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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Jun-2025 10:09 ET (15-Jun-2025 14:09 GMT/UTC)

Sandia to help propel US semiconductor manufacturing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

Sandia National Labs helps save taxpayers millions through smarter spending

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is being credited with saving the Department of Energy $439 million as part of a more efficient way of doing business with suppliers. That’s more than any other DOE site nationwide.

Innovation is motivation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Fan was recently named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, a group dedicated to accelerating federal technologies in the marketplace.

A surprise contender for cooling computers: lasers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips.

B61-12 system production ends, sustainment begins

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise have achieved a significant milestone for the nation’s nuclear deterrence program with the completion of the last production unit of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb in December. While the last production unit is now complete, the B61-12 program is still producing spare components and pursuing program closeout activities into fiscal year 2026.

To prevent an energy crisis, Sandia Labs cofounds new microelectronics research center

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with other research institutions to head off a potential future energy crisis that could be driven in part by artificial intelligence.

Hey! Where’s my qubit?

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have for the first time demonstrated a practical way to detect these atom loss for neutral atom quantum computers.

Journal: PRX Quantum

New program aims to BRIDGE gap in solar

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratrories is collaborating with Red Cloud Renewable to train Native American women in photovoltaic panel installation. Native American women are significantly underrepresented in the solar installation field, making up just 0.05% of the industry, according to Red Cloud Renewable.

Study asks: Can cell phone signals help land a plane?

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Ohio State University are taking experimental navigation technology to the skies, pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it cannot rely on global positioning system satellites.

Sandia tests heat shields for space

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

For decades, Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility has harnessed the power of the sun to expose aerospace materials to intense heat, replicating the harsh conditions of faster-than-sound flight and atmospheric reentry to ensure the materials’ ability to protect the rest of the vehicle. The most recent of these tests is in support of two exciting NASA missions.

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