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Sandia's DAKOTA toolkit on web and available for free

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Designers and analysts often ask themselves questions such as: "What is the best design?" "How safe is my design?" "How much confidence do I have in my answer?" A software toolkit developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories can help answer these questions and assist engineers in designing anything from components to sophisticated systems.

Reusable explosive device to help law enforcement

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A cheaper, less dangerous way to stun kidnappers or terrorists holding hostages has been developed by Sandia National Laboratories.

Prototype detector could identify anthrax quickly

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Some deadly things don't deserve 15 minutes of FAME, let alone several hours. A prototype handheld detector under development at Sandia National Laboratories can identify the fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) of anthrax in less than five minutes.

Sandia gun residue detection technique will help police ID shooters right at the crime scene

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Explosives experts at the Sandia National Laboratories, working with a Colorado company, Law Enforcement Technologies, Inc. (LET) of Colorado Springs, have come up with a technique that will help police officers at a crime scene quickly narrow the list of suspects in a shooting to those who have recently fired a gun.

Sandia awards licensing agreement to NeoSafety

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has awarded a worldwide licensing agreement to NeoSafety, a workplace risk solutions company, to market the RAMPART™ method and software and co-develop a suite of complementary products. RAMPART™, for Risk Assessment Method - Property Analysis and Ranking Tool, is a screening-level software program developed by Sandia researchers to determine the risk to a building by natural hazards, crime and terrorism.

Sandia and Goodyear sign new umbrella CRADA

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A common bond in computational mechanics has created a teaming effort between Goodyear and Sandia to replace the tire company's traditional build-and-test design method with reliable computational mechanics simulation tools. This collaboration has provided Goodyear with modeling tools that are shortening production time and reducing costs.

Sandia studies security at nation's chemical plants

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Security experts at Sandia National Laboratories are helping shore up anti-terrorism defenses at the nation’s chemical plants. Sandia physical security experts have developed a systematic, risk-based assessment process called a vulnerability assessment methodology (VAM) that could be used to evaluate and improve security at more than 10,000 facilities in the U.S. that manufacture, store, or use hazardous chemicals.

Funder: US Department of Justice

Team studies use of Sandia technology to ensure 'farm-to-fork' safety of the nation's food supply

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When farm-to-fork systems fail, billions of dollars can be lost and people can die. To help prevent such failure, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working with several agricultural universities and agencies to search for ways to apply Labs-developed technology to agricultural and food-safety issues.

World’s smallest microchain drive fabricated at Sandia

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A microchain that closely resembles a bicycle chain -- except that each link could rest comfortably atop a human hair -- has been fabricated at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

Sandia 'detective' solves strange case

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

It was a small problem: a layer of water lying flat instead of slightly bumpy as it froze on a solid. It became a larger problem when no one could explain why that might happen. The slight difference between experimental results and established expectations might have meant nothing. But possibly it was signaling a basic scientific misunderstanding concerning the interaction of water with solids -- an area of major industrial and scientific concern.