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Advanced Power Electronic Conversion Systems (APEX)
Facility • The Advanced Power Electronic Conversion Systems (APEX) Laboratory supports the development of advanced power conversion topologies and intelligent control strategies. Research in the APEX laboratory focuses on robust and fault-tolerant conversion systems for utility-scale energy storage. Applications of interest range from individual cell-level battery interfaces to cascaded and modular multilevel...
Researcher working in APEX lab

Advanced Power Source Engineering Facility
Facility • The Power Sources Technology Group (PSTG) group provides comprehensive capabilities in power source research, design, engineering, characterization, evaluation, and testing.
Advanced Power Source Engineering Facility

Aerial Cable Facility (ACF)
Facility • The ACF is a unique capability for simulating drop and high-velocity impact testing combining a breadth of instrumentation.
Worker preparing for a cable pulldown test

AI center to combine hardware, software for practical gains
News Article, April 23, 2024 • Sandia and Pacific Northwest national laboratories and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are launching a research center that combines hardware and software design and development to improve artificial intelligence technologies that will ultimately benefit the public. Read more about AI center
Applications algorithms, programming runtime and architectures will all work synergistically in the new ARIAA center. (Image by Robert Gioiosa and Siva Rajamanickam)

Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR)
Facility • ACRR is used to test objects in a mixed photon and neutron irradiation environment. Researchers conduct a wide variety of experiments in nearly every branch of nuclear science.
Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR)

Annular Core Research Reactor facility
Page • At the Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) facility, Sandia researchers can subject various test objects to a mixed photon and neutron irradiation environment featuring either a very rapid pulse rate or a long-term, steady-state rate. Research and other activities The radiation produced at the ACRR is used for the following...

Applied Biosciences Lab (ABL)
Facility • The ABL located in Livermore, CA focuses on energy security, confronting the risks of global warming and biosecurity research focused on reducing threats from infectious diseases and biological weapons.
Scientist observing bottled solution

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Page • Artificial Intelligence at Sandia Sandia's AI Strategic Focus Areas Introduction Sandia delivers essential science and technology to resolve the most challenging national security issues. Science-based, systems-engineering solutions are delivered through ground-breaking work in trusted AI, computing co-design, and scientific machine learning. Sandia is partnering with industry, government, and academia to...

Auxiliary Hot Cell Facility (AHCF)
Facility • The AHCF is a nuclear facility used to characterize, treat, and repackage radioactive and mixed material and waste for reuse, recycling, or ultimate disposal.

Biodefense & Emerging Infectious Diseases
Page • Creating novel tools for detecting and fighting disease The threat of bioterrorism is something that a national security laboratory like Sandia is expected to tackle for the nation. Infectious disease diagnosis and treatment is most often associated with the public health domain. Both bioterrorism and naturally occurring infectious disease share...

Bioenergy/Biomass Conversion
Page • Overcoming challenges to make advanced "drop-in" biofuels a reality Sandia researchers are developing clean and renewable sources of energy to help minimize climate change and reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuel oil. To this end, we are creating thermochemical, chemical, and biochemical conversion technologies to efficiently generate renewable biofuels that...

Biological Science
Page • DETECTING DEADLY OPIODS NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES FOR EMERGING VIRUSES IDENTIFYING ARCTIC MICROBES PRODUCING GREENHOUSE GASES Sandia has a dynamic biological research mission that addresses important national security challenges.  Sandia’s research in two strategic areas—biomanufacturing and biodefense—aims to provide biological solutions to critical challenges in energy and homeland security.  Why Our Work...

Biometric calcification for carbon sequestration from seawater 
News Article, June 7, 2023 • Numerous objectives are involved in helping researchers work on biomimetic calcification for carbon sequestration from seawater. An integrated data science and experimental approach is being taken to the challenges of direct capture of CO2 from the ocean. A large group of marine microalgae, coccolithophores, produce calcium carbonate (calcite) plates referred...
A circular diagram with the research project goal broken into three objectives being worked on by researchers.

Blast Tube Facility
Facility • The Blast Tube facility provides tests using different blast tube configurations with varying lengths and diameters to perform tests with energetic and hazardous materials.
Blast tube flow shot with fireball

Brandon Talamini
Page • Google Scholar Profile email: btalami@sandia.gov I am a Senior Member of the technical staff in the Mechanics of Materials Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. I work broadly in the field of computational solid mechanics. My main research interest is in understanding (and predicting) fracture, particularly beyond the...

Build-a-satellite program could fast track national security space missions
News Article, April 10, 2024 • Satellites equipped with remote sensing technology execute many critical national security missions, from detecting explosions to tracking sea ice, but until now it could take a team years to move from a concept to a deployable space system. Read more about Build-a-satellite program
SPACE-BOUND BOARD — Thomas Bradshaw, electrical engineer and flight software lead, inspects a computer board for an upcoming remote sensing mission designed to demonstrate next-generation high-performance computing in space. The team used Valhalla, a Python-based high-performance computing program developed at Sandia, to quickly generate the concept design and estimate mission performance for the payload. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

Burn Site
Facility • Lurance Canyon Burn Site (LCBS) provides controlled fire environments to perform fundamental studies, simulate transportation and handling accidents for nuclear safety studies, and evaluate and certify hazardous materials shipping containers.
Item on fire at the burn site

Capabilities
Page • Leveraging biology and engineering for new solutions Tackling biological questions often requires a diverse set of capabilities to be brought together. One of Sandia’s key strengths is its ability to form and optimize multidisciplinary teams to carry out its mission. In integrating strengths in synthetic biology and gene-editing, infectious disease...

Catherine Mageeney is seeking a “kill shot” in bacterial pathogens
News Article, January 17, 2023 • Catherine Mageeney, a senior member of Sandia’s technical staff in bioengineering and biotechnology, has expertise in phage biology and genetics with broad applications and implications for scientific research. Phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, are the most numerous and diverse biological-organism in Earth’s biosphere. With approximately 1031 existing phages to be...
Catherine Mageeney in front of Sandia’s Thunderbird logo.

Center for Computing Research
Facility • The CCR work includes computer system architecture (both hardware and software); enabling technology for modeling physical and engineering systems; and research in discrete mathematics, data analytics, cognitive modeling, and decision support materials.
Engineer standing in front of a computer newtork at the Center for Computing Research (CCR)

Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security
Page • A geoscience project under Sandia's Energy, Climate, & Infrastructure Security mission area. Problem Fossil fuel consumption has caused a dramatic increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. Natural underground reservoirs of CO2 and the successful injection of CO2 into the subsurface for enhanced oil recovery indicate the feasibility of storing CO2 in...
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