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BiNational Sustainability Laboratory opens, hopes to create 'necklace of labs' along Mexican border

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

After four years of preparation, the BiNational Sustainability Laboratory announced itself ready for business in a 4,000-square-foot facility in Santa Teresa, N.M., a short ride east from El Paso and a few miles from the Mexican border.

Airport protection guidelines to be distributed to emergency planners and airport executives

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A published report developed by a joint team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is being distributed to airport executives and emergency planners and is expected to aid security managers of airports and other transportation facilities in reducing the risk of chemical and biological attacks.

How-to book published on laser beam-shaping applications

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Book Announcement

Following up on their well-received first book, Sandia researchers Fred Dickey and Scott Holswade have edited (with David Shealy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham) a compact new volume, Laser Beam Shaping Applications. Nineteen prominent practitioners share their knowledge of how to shape laser beams to optimize and improve their use.

Sandia demonstrates device for preventing battlefield friendly fire

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, and Sierra Monolithics demonstrated the Athena Radar-Responsive Tag during a recent military exercise in the U.K. Aircraft on bombing runs used their radar systems to spot unique signals from Athena tags carried on vehicles belonging to friendly forces.

Funder: US Air Force Research Laboratory, US Army

Sandia researchers determine that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories has discovered that common anthrax sampling methods need improvement. The research shows that more deadly spores remain after decontamination than previously believed.

Funder: US Department of Homeland Security

Two Sandia microChemLab technologies soon to be checking for toxins in the nation's water supplies

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Two technologies developed at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories are expected to soon be checking for toxins and harmful bacteria in the nation's water supplies. Both are based on the microChemLab.

Climate researchers meet to simulate flight operations for storm cloud experiment

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This week, a team of more than 25 international cloud climate scientists are conducting a three-day operations and planning simulation at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, to prepare for a complex experiment that will result in the most detailed data sets ever collected for tropical convection.

Funder: US Department of Energy/Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Sandia conducts tests at Solar Tower to benefit future NASA space explorations

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA's future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.

Sandia, task force to study ways ocean and wastewater can be desalinized in California

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories, together with fellow members of the Joint Water Reuse & Desalination Task Force, in coming months will be studying the best ways to desalinize - and make potable - ocean water, subsurface brines, and wastewater.

Bioforensics Analysis Research and Development Center created at Los Alamos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

To help authorities trace the source of the deadly letters, bioforensic analysts, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists among them, worked diligently to pinpoint the specific strain of bacteria used. This summer, recognizing Los Alamos' technical capabilities, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allocated $4 million for a new research and development program in bioforensics under the sponsorship of the National Bioforensic Analysis Center (NBFAC) of the DHS.