In partnership with FEMA, Sandia is designing and deploying a pilot alert and warning system known as the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) that will help ensure effective public communications during a federal, state, or local emergency.
Sandia researchers have spent a good deal of time in recent years examining the viability of hydrogen storage materials through DOE's Metal Hydride Center of Excellence, as well as a work-for-others partnership with General Motors, and other related materials science projects. The storage of hydrogen on board automobiles is a challenging issue, and hydrogen storage materials continue to be one of the more promising solutions under consideration.
Sandia computer scientist and software engineer Donna Djordjevich has created a Sandia-funded project titled "Game Technology-Enhanced Simulation for Homeland Security." Its mission is to create an interactive gaming platform specifically designed to prepare decision makers and first responders for weapons of mass destruction/weapons of mass effect attacks in metropolitan areas.
Smart Cars: Cars already automatically lock doors when they sense motion and turn on warning lights if they detect potential engine problems. But they are about to get smarter. The augmented cognition research team at Sandia National Laboratories is designing cars capable of analyzing human behavior.
Sandia National Laboratories has entered into a relationship with universities and industries around the country to establish the National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE). The partnership has been driven by concerns over the health of America's science and engineering education and innovation engine, as highlighted in the 2005 report 'Rising Above the Gathering Storm' from the National Academies.
The Department of Energy's domestic FreedomCAR and Fuels presidential initiative has now gone global, and researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are playing a key role in that worldwide effort.
Sandia project sponsored by DARPA focuses on demonstrating efficient conversion of vegetable and algae oils to Jet Propellant-8, and assessing feasibility for oil feedstock and fuel production scale-up.
Imagine a world where a machine creates a "virtual you" by modeling how you think and your expertise on a subject. Or one where your car's computer appreciates your driving skills and compensates for your limitations. That's the world Sandia National Laboratories has entered full throttle through its Cognitive Science and Technology Program (CS&T).
A Sandia team is developing and evaluating networks of small, permanently mounted sensors that could soon check continuously for the formation of structural defects in I-beams and other critical structural supports of bridges and highway overpasses, giving structural engineers a better chance of heading off catastrophic failures.
Understand your adversaries and defend against them -- Critical infrastructure defenders can learn from government "red teams" and intelligence professionals how to better protect their systems by attending a three-day conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28-30, hosted by Sandia National Laboratories' Information Design Assurance Red Team (IDART) at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel.
Naturally occurring structures like birds' bones or tree trunks are thought to have evolved over eons to reach the best possible balance between stiffness and density. But in a June paper in Nature Materials, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM), in conjunction with researchers at Case Western Reserve and Princeton Universities, show that nanoscale materials self-assembled in artificially determined patterns can improve upon nature's designs.
Networks of sensors mounted on commercial aircraft might one day check continuously for the formation of structural defects, possibly reducing or eliminating scheduled aircraft inspections.
Regina Hunter, retired Sandia National Laboratories employee, is launching a new software product, Safe at Homeâ„¢, based on Sandia-developed RAMPART. Safe at Home allows homeowners to assess risks arising from accidents, fire, crime inside or outside the house, hurricane, flood, earthquakes, tornados and winter storms. The software analyzes the risks of death, injury, property and content loss, loss of use of the home, and first-responder delays.
Sandia National Laboratories has received a U.S. patent for a new tool that efficiently but inexpensively uses a single mirror to achieve some of the same effects as adaptive optics, where individually angled mirrors correct distortions in laser beams.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have emerged as key players in a state-of-the-art program for the U.S. Army that focuses on the design and manufacturing of a lightweight, high-caliber, self-propelled cannon system.
A team from Sandia National Laboratories research team led the effort to computerize a new FDA program so that it will be distributed as widely as possible. The downloadable program, called "CARVER + Shock," provides a series of interactive questions. The program helps companies of any size determine vulnerabilities along their food-processing chain.
As part of Sandia's nanoscale research, a group of experts specializing in inorganic synthesis and characterization, modeling, and radiation science have designed a radical system of experiments to study the science of creating metal and alloy nanoparticles.
Beneath a sulfurous cauldron in European seas lies a class of microorganisms known as extremophiles. These organisms and their associated enzymes could somehow unlock the key to a new transportation economy based on a renewable biofuel, lignocellulosic ethanol. That's the concept behind a research program at Sandia National Laboratories.
Sandia National Laboratories and Boeing are collaborating on a project looking at the feasibility of using a hydrogen-powered fuel cell for providing backup power in aircraft.
A mirror alignment measurement device invented by a Sandia National Laboratories researcher may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable and energy efficient.
Teams from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are winners of Sandia's third annual University Alliance competition for student microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) designs.
A Sandia National Laboratories research team is developing a new type of electrochemical sensor that uses a unique surface chemistry to reliably and accurately detects thousands of differing biomolecules on a single platform.
Scott's Liquid Gold Mold Control 500 -- A product based on a technology originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories is now available on the shelves of hardware stores across the country.
An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments and computer simulations at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine facility.
A Sandia research team is taking a new approach to studying how immune cells respond to pathogens in the first few minutes and hours of exposure. Their method looks at cells one at a time as they start trying to fight the invading pathogens.
Sandia researchers Mark Ivey and Bernie Zak are members of a research team from around the world whose work on the cold tundra in northern Alaska is helping to transform scientists' understanding of what the future may hold for Earth's climate.
According to a paper in the March 27 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a recently completed pilot study conducted with the University of Michigan shows that a Sandia handheld device determined in minutes -- from a tiny sample of saliva alone -- not only if a patient has gum disease but quantitatively how advanced the disease is.
Sandia's huge Z machine, which generates temperatures hotter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds.
Gold is shiny, diamonds are transparent, and iron is magnetic. Why is that? The answer lies with a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories about a material's electronic structure, which determines its electrical, optical, and magnetic properties.
A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia developed in partnership with Knight & Carver (K&C) of San Diego promises to be more efficient than current designs. It should significantly reduce the cost-of-energy (COE) of wind turbines at low-wind-speed sites. Named "STAR" for Sweep Twist Adaptive Rotor, the blade is the first of its kind produced at a utility-grade size.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing the next generation of screening devices that will identify hazardous and toxic materials even if concealed by clothing and packaging materials.
The initial version of "OVIS" "” a software tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories that provides intelligent, real-time monitoring of computational computer clusters "” is now available for free download.
A Sandia National Laboratories researcher has developed a simulation program designed to track the illicit trade in fissile and nonfissile radiological material well enough to predict who is building the next nuclear weapon and where they are doing it.
By integrating readily available generic sensors with a more sophisticated sensor, researchers at Sandia have developed a detection system that promises to make it easier to catch perpetrators trying to infiltrate prohibited areas.
Sandia researchers Todd Lane and Victoria VanderNoot have been awarded a research grant to develop a technology that can successfully detect deadly toxins from harmful algal blooms.
Sandia National Laboratories' 8960-processor Thunderbird Linux cluster, developed in collaboration with Dell, Inc. and Cisco, maintained its sixth position in the Top500 Supercomputers by achieving an improved overall performance of 53.0 teraflops, an 18.5 percent increase in efficiency from last year's performance.
A $15 million upgrade to Sandia's Red Storm computer has increased its peak speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops in a computing terrain in which a single teraflop was a big deal only 6 years ago. The machine, built by Cray Inc., is now rated second fastest in the world, with a Linpack speed of 101.4 teraflops.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers John Shelnutt and Yujiang Song have discovered a better way to see where a drug attaches to a cell through a new process that produces novel hollow platinum nanostructures.
Research by a Sandia engineer and a University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield in a car accident. This happens before any overall motion of the head following impact with the windshield and is a new concept to consider for doctors interested in traumatic brain injury.
Sandia's Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid, in an experiment to better understand the characteristics of diamond under the extreme pressure it would face when used as a capsule for a BB-sized pellet intended to fuel a nuclear fusion reaction.
Sandia researchers are working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), University of Cincinnati and Argonne National Laboratory to develop contaminant warning systems that can monitor municipal water systems to determine quickly when and where a contamination occurs.
For the past 12 months, Sandia has served as the lead lab in Project LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security). The project was created to keep U.S. oil and gas control systems safe and secure, and to help minimize the chance that a terrorist attack could severely damage or cripple America's oil and gas infrastructure.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced today that Sandia National Laboratories is the new home of the National Laboratory Center for Solid-State Lighting Research and Development. He made the announcement at a news conference at Sandia's International Programs Building.
Supercomputer simulations by Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures. The new computational model also expands the known range of water's electrical conductivity.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have demonstrated a fingerprinting technique that allows hackers with ill intent to identify a wireless driver without modification to or cooperation from a wireless device. Revealing this technique publicly, Sandia researchers hope, can aid in improving the security of wireless communications for devices that employ 802.11 networking.
Through late June and early July, Sandia researchers in Livermore tested the Rapidly Deployable Chemical Detection System (RDCDS) during Oakland A's games at McAfee Stadium. The system, which can be packaged and deployed within 24 hours locally, is designed to provide swift yet effective protection at high-profile events.
Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company today announced a three-year research collaboration that is expected to play a role in both organizations' interests in biology and bioenergy.
For the past three years a Sandia research team has been investigating the performance of piezoelectric polymer films that might one day become ultra-light mirrors in space telescopes. In 2007, a Labs' experimental package of polymers will be part of a NASA experiment on the upcoming Materials International Space Station Experiment.
Rough hydrophobic surfaces, self-assembled by nanotechnology techniques, attract each other under water over long distances by lowering the pressure between them. This occurs because water, to escape water-hating surfaces, turns into water vapor, creating a cavity of lower pressure than the water around it.
Sandia's Wind Energy Technology Department has developed a device, the Accurate Time Linked data Acquisition System (ATLAS II), to help engineers determine efficiency and health of wind turbines. The device can also provide all of the information necessary to the understand how well a machine is performing.
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