Retrospective on the Seniors' Council Tier 1 LDRD Portfolio

Technical Report · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1048487· OSTI ID:1048487

Ballard, William Parker ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Center for California Weapons Systems Engineering

This report describes the Tier 1 LDRD portfolio, administered by the Seniors Council between 2003 and 2011. 73 projects were sponsored over the 9 years of the portfolio at a cost of $10.5 million which includes $1.9M of a special effort in directed innovation targeted at climate change and cyber security. Two of these Tier 1 efforts were the seeds for the Grand Challenge LDRDs in Quantum Computing and Next Generation Photovoltaic conversion. A few LDRDs were terminated early when it appeared clear that the research was not going to succeed. A great many more were successful and led to full Tier 2 LDRDs or direct customer sponsorship. Over a dozen patents are in various stages of prosecution from this work, and one project is being submitted for an R and D 100 award.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1048487
• Report Number(s): SAND2012--3622
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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QUANTUM COMPUTERS
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