| Introduction | 7 |
| LDRD Program Overview | 7 |
| Sandia’s LDRD Program structure | 8 |
| LDRD Investment Area Roles | 8 |
| Program Metrics | 9 |
| LDRD PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS | 10 |
| Enabling agile responses to national security missions (technology/capability affecting the mission) | 10 |
| Mobile sensors find the best data to identify threats | 11 |
| Sandia scientists begin to unlock the optical emission characteristics of plutonium | 11 |
| High-performance digital radar for multi-mission intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance | 13 |
| Adopting advanced commercial CMOS technology for rad-hard applications | 13 |
| Speeding up model development for improved mission agility | 14 |
| 14 MeV DT Neutron Test Facility at the Sandia Ion Beam Laboratory | 14 |
| Stochastic shock in advanced materials | 15 |
| High-energy x-ray detectors using fast, high-Z semiconductors | 15 |
| Generating hypersonic flight plans with Georgia Tech | 16 |
| Gram scale synthesis route for high entropy oxides, with chemical control over particle composition and size | 17 |
| Surface treatment methods for activating the surface of polymers | 18 |
| Creating an electromagnetic pulse (EMP)-resilient electric grid | 18 |
| Rapid screening of CRISPR gene editing therapeutics | 18 |
| Power Bus GC results in reduced time/cost of nuclear system upgrades | 19 |
| Parallel tensor decomposition for massive, heterogeneous, incomplete data | 20 |
| Stochastic optimization to enhance resiliency and response strategies in critical infrastructure | 20 |
| Disaggregated memory architectures for future High Performance Computing (HPC) | 21 |
| Compatible particle methods | 21 |
| Controlling the activity of gene-editing tools | 22 |
| Novel zoned wasteforms for high-priority radionuclide waste streams | 22 |
| Sandia Fellow Keith Matzen received the 2019 Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates | 22 |
| Technical vitality and
frontiers of S&T | 23 |
| Credible image meshing enables as-built computational analysis | 24 |
| Forecasting marine sediment properties on and near the Arctic shelf with geospatial machine learning | 24 |
| Understanding ductile rupture of metals | 25 |
| Discovering new ways to make magnetically soft materials | 25 |
| Design/fabrication of reliable, reactive multilayer coatings/foils to release stored chemical energy as light/heat | 26 |
| Statistical uncertainty quantification for multivariate physical parameter estimation with multivariate outputs | 26 |
| A domain-specific language for high-consequence control software | 27 |
| State-of-the-art operation of an RF acoustic amplifier technology | 28 |
| 3D-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of electrothermal instability growth by studying Z-pinches with engineered defects | 28 |
| How to see what’s happening inside a battery without disturbing it | 29 |
| Passive magnetoelastic smart sensors for a resilient energy infrastructure | 30 |
| An exascale computational simulation capability for pervasive fracture and failure of structures | 30 |
| Fast and robust hierarchical solvers | 31 |
| Near-infrared nanophotonics through dynamic control of carrier density in conducting ceramics | 31 |
| Characterization of ultralow permeability geomaterials using electrokinetics | 32 |
| Prediction and inference of multi-scale electrical properties of geomaterials | 32 |
| Metamaterials science and technology Grand Challenge project | 33 |
| Microsystems-enabled photovoltaics | 33 |
| Providing high-quality intelligence of world events | 33 |
| Realistic emulation of automated synthetic biology facilities to prevent risk of unintended manufacture | 34 |
| Assessing seismic analysis and analyst performance using the normalized compression distance metric | 35 |
| A truly micro-scale gyroscope based on optomechanical oscillation | 35 |
| Sandia researchers create new ion selective membranes for batteries | 36 |
| Workforce attraction, development and retention | 37 |
| Four Sandia researchers win Presidential Early Career Award | 38 |
| 2019 Truman Postdoctoral Fellowship | 40 |
| 2019 Jill Hruby Postdoctoral Fellow | 41 |
| AutonomyNM attracts collaborative researchers in Autonomy for
Hypersonics Mission Campaign | 43 |
| Sandia’s LDRD Program attracts Joel Clemmer to work on challenging
Engineering Science projects | 43 |
| Sandia LDRD principal investigator, Tamara Kolda, named Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow | 44 |
| New Mexico Legislators’ Serial Innovator Awards | 44 |
| Most Promising Asian-American Engineer of the Year | 44 |
| Black Engineer of the Year STEM Global Competitiveness Awards | 45 |
| Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) STEM Global Competitiveness Awards | 45 |
| Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards | 46 |
| Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award | 46 |
| Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers Award | 47 |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Early Achievement Award | 47 |
| Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics Fellow | 48 |
| Materials Research Society
Mid-Career Researcher Award | 48 |
| 2019 R&D 100 Awards | 49 |
| Lawrence Sperry Award | 51 |
| Federal Consortium Awards | 50 |
| ABSTRACT | 52 |
| 2019 LDRD TEAM | 52 |