A letter from the Labs Director
Welcome to the 2025 edition of Labs Accomplishments, published by the Sandia Lab News. This annual issue serves as a record of the remarkable achievements of Sandians during fiscal year 2024 — a testament to the ingenuity, resilience and commitment that fuel our work every day.
Inside you’ll find milestones across our core mission areas and innovative projects that demonstrate Sandia’s unique contributions to national security. From advancing stockpile stewardship to pushing boundaries in digital engineering, artificial intelligence, hypersonics, quantum computing, energy resilience and global partnerships, these accomplishments reflect the depth and breadth of expertise at Sandia and the spirit of our workforce. This volume also highlights our ongoing commitments to safety, quality, employee well-being, philanthropy and much more.
While some of Sandia’s most sensitive work must remain confidential, what you’ll read here shows how we address today’s most pressing challenges. The stories reveal a lab at the forefront of innovation, tackling the work that keeps our nation secure.
As we navigate an increasingly complex global landscape, the importance of Sandia’s mission continues to grow. Ensuring the safety, reliability and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear deterrent remains paramount, and our contributions are critical. Strong science and engineering foundations give us cross-disciplinary advantages and the ability to solve the nation’s toughest problems and make the world a safer place.
I invite you to explore this publication — you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the vital role Sandia plays in safeguarding the future. The dedication and talent of our staff are the driving forces behind these accomplishments, and I am confident that their continued efforts will lead to even greater successes.
— James S. Peery, Laboratories Director
About this Publication
This year’s Labs Accomplishments highlights some of Sandia’s best work during fiscal year 2024, as submitted by the Labs’ Center offices and selected by Division offices. Readers will see numbers in parentheses following many of the entries that indicate the divisions where the bulk of the work for those accomplishments was performed.
Download the 2025 Labs Accomplishments (PDF, 6.2 MB).
Cover Features
Front cover
An engineer works on a W87-1 joint test assembly unit at the Sandia Programs Engineering and Assembly Research facility in California. The facility enables experiments that help weapon systems engineers understand hardware system performance.
Back cover
Sandia families watch in awe as vibrant elephant toothpaste, the result of a heat-producing or exothermic reaction, erupts at Family Day New Mexico. Family Day events were held in Albuquerque, Livermore and other sites.
— Photos by Craig Fritz