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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Nov-2025 22:11 ET (24-Nov-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)
22-Sep-2025
Space-based nuclear detonation detection mission endures
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
The Global Burst Detection system, developed by Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, carries a suite of sensors and instruments capable of identifying signals from nuclear detonations and providing real-time information to the U.S. military and government. The final system in the current block of eight systems launched into space in May 2025. Meanwhile, the next series, scheduled for initial deployment in 2027, already has several units completed and ready to be integrated with host satellites.
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- National Nuclear Security Administration
30-Jul-2025
Two-factor authentication just got easier
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have announced a more efficient way to generate and send temporary security codes.
30-Jul-2025
Asteroid hunting using heliostats?
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
While heliostats are used in the day, a scientist may have found a way to use them at night.
15-Jul-2025
Storage where you need it
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesPermanent bunkers and high-security facilities are standard tools for protecting the nation’s most sensitive assets. But in many environments, these options are not available where secure storage is needed most. To meet that challenge, a team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a mobile, high-security vault that can be rapidly deployed to safeguard critical materials in remote or temporary locations.
23-Apr-2025
Designing long-duration toxin sensors
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have spent the last three years developing an ultra-low-power chemical sensor to detect sarin and other chemical warfare agents or gaseous industrial toxins, aiming to protect the public and warfighters.
22-Apr-2025
Sandia’s unique role in nuclear deterrence
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories serves a unique role in the nuclear security enterprise: lead systems integrator for the nuclear weapons program.
6-Mar-2025
Recycling products from the inside out
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — What if plastics could self-destruct when their time as a useful product ends? Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are exploring this concept in one of their latest projects.
5-Feb-2025
SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories became the first facility within the nuclear security enterprise to provide its employees with access to this powerful new tool with SandiaAI Chat, enabling them to ask sensitive unclassified questions.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
16-Jan-2025
Sandia’s economic impact soars to $5.2B in 2024
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories achieved a record-breaking economic impact of $5.2 billion for 2024, surpassing the previous year’s figure by more than $423 million.