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Rochester’s LLE Awarded More Than $500M
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2023 — The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have finalized a cooperative agreement for more than $503 million over five years. The new agreement, covering fiscal years 2024 through 2028, will fund the LLE’s Omega Laser Facility and help drive workforce development efforts. The latest agreement is the eighth one between NNSA and LLE and represents a 23% increase in
Rochester Laser Lab Receives $82M in Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 4, 2021 — The OMEGA Laser Facility at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) has received $82 million in funding as part of the federal fiscal year 2021 appropriations package. The funding is part of $575 million granted to the...
National Ignition Facility Sets New Laser Energy Record
LIVERMORE, Calif., July 10, 2018 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser system has set a new record, firing 2.15 MJ of energy to its target chamber. This is a 15 percent improvement over NIF’s design specification of 1.8...
After Fusion Failure, NIF Shifts Priorities
LIVERMORE, Calif., May 6, 2013 — Having failed to achieve fusion by its target date, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is shifting its priorities and has replaced longtime director Dr. Edward Moses, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director Parney Albright announced last...
NIF’s 500-TW Laser Shot Sets Record
LIVERMORE, Calif., July 17, 2012 — The National Ignition Facility’s 192-beam laser system delivered a record-breaking 500 TW of peak power and 1.85 MJ of ultraviolet laser light to its target, validating laser performance specifications set at the facility in the late 1990s.
Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos National Lab
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 27, 2011 — A wind-driven wildfire is threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to the Trident laser, the Roadrunner supercomputer and many National Nuclear Security Administration weapons programs.
GreenGov Presidential Award
Dec 1, 2010 — In Washington, the National Nuclear Security Administration announced that a photovoltaic vehicle created by Sandia National Laboratories of Albuquerque, N.M., has received a 2010 GreenGov Presidential Award. The awards are given to honor...
Sandia Awarded $2.6M in DoE Grants
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 9, 2010 — Sandia National Laboratories announced that four of its researchers have received three-year grants totaling $2.6 million from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science to pursue computational research proposals that would help to create an...
1st Successful Ignition Experiment at NIF
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2010 — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) recently completed its first integrated ignition experiment. In the test, the 192-beam laser...
Sandia Lab Names New Director
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 20, 2010 — The Sandia Corp. board of directors announced the appointment of Paul J. Hommert as its president and as director of Sandia National Laboratories, effective July 9, 2010. Currently the executive vice president and deputy laboratories director...
NIF Achieves Historic Laser Shot
LIVERMORE, Calif., Feb. 1, 2010 – Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have delivered a historic level of laser energy – more than 1 megajoule – to a t...
MEMS Center Awarded $17M
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 11, 2008 -- The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will award $17 million over the next five years to research that aims to make microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) more reliable and durable for commercial and defense applications. The...
Gooch & Housego Receives Award From LLNL
Feb 5, 2008 — Optic and photonic products manufacturer Gooch and Housego announced today it has received a vendor appreciation award from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, Calif., in recognition of the high quality of its crystal...
Sampling in the Tiny New Worlds of MEMS
Mar 11, 2005 — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 11 — Just as astronomers want to understand the atmospheres of planets and moons, engineers want knowledge about the atmospheres of worlds they create that are the size of pinheads, with "skies" capped by tiny glass bubbles....
Motion Detector 1000 Times Subtler
Oct 1, 2004 — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 1 -- A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known. "There was nothing in the [optics] literature to predict that this would happen," said Sandia National...
Daily News Briefs
May 11, 2004 — The National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) are signing an agreement today to collaborate on technology including microelectronics, microelectromechanical...
'Inchworm' Actuator Measures Friction
Mar 31, 2004 — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 31 -- Creating a tool small enough to measure friction on a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device is not an easy task. The tool has to be about the width of a human hair. But researchers at the National Nuclear...
Corning, IBM to Launch Optical Technology Program
Nov 4, 2003 — CORNING, N.Y. and YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. Nov. 4 -- Corning Inc. and IBM announced today they will collaborate with the US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration on a $20 million project to develop high-speed, optically...
NIF Sets Laser Performance Record
Jun 12, 2003 — LIVERMORE, Calif., June 12 -- The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently produced 10.4 kiloJoules (kJ) of ultraviolet laser light in a single laser...
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