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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Dec-2025 19:11 ET (16-Dec-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)
15-Jan-2024
Sandia 2023 economic impact reaches record high
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ economic impact for fiscal year 2023 reached an all-time high of nearly $4.8 billion, which was $559 million more than in 2022.
The impact is evident in the 1,200 new jobs added in the last year, the $114 million in gross receipts taxes paid to the state and the $1.08 billion paid to the small business suppliers who help provide critical components for Sandia to fulfill its mission.
14-Sep-2023
Increasing national security with satellites that team together
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories has been working on an autonomy project led by the Air Force Research Laboratory that could improve the nation’s ability to conduct national security missions, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, climate monitoring and emergency response.
12-Sep-2023
High-tech invisible ink spells trouble for counterfeiters
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
A high-tech invisible ink invented at Sandia National Laboratories could become the newest tool for stopping counterfeit goods. The research team is now seeking partnerships to help develop and ultimately commercialize the new technology.
29-Aug-2023
The race to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, again
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia National Laboratories will have made one smaller than a sugar cube. But he’s not the only one pushing the limits of tiny timepieces.
21-Aug-2023
Sandia successfully tests heat-powered system
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories recently designed, built and lab-tested a device that can use the temperature difference caused by periodically pumping carbon dioxide down a borehole to charge batteries to someday power underground sensors.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
11-Aug-2023
Cutting-edge complex
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories opened the doors August 7 to its new, cutting-edge Emergency Operations Center aimed at enhancing emergency incident management coordination and communications for the workforce and the community in the event of an emergency, disaster or crisis. The $42.5 million, 25,000-square-foot facility, located on Kirtland Air Force Base, is scheduled for full operations by early 2024. It will house the National Nuclear Security Administration and Sandia emergency management staff offices, along with the 24/7 Emergency Management Communications Center.
20-Jun-2023
Silicon nose: Small sensor ‘smells’ incipient seizures
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories and research partner Know Biological have developed a miniaturized sensor system that can detect the specific gases released from the skin of people with epilepsy before a seizure.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
9-May-2023
Sandia switches to hydrogen weather balloons
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
More than three years ago, the Sandia National Laboratories-operated atmospheric measurement facility in Alaska switched from launching helium-filled weather balloons to launching weather balloons filled with hydrogen produced on-site. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons, they have reduced their metaphorical footprint on the fragile Arctic ecosystem. Since then, they have launched nearly 5,000 hydrogen balloons with minimal issues.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
4-May-2023
Using math to map social connections
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Mike Brzustowicz and his team are using a mathematical principle and Sandia’s computing capabilities to probe the mysteries of connections between people and things, and create a predictive measure for everything from energy grid resiliency to A.I.