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ce transient army and u s navy aircraft in january 1941 construction began on the albuquerque army air base leading to establishment of the bombardier school army advanced flying school near the end of the year soon thereafter it was renamed kirtland field after early army military pilot colonel roy c kirtland and in mid 1942 the army acquired oxnard field during the war years facilities were expanded further and kirtland field served as a major army air forces training installation in the many months leading up to successful detonation of the first atomic bomb the trinity test and delivery of the first airborne atomic weapon project alberta j robert oppenheimer director of los alamos laboratory and his technical advisor hartly rowe began looking for a new site convenient to los alamos for the continuation of weapons development especially its non nuclear aspects they felt a separate division would be best to perform these functions kirtland had fulfilled los alamos transportation needs for both the trinity and alberta projects thus oxnard field was transferred from the jurisdiction of the army air corps to the u s army service forces chief of engineer district and thereafter assigned to the manhattan engineer district in july 1945 the forerunner of sandia laboratory known as z division was established at oxnard field to handle future weapons development testing and bomb assembly for the manhattan engineer district the district directive calling for establishing a secure area and construction of z division facilities referred to this as sandia base after the nearby sandia mountains apparently the first official recognition of the sandia name sandia laboratory was operated by the university of california until 1949 when president harry s truman asked western electric a subsidiary of american telephone and telegraph at t to assume the operation as an opportunity to render an exceptional service in the national interest sandia corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of western electric was formed on october 5 1949 and on november 1 1949 took over management of the laboratory 15 in 1979 the united states congress designated sandia laboratories as a doe national laboratory hence becoming the sandia national laboratories in october 1993 sandia national laboratories snl was managed and operated by sandia corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of lockheed martin in december 2016 it was announced that national technology and engineering solutions of sandia under the direction of honeywell international would take over the management of sandia national laboratories beginning may 1 2017 16 8 this contract remains in effect as of november 2022 9 7 16 17 covering government owned facilities in albuquerque new mexico snl nm livermore california snl ca tonopah nevada shoreview minnesota and kauaʻi hawaii snl nm is the headquarters and the largest laboratory employing more than 17 000 employees while snl ca is a smaller laboratory with around 1 700 employees tonopah and kaua ʻ i are occupied on a campaign basis as test schedules dictate the lab also managed the doe snl scaled wind farm technology swift facility in lubbock texas sandia led a project that studied how to decontaminate a subway system in the event of a biological weapons attack such as anthrax as of september 2017 the process to decontaminate subways in such an event is virtually ready to implement said a lead sandia engineer 18 sandia s integration with its local community includes a program through the department of energy s tribal energy program to deliver alternative renewable power to remote navajo communities spearheaded by senior engineer sandra begay 19 20 lab directors and presidents edit lab directors and presidents no image name term start term end refs 1 george landry october 1949 february 1952 21 2 donald a quarles march 1952 august 1953 21 3 james w mcrae september 1953 september 1958 21 4 julius molnar october 1958 august 1960 21 5 siegmund p monk schwartz september 1960 october 1966 21 6 john a hornbeck november 1966 september 1972 21 7 morgan sparks october 1972 july 1981 21 22 8 george c dacey august 1981 january 1986 21 23 9 irwin welber february 1986 march 1989 21 24 10 albert narath 1989 1995 25 11 c paul robinson august 1995 april 28 2005 26 27 12 thomas hunter april 29 2005 july 8 2010 28 29 13 paul hommert july 9 2010 july 16 2015 30 31 32 14 jill m hruby july 17 2015 april 30 2017 33 31 15 stephen younger may 1 2017 december 31 2019 16 34 16 james s peery january 1 2020 april 30 2025 35 36 37 17 laura j mcgill may 1 2025 present 2 3 38 legal issues edit on february 13 2007 a new mexico state court found sandia corporation liable for 4 7 million in damages for the firing of a former network security analyst shawn carpenter who had reported to his supervisors that hundreds of military installations and defense contractors networks were compromised and sensitive information was being stolen including hundreds of sensitive lockheed documents on the mars reconnaissance orbiter project when his supervisors told him to drop the investigation and do nothing with the information he went to intelligence officials in the united states army and later the federal bureau of investigation to address the national security breaches when sandia managers discovered his actions months later they revoked his security clearance and fired him 39 in 2014 an investigation determined sandia corp used lab operations funds to pay for lobbying related to the renewal of its 2 billion contract to operate the lab sandia corp and its parent company lockheed martin agreed to pay a 4 8 million fine 40 technical areas edit a researcher displays a model of the big hill cavern field in texas part of the nation s strategic petroleum reserve snl nm consists of five technical areas ta and several additional test areas each ta has its own distinctive operations however the operations of some groups at sandia may span more than one ta with one part of a team working on a problem from one angle and another subset of the same team located in a different building or area working with other specialized equipment a description of each area is given below ta i operations are dedicated primarily to three activities the design research and development of weapon systems limited production of weapon system components and energy programs ta i facilities include the main library and offices laboratories and shops used by administrative and technical staff ta ii is a 45 acre 180 000 m 2 facility that was established in 1948 for the assembly of chemical high explosive main charges for nuclear weapons and later for production scale assembly of nuclear weapons activities in ta ii include the decontamination decommissioning and remediation of facilities and landfills used in past research and development activities remediation of the classified waste landfill which started in march 1998 neared completion in fy2000 a testing facility the explosive component facility integrates many of the previous ta ii test activities as well as some testing activities previously performed in other remote test areas the access delay technology test facility is also located in ta ii ta iii is adjacent to and south of ta v both are approximately seven miles 11 km south of ta i ta iii facilities include extensive design test facilities such as rocket sled tracks centrifuges and a radiant heat facility other facilities in ta iii include a paper destructor the melting and solidification laboratory and the radioactive and mixed waste management facility rmwmf rmwmf serves as central processing facility for packaging and storage of low level and mixed waste the remediation of the chemical waste landfill which started in september 1998 is an ongoing activity in ta iii ta iv located approximately 1 2 mile 0 80 km south of ta i consists of several inertial confinement fusion research and pulsed power research facilities including the high energy radiation megavolt electron source hermes iii the z facility the short pulsed high intensity nanosecond x radiator sphinx facility and the saturn accelerator ta iv also hosts some computer science and cognition research ta v contains two research reactor facilities an intense gamma irradiation facility using cobalt 60 and caesium 137 sources and the hot cell facility snl nm also has test areas outside of the five technical areas listed above these test areas collectively known as coyote test field are located southeast of ta iii and or in the canyons on the west side of the manzanita mountains facilities in the coyote canyon test field include the solar tower facility 34 9623 n 106 5097 w the lurance canyon burn site and the aerial cable facility doe snl scaled wind farm technology swift facility edit in collaboration with the wind energy technologies office weto of u s department of energy texas tech university and the vestas wind turbine corporation snl operates the scaled wind farm technology swift facility in lubbock texas 41 42 open source software edit solar panel testing in the 1970s the sandia los alamos air force weapons laboratory technical exchange committee initiated the development of the slatec library of mathematical and statistical routines written in fortran 77 today sandia national laboratories is home to several open source software projects dice digital image correlation engine is an open source digital image correlation dic toolset used for measuring full field displacements and strains from sequences of digital images as well as tracking rigid body motion 43 it is primarily developed for materials testing and experimental mechanics applications supporting both 2d and stereo dic capabilities across multiple platforms windows linux and mac 43 the software is written in c and distributed under a bsd like license 44 fclib feature characterization library is a library for the identification and manipulation of coherent regions or structures from spatio temporal data 45 fclib focuses on providing data structures that are feature aware and support feature based analysis 45 it is written in c and developed under a bsd like license 46 lammps large scale atomic molecular massively parallel simulator is a molecular dynamics library that can be used to model parallel atomic subatomic processes at large scale 47 it is produced under the gnu general public license gpl and distributed on the sandia national laboratories website as well as sourceforge 47 libvmi is a library for simplifying the reading and writing of memory in running virtual machines a technique known as virtual machine introspection 48 it is licensed under the gnu lesser general public license 48 mapreduce mpi library is an implementation of mapreduce for distributed memory parallel machines utilizing the message passing interface mpi for communication it is developed under a modified berkeley software distribution license 49 multithreaded graph library mtgl is a collection of graph based algorithms designed to take advantage of parallel shared memory architectures such as the cray xmt symmetric multiprocessor smp machines and multi core workstations 50 51 it is developed under a bsd license 50 paraview is a cross platform application for performing data analysis and visualization 52 it is a collaborative effort developed by sandia national laboratories los alamos national laboratories and the united states army research laboratory and funded by the advanced simulation and computing program 52 it is developed under a bsd license 52 pyomo is a python based optimization mathematical programming language which supports most commercial and open source solver engines soccoro a collaborative effort with wake forest and vanderbilt universities is object oriented software for performing electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory 53 it utilizes libraries such as mpi blas and lapack and is developed under the gnu general public license 53 titan informatics toolkit is a collection of cross platform libraries for ingesting analyzing and displaying scientific and informatics data 54 55 it is a collaborative effort with kitware inc and uses various open source components such as the boost graph library 54 it is developed under a new bsd license 54 trilinos is an object oriented library for building scalable scientific and engineering applications with a focus on linear algebra techniques 56 most trilinos packages are licensed under a modified bsd license 56 xyce is an open source spice compatible high performance analog circuit simulator capable of solving extremely large circuit problems 57 charon is a tcad simulator which was open sourced by sandia in 2020 58 59 60 it is significant as previously there were no major tcad simulators for large scale simulations that were open source 59 tracktable is a sandia developed open source platform for processing analyzing and visualizing the paths of moving objects trajectories 61 in addition sandia national laboratories collaborates with kitware inc in developing the visualization toolkit vtk a cross platform graphics and visualization software suite 62 this collaboration has focused on enhancing the information visualization capabilities of vtk and has in turn fed back into other projects such as paraview and titan 52 54 62 self guided bullet edit on january 30 2012 sandia announced that it successfully test fired a self guided dart that can hit targets at 2 000 m 2 187 yd the dart is 4 in 100 mm long has its center of gravity at the nose and is made to be fired from a small caliber smoothbore gun it is kept straight in flight by four electromagnetically actuated fins encased in a plastic puller sabot that falls off when the dart leaves the bore the dart cannot be fired from conventional rifled barrels because the gyroscopic stability provided by rifling grooves for regular bullets would prevent the self guided bullet from reliably turning towards a target when in flight so fins are responsible for stabilizing rather than spinning a laser designator marks a target which is tracked by the dart s optical sensor and 8 bit cpu its small size allows it to make corrections quickly without an inertial measurement unit which keeps its cost down the natural body frequency clarification needed of the bullet is about 30 hertz so corrections can be made 30 times per second in flight muzzle velocity with commercial gunpowder is 2 400 ft s 730 m s mach 2 1 but military customized gunpowder can increase its speed and range computer modeling shows that a standard bullet would miss a target at 1 000 m 1 094 yd by 9 8 yd 9 m while an equivalent guided bullet would hit within 8 in 20 cm accuracy increases as distances get longer since the bullet s motions settle more the longer it is in flight 63 64 65 supercomputers edit since 1990s the sandia national laboratories has been home and site of high performance and supercomputers in the 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