged to give a record-breaking $4.66 million to nonprofits through the United Way of Central New Mexico during the annual fall Employee Caring Program campaign. With contributions earlier from Sandia’s employees in Livermore, Calif., the total raised for charitable causes during 2011 was nearly $4.92 million. [...]
Sandia tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems
January 31, 2012 – 11:20 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Consistent appraisals of homes and businesses outfitted with photovoltaic (PV) installations are a real challenge for the nation’s real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric™ and licensed by Sandia addresses that issue. Sandia scientists, in partnership with Jamie Johnson of Solar Power Electric™, [...]
Economic Impact report spotlights Sandia Lab’s effect on New Mexico economy
January 26, 2012 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories spent close to $1 billion overall on the procurement of goods and services in fiscal year 2011, and small businesses across the nation were awarded more than half those dollars, $540 million or 59 percent, according to the Labs’ latest economic impact report. The 2011 Sandia National Laboratories Economic [...]
Sandia continues long tradition of holiday giving
December 22, 2011 – 1:00 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories continues a more than 50-year tradition of generosity with donations of gifts of shoes, toys, gift cards and food. This year, more than 500 children benefitted from Sandia’s longest holiday tradition, Shoes for Kids, which was started in Sandia’s early days by two scientists who opted to buy shoes [...]
Vermont-Sandia Partnership announces Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation
December 13, 2011 – 3:13 pm
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sandia National Laboratories Vice President Rick Stulen have announced a $15 million, three-year partnership to establish a joint Center for Energy Transformation and Innovation to be housed at the University of Vermont. Researchers at the center will collaborate on research in areas such as energy efficiency, complex [...]
Rankings released for supercomputers doing “big data”
November 15, 2011 – 3:07 pm
Graph500 competition grows larger ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The list of supercomputers entered in the Graph500 competition now features 50 competitors, up from nine in its initial release a year ago, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy, chair of the Graph500 steering committee. New rankings were released Tuesday in Seattle at SC2011, the international conference for high-performance [...]
Sandia/California SHARE campaign exceeds goal, pledges $266,750 to regional charities
October 27, 2011 – 9:31 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Exceeding their stated goal by more than $10,000, employees at Sandia National Laboratories/California in Livermore pledged more than $266,750 to local and regional charities this year through the Labs’ annual Sandia Helps and Reaches Everyone (SHARE) campaign. “I’m proud of the commitment our employees have demonstrated to those in need, especially as [...]
Sandia wins national awards for cutting water use 30 percent, pursuing other energy savings
October 24, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sandia National Laboratories has reduced its water use by 30 percent since 2008 and its energy intensity by more than 8 percent since 2005 in nationally recognized efforts to integrate sustainable planning and design into its operations and facilities. Three projects aimed at decreasing energy and water use at the national security [...]
Hopes high for revitalized agreement between UNM and Sandia Labs
October 17, 2011 – 1:51 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A memorandum of understanding (MOU) of unusual depth and content was signed Sept. 23 by Sandia National Laboratories and executives from the University of New Mexico at the jointly occupied Advanced Material Laboratory on University Boulevard. The growing closeness of two major Albuquerque institutions — often not recognized due to the security [...]
Sandia receives award for electronics stewardship
October 6, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received an award for reducing the environmental impacts of the computers, printers and other office electronics it uses through its fiscal year 2010 electronics stewardship activities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, which jointly manage the Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC), [...]
Solar glitter, rescue robot and university partnership earn Sandia technology transfer awards
October 4, 2011 – 8:57 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will begin researching how to use glitter-sized photovoltaic cells in utility-scale solar power systems, which eventually could cut the costs of solar panels in half and nearly double their efficiency. Sandia’s work with industry, other labs and universities to improve the design, materials and manufacturing processes of the Microsystems-Enabled [...]
UNM and Sandia broaden collaboration in science, technology and education
September 22, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Friday, Sept. 23, Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico and will sign a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) that significantly strengthens collaborative research and development between the two institutions, expanding the opportunities for students to participate in cutting-edge research and preparing them for a global job market. The signing [...]
Nearly $1 billion in economic activity in California generated by Sandia National Laboratories in 2010, according to new report
September 14, 2011 – 5:00 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories generated nearly $1 billion in both direct and indirect economic output in the state of California in 2010 with nearly half coming from the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a new report prepared by the Center for Economic Development (CED) at California State University-Chico. This economic output – [...]
Nanomaterials, nanomedicine lab dedicated at UNM, with help from Sandia
September 9, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It wasn’t exactly the grand opening of a research megacenter, but the dedication Aug. 23 of the third floor of the University of New Mexico’s Centennial Engineering Center for a lab combining nanotechnology and nanomedicine offered a start-up charm of its own. Maybe Los Alamos National Laboratory in its early days was [...]
Sandia National Laboratories donating historically significant robots to Smithsonian Institution
July 18, 2011 – 5:30 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In a nod to Sandia Labs’ contributions to the field of robotics, the Smithsonian Institution has obtained nine of Sandia’s historically significant robots for its permanent collection at the National Museum of American History. “For the Smithsonian to request Sandia technology for their collections is an external recognition of the significance of [...]
Sandia Labs Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory undergoing $4.2 million stimulus fund renovation
July 12, 2011 – 5:30 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia’s world-renowned Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory is undergoing a major renovation so Sandia researchers can test larger batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The nation’s leading facility for battery testing was built in 1991, and has conducted thousands of critical scientific studies to evaluate the safety of batteries under every [...]
Sandia’s “Cooler” technology offers fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer for microelectronics, other cooling applications
July 7, 2011 – 12:18 pm
Licensing opportunities now available LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technology with the potential to dramatically alter the air-cooling landscape in computing and microelectronics, and lab officials are now seeking licensees in the electronics chip cooling field to license and commercialize the device. The “Sandia Cooler,” also known as the “Air [...]
Sandia wins four R&D 100 Awards
June 22, 2011 – 11:59 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest, and were cowinners of a fourth. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed [...]
Dust-size dragonflies and microvalves make mark at annual MEMS student design contest
June 17, 2011 – 10:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A dragonfly as small as a dust mote, its four tiny wings beating like it had momentarily alit on a lily pad, and a highly sensitive microvalve were the big winners in this year’s student design contest for extraordinarily tiny devices at Sandia National Laboratories. The winners — Texas Tech University for [...]
Z researcher Dan Sinars awarded $2.5 million DOE Early Career grant
May 25, 2011 – 3:32 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Pursuing a fruitful line of inquiry, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Dan Sinars has been awarded a $2.5 million, five-year “Early Career Research Program” award for measuring fundamental instabilities in magnetically driven Z-pinch explosions. Sinars’ team was the first to capture, in a series of 3-D images separated by nanoseconds, the undesirable but [...]
Conference energizes Vermont-Sandia smart grid partnership
May 20, 2011 – 1:00 pm
A few years ago, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders attended a field hearing on concentrating solar power at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. The hearing sparked an idea that has blossomed into a nearly unprecedented collaboration to tackle a complex and important challenge to the country’s energy future: modernization of the electric power grid. This [...]
Two Sandia engineers named Influencers and Innovators of Wind Power
April 28, 2011 – 4:00 am
Sandia engineers Jose Zayas and Dale Berg were honored by Windpower Engineering magazine as two of the nation’s innovators and influencers in wind energy. Zayas, senior manager of the Renewable Energy Technologies group at Sandia National Laboratories, was named an influencer on wind energy. The magazine also named Berg, principal member of the technical staff [...]
From fork to farm
April 21, 2011 – 3:00 am
Café’s food-waste composting program keeps leftovers out of the landfill ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At Sandia’s largest cafeteria, a leftover burrito will be sent off to eventually help some backyard garden bloom. When someone leaves a bit of lunch behind at Thunderbird Café, employees send it out for composting. The composting program began in March 2010 [...]
Scientists’ ideas, businesses’ know-how spark innovation through New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program
April 7, 2011 – 10:51 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rod Dakan, owner of Royal Fiber Spinnery in Ruidoso, N.M., wanted an economical method of baling fleece from small, scattered alpaca herds for transport to the mills, so he turned to the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program for help. Royal Fiber was one of 339 small businesses in 27 counties [...]
Sandia, Los Alamos labs to honor businesses’ innovations at New Mexico Small Business Assistance event
April 4, 2011 – 8:19 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A baler design that could economically bring alpaca fleece to market. A method to remove sediment from a northern New Mexico reservoir. An improved pesticide sprayer to reduce disease-carrying mosquitoes in the developing world. These are among the 10 projects by small companies that received technical assistance in 2010 through the New Mexico [...]
Sandia named one of ‘New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers’
March 25, 2011 – 12:09 pm
Sandia Labs was named a winner in New Mexico Business Weekly’s New Mexico’s Healthiest Employers, an award that honors employers that support employee health and wellness. Sandia won in the large company category, for organizations with more than 1,500 employees. Linda Duffy, director of Sandia’s Health, Benefits and Employee Services, said she’s pleased that Sandia [...]
Sandia wins 3 national technology transfer awards for bringing ideas, research to market
March 14, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A water blade that is disabling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan, software that detects water contamination or evidence of terrorists poisoning municipal water systems and a program that provides free technical assistance to New Mexico’s small businesses all have earned national awards for Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia will receive three 2011 [...]
Sandia Labs’ director re-dedicates Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center
February 18, 2011 – 3:00 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In recognition of Sen. Pete Domenici’s decades of advocacy and support for the role the national laboratories play in protecting the nation’s security, officials at Sandia National Laboratories today re-dedicated the still relatively new Weapon Integration Facility building as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Innovation Center. With the long-serving, now retired US [...]
Sandia researcher lauded as “person to watch” in world of supercomputing
February 4, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Richard Murphy has been identified as a “person to watch,” not by the CIA but by the respected online computing magazine HPCwire. The magazine each year names a handful of researchers whom its editors believe to be doing the world’s most interesting work in supercomputing. Murphy is principal [...]
Sandia MOU to assist MEMS students at University of Guadalajara
February 3, 2011 – 5:00 am
Tiny microelectronic mechanical systems to improve Mexican economy, aid US defense ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will help Mexican engineering students learn to design tiny microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), according to a memorandum of understanding between Sandia and the University of Guadalajara. The rationale for the agreement is that the economic well-being of Mexico is [...]
Sandia engineering-sciences director Duane Dimos elected AAAS Fellow
January 27, 2011 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Duane Dimos, director of Sandia’s Engineering Sciences Center 1500, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific association. Fellows are chosen by their peers to be honored for scientific or social efforts to advance science or its applications. The citation [...]
Tamara Kolda accepts high-performance-computing editorship of key journal
January 26, 2011 – 5:00 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Tamara Kolda has accepted a section editorship of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Journal on Scientific Computing [SIAM SISC], overseeing the portion reserved for high-performance computing and software. “The journal just formed this section due to increased interest in computing,” Kolda said. “I was excited to be asked to serve [...]
Sandia researcher Mike Heroux named editor-in-chief of key software journal
January 26, 2011 – 4:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia researcher Mike Heroux has been named editor-in-chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal Transactions on Mathematical Software. The quarterly publication, published by ACM, has been rated among the top 20 journals for its “impact factor” — roughly, the number of times its articles are cited by others. Heroux has [...]
Sandia’s effect on New Mexico’s economy, community highlighted in 2010 Economic Impact report
January 11, 2011 – 12:02 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories bought more than $500 million worth of goods and services in fiscal year 2010 from New Mexico companies, 40 percent more than in the previous fiscal year, according to a new report. The purchases are part of the more than $1 billion spent overall on the procurement of goods [...]
Albuquerque mayor to address summit showcasing Sandia’s economic impact on local economy, small businesses
January 5, 2011 – 4:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories will host Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry and other community leaders at its 2010 Economic Impact Summit on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The summit will highlight the role Sandia plays in the local economy and community. At the summit, Sandia will release its annual “Economic Impact on the State of New [...]
Sandia researchers awarded more than 65 million supercomputing simulation hours by DOE INCITE program
December 9, 2010 – 11:23 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Two projects led by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility (CRF) and Computer Sciences and Information Systems Center have been awarded 65 million hours on two Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputers through the DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. The research projects utilize two [...]
Building name change at Sandia/California more than just wordplay
December 1, 2010 – 5:00 am
New “Applied Biosciences Laboratory” reflects emerging bioresearch mission Glenn Kubiak, director of the center for biological and materials sciences at Sandia’s California site, speaks at a ceremony dedicating the lab’s Applied Biosciences Laboratory (ABL). The building’s new name appropriately reflects the growing importance of biology to Sandia’s mission. (Photo by Randy Wong) Click on the [...]
National Cancer Institute Awards nearly $4M to University of New Mexico Cancer Center to support cancer nanotechnology partnership with Sandia Labs
November 9, 2010 – 11:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The National Cancer Institute recently announced two five-year awards totaling nearly $4 million for a partnership between the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories. One $1.95 million grant will fund the creation of a joint Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnership, and another $1.8 million grant will pay for a [...]
Sawyer to replace Romig as Executive Vice President for Mission Support
November 8, 2010 – 11:37 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Director Paul Hommert announced today that Kimberly Sawyer will replace Al Romig as Sandia’s executive vice president and deputy Laboratories director for Mission Support, effective November 29. Currently, Sawyer serves as the vice president of Technical Operations for Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems & Sensors business unit. Romig will be [...]
Sandia computational researchers awarded $2.6 million in grants from DOE Office of Science
October 27, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four Sandia researchers have been awarded three-year grants totalling $2.6 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to pursue computational research proposals that would help create an exascale computer. An exascale computer would be 1,000 times faster than a petascale computer, the fastest now available, which operates at a quadrillion [...]
Sandia Labs wins 3 technology transfer awards for projects, student research
October 14, 2010 – 9:19 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won technology transfer awards for a water disruptor now diffusing improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, mobile, fuel cell-powered lighting used at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards® and a national institute that teaches students cutting-edge nanoengineering. The winners of the Federal Laboratories Consortium (FLC) Mid-Continent Regional Awards were honored [...]
Sandia National Laboratories’ photovoltaic vehicle receives GreenGov Presidential Award
October 11, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has received White House recognition as one of eight recipients of the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards. The awards honor federal agencies and employees who work to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, meet a number of energy, water and waste reduction targets and leverage federal purchasing power to promote environmentally responsible [...]
Red Sky/Mesa wins Oracle green award
September 22, 2010 – 1:39 pm
Sandia/NREL’s Top 10 supercomputer also tops in energy efficiency ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Red Sky/Red Mesa, listed by Top500 Supercomputer Sites as the 10th fastest computer in the world, has been selected as one of the 15 winners of Oracle’s Enable the Eco-Enterprise award. “Red Sky/Red Mesa is the most eco-transparent (energy efficient) compute platform Sandia [...]
Sandia National Laboratories mourns death of former executive, Hall of Fame inductee
September 19, 2010 – 10:42 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — W.J. “Jack” Howard, a former Sandia National Laboratories executive vice president who was a valued national adviser on U.S. nuclear policy, passed away Sept. 13 at the age of 88. During his career, Howard, who lived in Albuquerque, was responsible for the early recognition that U.S. nuclear weapons needed built-in controls to [...]
Sandia honors scientists-turned-entrepreneurs for innovations beyond the Laboratories
August 27, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hong Hou is the CEO of one of the largest publicly traded companies in New Mexico, and Dan Neal helped commercialize a device that has helped improve the vision of more than a million people. The entrepreneurs are former Sandia National Laboratories scientists who left the Labs under the Entrepreneurial Separation to [...]
Sandia Science & Technology Park’s Applied Technology Associates announces plant expansion
August 18, 2010 – 8:29 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park and Applied Technology Associates (ATA) will host Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Rep. Martin Heinrich and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry on Thursday, Aug. 19, as the company announces a building expansion that has more than doubled the size of its Albuquerque headquarters. The award-winning Sandia Science & Technology [...]
Report: Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue, spending
August 3, 2010 – 1:23 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) businesses and Sandia National Laboratories sites in the research park spent $1.2 billion on goods and services and $2.3 billion in wages for more than a decade, giving the local economy a major boost, according to a new report by the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG). [...]
Tom Friedmann awarded NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal
July 12, 2010 – 3:00 am
Diamond-like thin film offers hard data for solar models ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tom Friedmann was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (EEAM) at a ceremony June 15 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. He received the award for the quality of the diamond-like carbon thin films he contributed [...]
Sandia wins four R&D 100 Awards in wide-ranging display of expertise
July 8, 2010 – 3:53 pm
Photovoltaic-coated batteries, water security, rapid medical diagnosis, simpler thin-film coatings selected ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool that includes universities, startups, large corporations and government labs — received four R&D 100 Awards this year, and played a role in at least one other. R&D Magazine presents the awards [...]
Sandia Labs honors former executive for nuclear weapons work, starting Labs’ California site
July 1, 2010 – 9:30 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — W.J. “Jack” Howard, a former Sandia National Laboratories executive vice president who became a valued national adviser on U.S. nuclear policy and was an advocate for nuclear weapons safety and control, has become the third Sandian to be inducted into the Laboratories’ Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes former employees who made [...]
Sandia National Laboratories’ big impact on small business and New Mexico’s economy
June 24, 2010 – 10:38 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From oscilloscopes to safety goggles, paper clips to general contractors, Sandia National Laboratories bought nearly $911 million worth of goods and services in fiscal year 2009. Of that, about $358 million, or 39 percent, went to New Mexico businesses. Sandia’s Small Business Utilization Department has produced a brochure, “Sandia National Laboratories Economic [...]
New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program asks business owners to submit new projects
June 17, 2010 – 8:16 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) is looking for small business owners who believe their companies could get a boost from technical assistance provided by researchers at Sandia or Los Alamos national laboratories. The program is a partnership of the two federal laboratories and the state of New Mexico that [...]
Texas Tech, U of Utah win Sandia microdevice competition
June 15, 2010 – 5:00 am
World’s smallest chess set and a microbarbershop win big ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The world’s smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year’s design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), held at Sandia National Laboratories in mid May. The two [...]
Sidney Gutierrez named 2010 Notable New Mexican
June 2, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sidney Gutierrez, former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a director at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the 2010 Notable New Mexican by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation. He will be honored June 2 at the 10th annual award ceremony, where award-winning santero artist Arthur López will unveil a bulto [...]
Alliance formed to commercialize technologies that convert waste CO2 into diesel fuel using solar energy
June 1, 2010 – 12:35 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations, formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste carbon dioxide into diesel fuel, was announced today. The alliance team members include Sandia National Laboratories, Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Pacific Renewable Fuels, Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne (a United Technologies Division), [...]
Sandia researchers Phillips, Moody named MRS Fellows
May 26, 2010 – 5:00 am
Albuquerque, N.M. — Julia Phillips, director of Nuclear Weapons Science and Technology Programs at Sandia National Laboratories, and Sandia researcher Neville Moody have been named Fellows in the Materials Research Society (MRS). The title of Fellow honors MRS members for their research accomplishments and contributions to materials research worldwide. The maximum number of new Fellow [...]
Sandia Corp. names new director for Sandia National Laboratories
May 13, 2010 – 1:00 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Corp. board of directors today announced the appointment of Paul J. Hommert as president of Sandia Corp. and director of Sandia National Laboratories, effective July 9, 2010. Hommert, currently Sandia’s executive vice president and deputy laboratories director for the nuclear weapons program, will succeed Thomas O. Hunter, who has announced [...]
Sandia National Laboratories awards construction contract agreements worth estimated $156M over 6 years
May 10, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has selected 10 New Mexico companies to provide an estimated $156 million in general construction, mechanical and electrical work at the federal laboratory for up to six years. Eight of the companies chosen are small businesses. The companies will be prime contractors for the labs, and will compete for [...]
City of Pittsburgh honors Sandia for solar work
May 5, 2010 – 5:00 am
Braving “sleet, snow, and ice” for sun Albuquerque, N.M. — The city of Pittsburgh has honored solar researchers from Sandia National Laboratories for training city staff to install and maintain solar thermal and photovoltaic panels on city facilities. The formal proclamation, signed by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, recognizes the Sandia researchers “who braved sleet, snow, ice, [...]
Sandia wins 2 national technology transfer awards for work with Cray, Stirling Energy Systems
April 28, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won two national Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for its efforts to transfer technology to supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. and solar energy supplier Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. The Federal Laboratory Consortium plans to present the Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards in Albuquerque at its national meeting this week. The consortium [...]
Sandia receives national electronics reuse/recycling award
April 22, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories was one of eight winners among 137 participating federal government agency sites in the Fiscal Year 2009 Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign (ERRC), spearheaded by the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (OFEE). Sandia contributed 400,119 pounds of electronics toward a total 15.8 million pounds of electronics reused or [...]
Sandia’s Chuck Mueller to receive SAE award for diesel engine research
April 13, 2010 – 5:00 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories engine researcher Charles J. Mueller will be presented with the 2009 SAE John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines at the 2010 SAE World Congress Awards Ceremony on April 13 in Detroit. Mueller is being recognized for his paper “An Experimental Investigation of the Origin of Increased [...]
Jill Hruby named Sandia vice president for Energy, Security and Defense Technologies
April 5, 2010 – 2:05 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President and Labs Director Tom Hunter announced today that Jill M. Hruby has been named vice president for Energy, Security and Defense Technologies. Hruby replaces Les Shephard, who recently retired from the Laboratories after nearly 30 years at Sandia. “We are pleased to welcome Jill to Sandia’s executive leadership team,” [...]
New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program helps 320 small businesses in 2009
April 5, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMSBA) helped 320 companies in 25 counties in 2009 to solve technical challenges, including creating high-speed video of an exploding frozen pipe and explaining how silver-coated bandages speed healing. A partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the state of New Mexico, [...]
Sandia to break ground for new computational laboratories building
March 22, 2010 – 9:14 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — A groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility – the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) building, part of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) – will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore. The Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) and Office [...]
Sandia’s California lab cited in ‘best places to work’ survey
March 3, 2010 – 5:00 am
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sandia National Laboratories’ California site in Livermore is ranked eighth among the winners in The Scientist magazine’s eighth annual Best Places to Work for Postdocs survey. “This year’s award winners represent an array of forward thinking institutions that are open to changing in support of the values and needs of its postdocs,” [...]
Sandian Named Asian American Engineer of the Year
March 1, 2010 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ Clifford Ho has been selected by the Chinese Institute of Engineers ─ USA to receive the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award. The honor is presented each year to the nation’s most outstanding Asian American engineers and scientists who make significant, lasting and global contributions to the nation. [...]