Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories: Exceptional Service in the National Interest

New centrifuge spins lasting partnership
WETL celebrates completion of new centrifuge
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Detecting battery failures quicker
Sandia working to improve safety of electric vehicle batteries
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Sandia tests heat shields for space
Solar tower subjects materials to extraterrestrial reentry conditions
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Deflecting doom: How Sandia research could save Earth from asteroids
Free-floating experiments at Z machine provide deflection data
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Old ways transformed by new solution
Modern engineering brings water to livestock on the Navajo Nation
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Exceptional service in the national interest

Our unique responsibilities in the nuclear weapons program create a foundation from which we leverage capabilities, enabling us to solve complex national security problems.

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Committed to science with the mission in mind, Sandia creates innovative, science-based, systems-engineering solutions to our nation’s most challenging national security problems.

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National Security Is Our Business

For 75 years, Sandia has delivered essential science and technology to resolve the nation’s most challenging security issues.

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Sandia’s bi-weekly news source, Lab News, is your way to stay up-to-date with the latest stories about the research, innovations and people of the Labs.

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We strive to become the laboratory that the U.S. turns to first for technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe.

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