Energy security research at Sandia seeks to address key challenges facing our nation and the world. We work with the energy industry to improve current hardware and develop the next generation of technologies to extract or produce energy.
The Climate Security program works to understand and prepare the nation for the national security implications of climate change.
The Infrastructure Security program develops and applies technologies/analytical approaches to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure against natural or malicious disruption.
[singlepic id=465 w=240 h=180 float=right link='http://science.energy.gov']The DOE Office of Science (SC) is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the U.S., providing more than 40 percent of total funding in this area. Sandia has active research programs funded by the SC Offices of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Biological & Environmental Research (BER), and Fusion Energy Sciences (FES).