| From the Chief Research Officer | 1 |
| LDRD PROGRAM OVERVIEW | 5 |
| LDRD Program Objectives | 5 |
| Sandia’s LDRD Program Structure | 5 |
| LDRD Investment Area Roles | 6 |
| LDRD Program Value - Performance Indicators | 7 |
| Long-term Metrics | 8 |
| Short-term Metrics | 17 |
| LDRD IMPACT STORY | 18 |
| LDRD IMPACT STORY | 20 |
| Project Highlights – Mission Agility | 22 |
| Additive manufacturing of magnetically insulated
transmission lines. | 23 |
| Self-assembled seashell-like coatings can act as large area robust debris shields for next generation pulsed power drivers. | 24 |
| DOE simulators benefit from development of self-break, high-pressure air-insulated 3 MV switches. | 24 |
| Real-time evasive maneuvers in contested, uncertain environments. | 25 |
| Hypersonic wind tunnel test bed for fault-tolerant and
adaptive control. | 26 |
| Physically rigorous reduced-order flow models of fractured
subsurface environments without explosive computational cost. | 26 |
| Predicting individual differences in cognition using
advanced statistics. | 27 |
| Reconfiguring the respiratory tract microbiome to prevent and treat infectious disease. | 28 |
| Releasing, detecting, and modeling trace aerosols and gases in Earth’s stratosphere. | 29 |
| Understanding molecular-scale effects on fracture can inform
resource extraction and help maintain the nation’s infrastructure. | 30 |
| Acoustic sensing on Arctic seafloor using repurposed
telecommunications optical fiber. | 31 |
| Extraction and separation of rare-earth elements from domestic waste using citric acid. | 32 |
| Development of novel liquid metal solution chemistry produces renewable hydrogen by water splitting. | 33 |
| Quantifying aerosol injection behavior from
large-scale satellite imagery using statistical
modeling and machine learning. | 34 |
| Overcoming wave energy
converter grid integration
challenges by providing a
complete power forecast at
electrical grid connections. | 35 |
| Designing compositionally complex oxide catalysts to convert greenhouse gases into valuable chemicals | 36 |
| Detonation in multilayer explosives: Effects of the characteristic length scale of mixing. | 36 |
| Using machine learning to create rapid stronglink mechanisms CAD-to-simulation-ready models. | 37 |
| Enabling fully predictive simulations using disruptive computational mechanics and novel diagnostics for fluid-to-solid transitions. | 38 |
| High-speed diagnostic and simulation capabilities for reacting
hypersonic reentry flows. | 38 |
| Developing large, high-uniformity focal plane arrays for
remote sensing through low-dark-current extended-short-wave detectors. | 39 |
| Investigation of microcalorimeter photon detector performance to enable nonproliferation application use. | 40 |
| Mobile jam-proof wireless technology allows for maintenance of line-of-sight network. | 40 |
| Computational imaging for intelligence in highly
scattering aerosols. | 41 |
| Customized lithium batteries for mission applications. | 42 |
| Stress intensity thresholds for development of reliable
brittle materials. | 43 |
| Smart Materials for Highly Complex Optical Tags with
Environmental Response. | 44 |
| Fin ion tunable transistor for ultra-low power computing. | 44 |
| New technology for HI devices allows for underfilling of complex geometries using driven fluids. | 45 |
| New 2.5D neuromorphic discovery platform will enable
AI-enhanced co-design. | 46 |
| Twitcher: Motor dither correlation for the survival of global navigation satellite system spoofing attacks. | 46 |
| ADMMA project enables beam-agile RF sensing and promises
unprecedented flexibility and performance. | 47 |
| Enabling new mission space with miniature programmable delay
element for electronic warfare applications. | 48 |
| Radiation-hard, high-voltage, chip-scale power converter delivers large benefits in a compact package. | 49 |
| Environmental learning methodologies for remote sensing
power optimization. | 49 |
| Designing functionally graded metallic composites to enable
interfacial properties tailored to mission-specific needs. | 50 |
| Cutting-edge methods and techniques allow accurate prediction of UHF wave propagation in mission applications. | 51 |
| Sandia’s multiphysics metamaterial lattices reduce stress in harsh shock and vibration environments by 100x. | 52 |
| REDLY: Resilience Enhancements through Deep Learning Yields offer benefits for power systems. | 53 |
| Mitigating power attenuation and enabling megasonic
communication in defense applications that rely on
hermetically sealed Faraday cages. | 53 |
| Signal-based fast-tripping protection schemes for electric power distribution system resilience. | 54 |
| ADROC: An emulation experimentation platform for advancing
resilience of control systems. | 55 |
| Defensive, wide-area special protection scheme preserves electric grid operation by processing cyber-physical data. | 56 |
| Protecting sensors using pixelated optical shutters. | 57 |
| Electromagnetic threat resilience via a protective Faraday cage. | 57 |
| SpaceWeasel: A low SWaP, cyber-anomaly detection capability
for satellites. | 58 |
| Integrity Box assures the authentic of data produced by
third-party satellite vendors. | 58 |
| Satellites enveloped with STITCHED engineering sensors for
detection of approaching objects. | 59 |
| Project Highlights – Technical Vitality | 60 |
| Wide-bandgap semiconductors benefit from development of
single-photon sources in GaN. | 61 |
| Semiconductor twistronics will enable future quantum
information science applications. | 62 |
| AI-enhanced codesign for next-generation neuromorphic circuits and systems. | 63 |
| Using phage-based, species-
specific editing of the algae
microbiome to improve
economic viability of algae growth as feedstock. | 64 |
| Biomimetic calcification for carbon sequestration from seawater. | 65 |
| Improving/testing ML methods for benchmarking soil carbon
dynamics representation of land surface models. | 65 |
| Utilizing nonlocal interface problem allows for 7X speedup in large scale simulations. | 66 |
| Accelerating multiscale materials modeling with
machine learning. | 67 |
| Optimizing machine learning decisions with
prediction uncertainty. | 67 |
| Reducing the cost of quantifying uncertainty using multi-fidelity fusion and resource allocation. | 68 |
| Identifying and characterizing disinformation risks in national security missions. | 68 |
| Accomplishing more with less computation using Monte Carlo
sampling-based particle simulations. | 69 |
| Understanding the coupling between heat generation and
mechanical work in large deformation plasticity. | 70 |
| Advancing structural dynamics capabilities with nonlinear
modal analysis. | 71 |
| MalGen: Malware generation with specific behaviors to improve
machine learning-based detectors. | 71 |
| Numerous mission applications may benefit from neutron-capture gamma multiplicity counting measurements. | 72 |
| Revealing the kinetics of atmospheric corrosion damage through in-situ X-ray computed tomography and machine vision. | 73 |
| Proton-tunable analog transistor for low-power computing. | 74 |
| Machine learning to go beyond the darken equations in
multicomponent mixtures. | 75 |
| Understanding the effects of radiation on reconfigurable phase change materials. | 76 |
| Development and utilization of quantitative secondary electron imaging for the study of quantum computing materials. | 77 |
| Phononic memory and optical teleportation using optomechanics: hardware accelerators for quantum computers. | 77 |
| Single photon detection with on-chip number-resolving
capability. | 78 |
| Phononic memory and optical teleportation using optomechanics: hardware accelerators for quantum computers. | 79 |
| Multiple high-power phase-locked HPM systems have the ability to increase directed energy strike effectiveness. | 79 |
| Improving active learning for language model to combat
disinformation. | 80 |
| Experimental quantum-enabled, super-resolution imaging technique is a “game changer” for optical diagnostics used in biology and chemistry. | 81 |
| Neuromorphic information processing by optical media offers
energy efficiency and increased speed. | 81 |
| Nanoparticle-mediated delivery of therapeutic mRNA for
protection against lung damage. | 82 |
| Quantum-accurate multiscale modeling in highly
compressed metals. | 82 |
| Improving predictive capability in REHEDS simulations with fast,
accurate, and consistent nonequilibrium material properties. | 83 |
| PIRAMID: Physics-Informed, Rapid and Automated Machine-Learning for Compact Model Development. | 84 |
| High field and frequency electromagnetic (HiFi-Free) shielding. | 84 |
| Simulated X-ray diffraction and machine learning for optimizing dynamic experiment analysis. | 85 |
| Development of hybrid system-component model development for low-cost high-altitude EMP testing. | 86 |
| Project Highlights – WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT | 87 |
| Sandia wins five 2022 R&D 100 Awards, three with LDRD roots. | 90 |
| National/Federal Awards | 94 |
| 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award | 94 |
| Defense Programs Award of Excellence | 95 |
| 2021 National Lab Accelerator Pitch Event | 96 |
| Prestigious Fellowships, Appointments and Memberships | 97 |
| Brad Boyce named vice president of The Minerals, Metals and
Materials Society. | 97 |
| Ganesh Subramania recognized by SPIE, Optical Society
of America. | 97 |
| Sandia researcher Ray Tuminaro named SIAM fellow. | 97 |
|
David Adams elected as Fellow of AVS: Science & Technology of
Materials, Interfaces and Processing. | 98 |
| David Moore accepted into Academia Nondestructive Testing
International Society. | 98 |
| Bo Song designated a Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow. | 98 |
| Early Career Awards and Honors | 99 |
| Four Sandia researchers receive DOE Office of Science’s Early
Career Research Awards. | 99 |
| FY22 Hruby and Truman Postdoctoral Fellowships | 100 |
| Jill Hruby Postdoctoral Fellowship | 100 |
| Sommer Johansen – FY22 Hruby Fellow | 100 |
| Alex Downs – FY22 Hruby Fellow | 100 |
| Harry S. Truman Postdoctoral Fellowship | 101 |
| Gabriel Shipley – FY22 Truman Fellow | 101 |
| Alicia Magann – FY22 Hruby
Fellow | 101 |
| Professional Society and Conference Awards | 102 |
| American Physical Society
Nicholas Metropolis Award. | 102 |
| DOE’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office Postdoctoral
Recognition Award. | 102 |
| DOE’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office Postdoctoral Recognition Award. | 102 |
| Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Achievement Awards | 103 |
| SWE Achievement Award. | 103 |
| Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) | 103 |
| BEYA Science Spectrum Trailblazer. | 103 |
| SWE Patent Recognition Award. | 103 |
| BEYA Modern-Day Technology Leader. | 104 |
| BEYA Research Leadership. | 104 |
| BEYA Most Promising Scientist
in Government. | 104 |
| International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) JeJu Award | 104 |
| Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers Career Achievement Award | 105 |
| Honors and Distinctions | 105 |
| Journal Covers | 107 |
| Abstract | 108 |