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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 8-Dec-2025 00:11 ET (8-Dec-2025 05:11 GMT/UTC)

Sandia team creates X-ray images of the future

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Grant and Award Announcement

A team at Sandia National Labs has developed what they belive is a better way to X-Ray, harnessing different metals and the colors of light they emit.

“It’s called colorized hyperspectral X-ray imaging with multi-metal targets, or CHXI MMT for short,” said project lead Edward Jimenez, an optical engineer. Jimenez has been working with materials scientist Noelle Collins and electronics engineer Courtney Sovinec to create X-rays of the future.

“With this new technology, we are essentially going from the old way, which is black and white, to a whole new colored world where we can better identify materials and defects of interest,

Sandia’s Small Business team honored again by DOE

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Mentor-Protégé Program and its leadership have once again been recognized by the Department of Energy for their success in helping small businesses grow.

Quantum bootcamp

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and Central New Mexico Community College are partnering to create a training program for quantum technicians.

B61-13 first production unit completed ahead of schedule

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise delivered the first unit of the B61-13 gravity bomb about a year ahead of schedule.

Sandia to help propel US semiconductor manufacturing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

Sandia National Labs helps save taxpayers millions through smarter spending

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is being credited with saving the Department of Energy $439 million as part of a more efficient way of doing business with suppliers. That’s more than any other DOE site nationwide.

Innovation is motivation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Fan was recently named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, a group dedicated to accelerating federal technologies in the marketplace.

A surprise contender for cooling computers: lasers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips.

B61-12 system production ends, sustainment begins

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise have achieved a significant milestone for the nation’s nuclear deterrence program with the completion of the last production unit of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb in December. While the last production unit is now complete, the B61-12 program is still producing spare components and pursuing program closeout activities into fiscal year 2026.

To prevent an energy crisis, Sandia Labs cofounds new microelectronics research center

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with other research institutions to head off a potential future energy crisis that could be driven in part by artificial intelligence.

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