Retrospective on the Seniors' Council Tier 1 LDRD portfolio.

Ballard, William Parker

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: Climatic Change;    Photovoltaic Conversion;    14 Solar Energy;    Security;    Quantum Computers;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1048487
RP-ID  :  SAND2012-3622
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  1048487

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

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.