Conference Profile: Sandia National Laboratories

As a national security laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, Sandia’s science and technology competencies are leveraged to support several missions that are synergistic to its primary mission — to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile in the absence of underground testing, indefinitely. Indeed, Sandia designs all non-nuclear components for the nation’s nuclear weapons and works on assignments that respond to national security threats of both military and economic nature. Sandia's strengths are demonstrated in the following disciplines: 

Sandia also encourages and seeks partnerships with appropriate U.S. industry and government groups to collaborate on emerging technologies that support its mission. This was evidenced most recently when Sandia teamed with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico to form the Nanoscience Alliance. An August 8 article in the Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Sandia and Los Alamos labs were chosen by the Department of Energy to create a new nanotechnology center based in Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Sandia's main facilities are located in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif. 



Sandia, a gold sponsor of SSTI's fifth annual conference, will exhibit at the Pittsburgh event Sept. 20-21, 2001. To learn more about Sandia, visit http://www.sandia.gov/