March 2017

“Research Challenges can address an issue that ’s important that might be outside the scope of what people are even thinking is possible today, and pursue it so that in 10 years we’ve got something ready to go. People might think, ‘Maybe that’s possible.’ We can say, ‘It’s not only possible, here it is.’ That’s what a national lab can do.” — Rob Leland, former Sandia Labs vice president, Science and Technology