Sandia Labs FY22 Laboratory Directed Research & Development Annual Report

FY22 ANNUAL REPORT

BEYA MODERN-DAY TECHNOLOGY LEADER.

BEYA MOST PROMISING SCIENTIST IN GOVERNMENT.

GERARD BENNETT develops navigation, guidance, and control solutions for aerospace systems. His work focuses on developing aerospace applications and validating them through simulation. He is responsible for developing the technical applications for

KARLA MORRIS , the PI of an Early Career R&D LDRD in 2011, was recently honored with the 2022 BEYA Award for Most Promising Scientist in Government. Morris, who is a mechanical engineer and a computer scientist, joined Sandia in 2011 to

modeling and simulation of these systems and creating a model for developing algorithms and optimizing trajectories, and most recently served as team member on an LDRD project in the Autonomy for Hypersonics Investment Area.

develop complex computing codes and models to enable extreme-scale simulations incorporating uncertainty. She is now the formal methods lead for a weapons program.

BEYA RESEARCH LEADERSHIP.

CHRIS JENKINS is a principal cybersecurity research and development staff member in Sandia’s Information Operations Center. He leads a team researching innovative

high-consequence operational technology. His work focuses on three key areas: cyber-physical cybersecurity research, high-performance computing, and cybersecurity expertise outside Sandia. He has led four LDRD projects, including two in the Science and Technology Advancing resilience for Contested Space Mission Campaign.

ways to protect critical infrastructure and other

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF SOIL SCIENCES (IUSS) JEJU AWARD UMAKANT MISHRA was

of America, an executive board member of the International Soil Modeling Consortium, and an active editor for multiple journals. He was PI on two LDRDs in 2022 and is also assisting on another LDRD by modeling how soil microbes are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the uncertainties in our climate change predictions.

awarded the 2022 JEJU Award by the IUSS for innovative and outstanding accomplishments in soil sciences. Mishra is the chair of the International Soil Science Award Committee for the Soil Science Society

Sandia soil scientist Umakant Mishra starts his hike to the base camp

of Mount Everest. (Photo courtesy of Umakant Mishra)

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