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12-May-2025

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.

23-Apr-2025

Designing long-duration toxin sensors

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have spent the last three years developing an ultra-low-power chemical sensor to detect sarin and other chemical warfare agents or gaseous industrial toxins, aiming to protect the public and warfighters.

22-Apr-2025

Sandia’s unique role in nuclear deterrence

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories serves a unique role in the nuclear security enterprise: lead systems integrator for the nuclear weapons program.

17-Apr-2025

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.

8-Apr-2025

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.

6-Mar-2025

Recycling products from the inside out

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — What if plastics could self-destruct when their time as a useful product ends? Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are exploring this concept in one of their latest projects.

24-Feb-2025

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.

5-Feb-2025

SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories became the first facility within the nuclear security enterprise to provide its employees with access to this powerful new tool with SandiaAI Chat, enabling them to ask sensitive unclassified questions.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

16-Jan-2025

Sandia’s economic impact soars to $5.2B in 2024

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories achieved a record-breaking economic impact of $5.2 billion for 2024, surpassing the previous year’s figure by more than $423 million.

6-Jan-2025

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.