LLNL researchers have developed an approach to manufacture the liner with an added variable mass component, which is used to precisely control and...
National Security and Defense
Supporting advanced technology needs in defense through high-peak-power lasers, high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence for modeling / simulation, award-winning optics for space missions, novel material research, electronic sensors, forensic science and more for the Department of War, Homeland Security, Justice and State departments as well as international partners and state governments.
People
Capabilities
Decision Superiority
- A computational capability focused on developing artificial-intelligence-powered decision support technology for strategic wargaming through high-performance-computing-enabled conflict simulation, intelligence-informed adversary modeling, and optimal control algorithms.
Hypersonic Testing
- LLNL's newest capability offers a hypersonic test facility for high-throughput, high-fidelity data that can be used to characterize material response under nominal and off-nominal supersonic and hypersonic flow conditions, provide transient flow and material state high resolution data sets for code development, anchoring, and model validation.
Advanced Manufacturing
- World-class facilities include equipment for direct ink writing, powder bed fusion, electrophoretic deposition, projection microstereolithography, and laser-based processes such as two-photon lithography and selective laser melting.
- For specialized design and prototyping, LLNL's Polymer Enclave houses state-of-the-art additive manufacturing machines and resources for staff to work side-by-side at every stage of the weapon component design and product realization process — enabling the rapid development of new materials and technologies.
- World-class facilities include equipment for direct ink writing, powder bed fusion, electrophoretic deposition, projection microstereolithography, and laser-based processes such as two-photon lithography and selective laser melting.
High Explosives Development
- LLNL's High Explosive Applications Facility (HEAF) integrates the operations of synthesis, formulation and testing of explosive materials in a single, synergistic facility.
Electromagnetic Dominance
- A key component to LLNL research in support of defense systems, this group generates novel devices, systems, algorithms and other capabilities to provide the warfighter with an edge across domains in an ever-evolving threat environment.
Unmanned Systems Development
- LLNL's Autonomous Sensors program leverages its extensive expertise in sensor technology and machine learning with unmanned systems to create innovative solutions that enhance situational awareness and operational effectiveness.
Facilities
Explore Technologies
IL-13921
High Explosives
IL-13814
LLNL researchers have developed a method to of crosslinking, polymerizing or otherwise covalently coupling a subset of nitroaromatic and nitramine...
High Explosives
IL-13762
LLNL has developed a method that adds a polyamine based crosslinker and an acid receptor, based on MgO nanoparticles into a polymer bonded PBX, where...
High Explosives
IL-13761
LLNL researchers uses Additive Manufacturing (AM) to create reinforcing scaffolds that can be integrated with High Explosives (HE) or solid rocket...
High Explosives
IL-12893, IL-13653
LLNL researchers have developed a TDLAS-based, standalone, real-time gas analyzer in a small form-factor for continuous or single-point monitoring...
Sensors, Spectrometers
IL-13544
A set of images generated by multiple passes over the same area can be coherently integrated by this technology developed by LLNL researchers. The...
Ground Penetrating Radar
IL-13685
To address the need for realistic and high-fidelity first responder training, a multidisciplinary team at LLNL has worked to establish the new gold...
National Security Forensics
IL-13764
This novel detector for characterizing IFE implosions is an alternative to the current RTNADs to measure neutron fluxes > 3x10 11 neutrons/cm 2 at...
Sensors
IL-13587
LLNL’s SAS technology embedded within a facility is developed to sense, detect, localize, alert, and communicate an active shooter(s) to first...
Sensors
IL-13519
The key to time-reversal for an active shooter detection/tracking application is being able to estimate the space-time transfer function (Green’s...
Sensors
IL-13455
LLNL researchers have developed a lightweight drone-based GPR array that when flown over a surface with laid and/or buried objects could image the...
Ground Penetrating Radar
IL-13435
This technology uses three different frequency bands to create intensity maps of returned signals. Signals have traditionally been displayed as raw...
Ground Penetrating Radar
IL-12551 and IL-12607
The suppressor has a series of chambers for the propellant to flow through, but unlike all traditional suppressors, the chambers are open, not closed...
Defense Technologies
40518
Livermore Lab researchers have developed a tunable shaped charge which comprises a cylindrical liner commonly a metal such as copper or molybdenum but...
Defense Technologies
40118
Livermore Lab researchers have developed a method that combines additive manufacturing (AM) with an infill step to render a final component which is...
Defense Technologies
35417
There are three main components to the RaFTS system: 1) the radiation detector, which can be of any type and from any manufacturer; 2) the RaFTS...
National Security Forensics
25512 (IL-11739)
LLNL has developed a radiation detector that cools to operating temperatures in 1-2 hours using two separate cooling stages. The first cooling brings...
Sensors
16408, IL-12079
LLNL's high fidelity hydrocode is capable of predicting blast loads and directly coupling those loads to structures to predict a mechanical response...
Imaging Systems, Sensors
20109
LLNL researchers have grown and characterized scintillator crystals of Strontium Iodide (SrI2). Scintillator energy resolution and light yield...
Sensors
25112
LLNL's neutron "Pillar Detector" fabrication technology uses semiconductor-based micro-structured elements as an electrical signal generation medium...
Sensors
23511
Transparent ceramic fabrication allows the production of gadolinium- , lutetium-, and terbium-based garnets which are difficult to grow by melt...
Sensors
22810
LLNL has developed a wide band (WB) ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology to detect and image buried objects under a moving vehicle. Efficient and...
Ground Penetrating Radar
21109
The invention utilizes the statistical nature of radiation transport as well as modern processing techniques to implement a physics-based, sequential...
Sensors
25012
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a plastic that can detect neutrons, something previously thought impossible...
Sensors
16208
LLNL's X-ray spectrometers based on STJ have been developed for high-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy. STJ consist of two superconducting thin film...
Sensors
19909
The LLNL detector measures radiation over a large dynamic range, spanning both high hazardous levels and weak levels, including natural background...
Sensors
23411
LLNL has identified solution-grown organic crystals having scintillation efficiency not only close to, but even exceeding that of stilbene.. LLNL's...
Sensors
Stories
LLNL licensee nVIAsoft named as one of the Top 10 Multifactor Authentication Solution Providers for 2019
Enterprise Security magazine awarded nVIAsoft a great honor. nVIAsoft is a startup utilizing lab technology to provide biometric identity solutions—"the world's first contactless biometric in your very hand".
National labs push to get technologies out the door
Many of LLNL's commercialization successes are highlighted in a riveting article in Physics Today about moving lab technology out to the marketplace.
LLNL captures five commercialization grants to advance research and technology projects
LLNL researchers have been awarded five Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) grants from DOE's Office of Technology Transitions (OTT).
