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Sandia impacts economy by partnerships to commercialize science and tech.

Apr. 14—Sandia National Laboratories is not just science. It's business, too. It's business that has an important role in the regional and national economy.

Although known primarily for research into nuclear science, Sandia has a broad range of science and tech experimentation and innovation. Along with other Department of Energy labs, it also has a legal mandate to share advances with the public.

U.S. law states: "It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to ensure the full use of the results of the Nation's Federal investment in research and development. To this end the Federal Government shall strive where appropriate to transfer federally owned or originated technology to State and local governments and to the private sector."

These inventions cover a wide spectrum, including electronics, advanced materials, semiconductors and various computer-related technologies, including cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

That makes the Department of Energy a major engine of innovation in the United States. DOE's 17 national laboratories surpass all federal agencies in invention disclosures, patent applications and issued patents.

Sandia itself has been recognized as a leader among Department of Energy laboratories.

Sandia's Deputy Labs Director and Chief Operating Office David Gibson laid out some of reasons for that success at a recent news conference.

"The results of a recent study that looks at the economic impact from technology transfer and development over the last 20 years shows we have had an impact of over $140 billion over that time frame," Gibson said. "Within that $140 billion are $72.2 billion in product sales, $22.52 billion in new product sales to government, $14.1 billion in new tax revenue created and over 607,000 new jobs created."

Sandia's analysis estimated federal, state and local governments collected $9.9 billion in taxes during that time period.

That included $6.4 billion in total federal taxes and $3.5 billion in total state and local tax revenues. In sum, Sandia's analysis found, for every dollar of direct sales generated through all agreements, 30 cents was collected in taxes by federal, state and local governments.

Gibson said although Sandia's core mission is to ensure that the U.S. nuclear stockpile is safe, secure and reliable, its mission is also to solve complex national security problems through innovation and discovery. To do that, discoveries can't just sit on lab shelves and gather dust. If appropriate, they are commercialized by private entities.

Commercialization

Mary Monson, Sandia's senior manager of technology partnerships and business development, said her team's focus is centered on innovation and getting lab-developed technologies into the private sector and contribute to strengthening the local, regional and national economies.

"Two ways we do that," Monson said, "through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements or CRADAs and Patent License Agreements or PLAs. CRADAs enable labs to collaborate with external parties to jointly develop technologies and leverage each other's expertise and resources. PLAs give licensees and typically for-profit companies the rights to make, use and sell lab-owned inventions."

The study of Sandia's economic impact looked at the output of those CRADAs and PLAs between 2000 and 2020, examining how they translated into product sales, tax revenue and job creation. The analysis quantified the national economic impact of technology transfer agreements established by Sandia.

Sales resulting from various agreements and their ripple effects supported job growth. On average, the analysis found, an estimated 20,689 jobs were supported annually between 2000 and 2020, the 21-year period in which this study evaluated economic outcomes and impacts.

The longest-running business partnership Sandia's had is with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

"In the early 1990s the tire company turned to Sandia for our expertise in advanced help in improving tire performance," Monson said. "All these years later that partnership continues and remains strong."

Michael Skroch, Sandia's manager of simulation modeling sciences, is the liaison for the Goodyear/Sandia CRADA.

"We often fail to realize the complexity of tires," he said. "They're very complex. We and our families rely upon the safety of these tires every day. Our economy also relies on these tires every day. And the Goodyear partnership enables that."

The partnership has worked recently on developing a quieter tire. Its also led to past development of the Assurance TripleTred, and all-weather tire launched in 2004.

One of the engineering approaches is to test tires by simulating road conditions, the proverbial rubber hitting the road. Sandia and Goodyear developed a virtual way to show a tire's performance using a virtual test machine to simulate road conditions. The Virtual Flat Trac reduces the need to test actual tires on Goodyear's own machines in other locations.

According to Sandia, The Virtual Flat Trac was developed using Sandia's Sierra suite of analysis codes, said Vicki Porter, the labs' Goodyear technology liaison.

According to Sandia, Sierra is Sandia's engineering mechanics simulation code suite, which is used to predict the performance of a weapon system in normal operation as well as the response of a system in abnormal environments, such as a crash or fire. For tire engineering, designers enter the tire's geometry, material composition, inflation and tread pattern, along with the vehicle load on the tire. They then predict things like the temperature of the tire, road noise and how it feels for the driver holding the steering wheel during cornering and at various speeds.

While the agreement to work with Goodyear is Sandia's longest running CRADA, tires are just one example of the labs' technologies and capabilities that can be used for automotive applications.

Such work includes reducing emissions through improved combustion science and fuels, more efficient ducted fuel injection, increasing battery storage safety and efficiency at the Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory, improving lithium battery performance for electric vehicles, advancing material and coating technology and developing hydrogen and fuel cell technologies critical for realizing a clean and secure energy future.

Sandia and Public Service Company of New Mexico formalized a CRADA in 2020 to help PNM develop a more resilient, clean electric grid and to meet carbon emissions targets by 2040.

"The partnership is developing new analytical approaches and technologies to help PNM use both distributed and centralized sources for clean energy," Monson said. "Sandia and PNM are testing storage options like batteries, thermal storage and hydrogen in real world scenarios."

Local startups

Kelli Howie, Sandia manager of business development, said the lab's DOE Boost Platform, led by Sandia and partner FedTech, has resulted in partnerships across the United States and closer to home. The goal is to bring national labs, startups, academia and entrepreneurs together to find solutions to community-based energy challenges, especially in rural areas.

"Starting in 2024, we have worked with over 15 communities across the United States and here in New Mexico," Howie said, naming Gridflow, based in Albuquerque, which is focused on grid energy storage."They've licensed the technology, moved into Sandia Science and Tech Park ... and are pursuing several sources of non-dilutive funding.

Howie added: "Also Clean Aqua Solutions, based in Santa Fe, they're using a Sandia technology to address water filtration and treatment. They're working with the Santa Fe Community College ... and currently are working at the labs to license this technology."

An example of an Albuquerque-based startup that has grown out of a Sandia partnership is Advanced hCMOS Systems. The company designs ultrafast cameras of sorts that enable scientists to make measurements previously thought impossible. The company was founded by former Sandia engineers Liam Claus and Marcos Sanchez.

"We developed some ultra high speed imaging sensors while we were at Sandia," Sanchez said last week. "They're being used at Sandia, they're being used at National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore labs, used at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (in fusion research) ... and so we are commercializing that technology now to basically expand who can get access to this technology and making it more accessible to universities and maybe private companies."

And there's even an application to create better cellphone glass with the technology.

"It's what kind of applications use this speed of imaging," Sanchez said. "Our imagers — the shutter speeds on them are like a nanosecond. ... The way glass breaks, the crack propagation in glass is actually one of the areas that uses these high-speed imagers to be able to see when glass is cracking, how is that crack actually being formed in the crystal structure of the glass."

Sanchez said they're also medical applications, military applications and combustion research that could benefit from the technology.

How to get involved

Sanchez has some advice for other tech entrepreneurs looking to go big.

"If there are other companies who want to get involved and have partnerships with the laboratories," Sanchez said, "there's actually a program called TRGR, a state sponsored program from our gross receipts tax dollars, where companies can apply to it, and if they're selected, funding gets sent to the laboratories for a project to be done by the laboratory and all their great facilities that would help a small business.

Sanchez said Sandia has a board array of technologies that could be licensed.

"So if there's a company that is interested in that, they just have to call the Sandia business development hotline and they will give them a list of all the different technologies that are available to be licensed," Sanchez said. "They can have access to experts at the lab to help them develop that technology."

Sandia Labs COO Gibson summed up the work of the labs to partner with private entities and commercialize products and inventions

"Through these partnerships, this work can affect everyday lives," he said.

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The Mechanical Shock Complex is Sandia’s oldest environmental test facility. It opened in 1946 when Sandia was still known as Z Division. Originally housed in Tech Area 1, the structure was home to shake tables, a pendulum for mass gravity measurements, and a cold chamber. The facility moved to Tech Area 3 in 1956 to better serve Sandia’s impact test needs. After nearly seven decades of service, it was refurbished and opened its doors again with the goal of producing higher quality and higher speed shock tests to validate high-value components and subsystems.

In 2011, Mechanical Shock announced completion of a new Test Capability Revitalization-funded actuator that can produce up to 1.5 million pounds of thrust and generate super-powerful shock pulses. Sleds travel on a precision-machined and aligned monorail. In 2014, another renovation brought a new large-bore gas gun, allowing even faster and more flexible testing.

The actuators design produces higher speed shock tests for Sandia's shock-testing mission, most of which concern weapons components or subsystems. The facility fills a critical gap between tests that can be conducted in small laboratory-scale facilities and those that require the high speeds and energy levels of the Rocket Sled Test Facility.

Mechanical shock is characterized by a transient acceleration and is commonly simulated with a controlled impact that produces an acceleration pulse. In addition to traditional shock pulse testing, the facility is frequently used to produce a controlled dynamic crush of weapon nose structures, aluminum honeycomb, and other components to evaluate functionality or to validate analytical models.

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Sandia Extras Voluntary Benefits

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Sandia Extras voluntary benefits offer discounted group rates on additional insurance coverage for your home, auto, and pet, along with savings on travel, entertainment, and everyday items.

About the Program

The Sandia Extras program, working with Corestream, offers eligible employees a wide range of discounted insurance products and services.

Shopping for coverage online is easy, and payments are affordable and convenient through discounted group rates and a single automatic payroll deduction.

During Open Enrollment (or as a new hire), you can enroll in:

• Hospital indemnity insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Legal services

These plans are a yearlong commitment. You may only cancel or make changes during the annual Open Enrollment period unless you have experienced a qualifying life event.

Additional Sandia Extras are available for anytime enrollment:

• The tax-advantaged 529 Education Plan, for saving on taxes while you set aside money for college education
• Home Find It/Fund It program, for help with finding a rental home or buying your forever home
• Home, auto, and pet insurance
• Identity theft protection
• Employee discounts on travel, entertainment, mobile phone service, electronics, and much more

Be sure to check out the 529 Education Plan. It can make saving for college easier.

Kids grow up fast.  The Education Plan is New Mexico’s official 529 college and accredited institution savings plan. You can set up withdrawals once and easily manage your account online. A 529 is a tax-advantaged education savings plan designed to make education beyond high school more attainable for families.

Register for Sandia Extras

• Go to mysandiaextras.com
• Complete the Sign Up to Access Your Benefits fields using your name and employee ID. Then click Access My Benefits.
• Complete the field prompts for email address, zip code, and password. Enter your preferred email address and zip code of your current residence, then create a password (should not be the same as any other Sandia passwords).
• Click the Access My Benefits button at the top of the pop-up module to complete your registration and explore Sandia Extras.

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April 17, 2024

1.15 billion artificial neurons arrive at Sandia

Setting up house for brain-based computing

Sandia National Laboratories received a brain-based computing system from Intel Corp. that has 1.15 billion artificial neurons, aiming to advance large-scale brain-inspired computing. This innovative system, ten times faster and denser than its predecessor, holds potential for various applications from scientific simulations to societal enhancements like smarter soldier gear and rapid medical diagnoses. (Photo by Craig Fritz) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a groundbreaking stride toward the future of computing, early this year Sandia National Laboratories researchers welcomed the arrival of an extraordinary brain-based computing system called Hala Point. Packed with a staggering 1.15 billion artificial neurons — believed to be the biggest brain-based computing system in the world — and cleverly confined within a container roughly the size of a microwave oven, this technological marvel had made its journey to Albuquerque, New Mexico, from its birthplace at Intel Corp. in Portland, Oregon.

The system’s purpose is to provide Sandia and National Nuclear Security Administration research teams with the tools to realize brain-based computing on a large scale. At a smaller scale, the neuromorphic method has already demonstrated greater speed, accuracy and lower energy costs than conventional computing in several labs, including Sandia .

Compared with the system of 50 million artificial neurons (dubbed Pohoiki Springs) received by Sandia from Intel three years earlier, the new system is ten times faster, 15 times denser and has increased from 128,000 circuits on a single chip to one million.

“We believe this new level of experimentation — the start, we hope, of large-scale neuromorphic computing — will help create a brain-based system with unrivaled ability to process, respond to and learn from real-life data,” Sandia lead researcher Craig Vineyard said of the latest arrival.

“Our colleagues at Sandia have consistently applied our Loihi hardware in ways we never imagined, and we look forward to their research with Hala Point leading to breakthroughs in the scale, speed and efficiency of many impactful computing problems,” said Mike Davies, director of the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel Labs.

The two systems use two generations of research chips, code-named Loihi 1 and 2 for the youngest volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. The latest computing system comprises 1,152 Loihi 2 research processors and is named after another Hawaiian location.

The decade’s rise in artificial brain power. (Illustration by Ray Johnson) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Algorithms for a scale previously unrealized

“Since a system of this scale hasn’t existed before, we’ve been developing algorithms to efficiently use it,” Vineyard said.

While his group is interested in problems involving large-scale physics, chemistry and the environment, he says the technique has the potential to be disruptive at multiple scales.

“On the one hand, we’re looking at science codes, physics computations,” Vineyard said. “Can we model large processes in more detail? What about device design, or climate models with better-defined resolution?”

This means, he said, creating applications that can use the full system.

On the middle ground, “We’re not looking at global replacements of all traditional processing,” Vineyard said. “It’s more a matter of identifying the best approach to a problem. A supercomputer that requires the energy of a small city could function with substantial energy reductions if neuromorphic systems took over subsidiary tasks.”

In terms of societal protection, Vineyard sees smarter soldier gear, better analysis of intelligence operations, better border security and quicker response to earthquakes. Medically, he sees more rapid medical diagnosis and less expensive drug discovery.

“We might soon see self-driving cars with neuromorphic technology, lane detection, cell phones with voice recognition, smarter watches and refrigerators, more detailed home security systems. Did the cat run by or is someone in your house?”

Electrical spike that notifies neurons

3D render of the motherboard with an AI chipset illuminated from the bottom. (Illustration by Ray Johnson) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

The neuromorphic process saves energy and compute time by electrically pulsing only when a synapse in a complex circuit has absorbed enough charge to produce an electrical spike. This process discards useless information — that which doesn’t spike — instead of storing it in distant locations and revisiting it in every calculation. In this manner, neuromorphic computing operates like the brain does, with subgroups of active neurons arranged in parallel circuits, tapped for information as needed, rather than the sequential instructions and remote memory storage involving every possible unit that characterizes mainstream computing.

Sandia researcher Brad Aimone said, “One of the main differences between brain-like computing and regular computers we use today — in both our brains and in neuromorphic computing — is that the computation is spread over many neurons in parallel, rather than long processes in series that are an inescapable part of conventional computing. As a result, the more neurons we have in a neuromorphic system, the more complex a calculation we can perform.

“We see this in real brains. Even the smallest mammal brains have tens of millions of neurons; our brains have around 80 billion. We see it in today’s AI algorithms. Bigger is far better.”

Aimone led a Sandia team to an international prize in 2023 for using neuromorphic hardware to suggest solutions to a wide range of problems, including those in heat transfer, medical imaging and finance.

The mismatch: Like running a race in someone else’s shoes

The most obvious difficulties for neuromorphic computing today are that its unique software must either perform through mainstream hardware — a mismatch like running a race in someone else’s shoes — or in neuromorphic hardware typically, though not always, too trivial and lacking in scale and function to produce notable results.

“It’s clear that brain-based computing functioning through conventional serial hardware hampers the efficiency of neuromorphic programs,” Vineyard said.

Aimone added, “For a long time, we’ve been forced to think about neuromorphic algorithms that are small because neuromorphic hardware is new. I fully believe that the advantage of a neuromorphic computer will best be seen at realistic brain-like scales. With this billion-neuron system, we will have an opportunity to innovate at scale both new AI algorithms that may be more efficient and smarter than existing algorithms, and new brain-like approaches to existing computer algorithms such as optimization and modeling.”

As Hala Point prepares to experience its newly minted Sandia programs, the future awaits.

The work is funded by NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program. The NNSA is a semiautonomous DOE agency responsible for the management and security of the nation’s nuclear weapons, nuclear nonproliferation, and naval reactor programs, as well as responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.”

Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia Labs has major research and development responsibilities in nuclear deterrence, global security, defense, energy technologies and economic competitiveness, with main facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Livermore, California.

Sandia news media contact: Neal Singer, 505-977-7255, [email protected]

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