[AndyJackson]

Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for unspecified reasons, The Wall Street Journal reports.... The lab, which is operated by Honeywell International...

Sandia is not a Honeywell operation. It is a federally funded research and development center. It is owned by the Federal Government. It is operated for the government under what is called a Management and Operating Contract held by Honeywell, but that is a vehicle for paying employees on other then government civil service wages. It is an arrangement dating back to the Manhattan Project.

This is important because Sandia does some of the most sensitive work that the government does and as an advanced engineering science laboratory is probably the premier place for any such investigations to be done.

[Agatsu77]

Hey, They said Los Alamos not Sandia.

[GOPJ]

Transformers do not contain software-based control systems and are passive devices, though recent equipment may contain diagnostic electronics, the WSJ said.

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This is important because Sandia does some of the most sensitive work that the government does and as an advanced engineering science laboratory is probably the premier place for any such investigations to be done.

How many lines of code to take to take down a transformer - or hand control to a Chinese satellite? Is this a serious threat?

These things take years to build... we don't build any in the US... Does China build them all? Thanks...

[Reily]

Sandia is managed (I guess you could say operated!) currently by Honeywell International and has been since May 1 2017. When I used to go their it was managed\operated by Lockheed-Martin.

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.” Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric, was formed on October 5, 1949, and, on November 1, 1949, took over management of the Laboratory. The United States Congress designated Sandia Laboratories as a National laboratory in 1979. In October 1993, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) was managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. As of May 2017, management of Sandia National Laboratory transitioned to National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, covering government-owned facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico (SNL/NM); Livermore, California (SNL/CA); Tonopah, Nevada

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia_National_Laboratories