The Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy intends to release up to $44 million across 17 awards on projects that aim to develop and test technologies that can enable wide-scale geothermal deployment. A solicitation has been issued in support of enhanced geothermal systems research. Investing in technology development is expected to […]
NASA has selected seven teams to continue working on their lunar power supply and storage technologies under phase 2, level 2 of the Watts on the Moon Challenge. The teams won the phase 2, level 1 round in which they submitted detailed engineering designs and analyses, among other technical documentation. A panel of judges evaluated […]
Department of State Cyberspace and Digital Policy Bureau officials met with private sector leaders in San Francisco, California, to establish a stronger technology partnership with the commercial tech industry. According to a department spokesperson, the visit is expected to be performed frequently to fuel collaborative efforts addressing several tech policy issues. Jennifer Bachus, a senior […]
Francisco Hernandez has been serving Capgemini as principal for over five years. He has been tasked with overseeing market development and delivery across a portfolio of services for Capgemini Government Solutions‘ finance and regulatory market. The services include digital transformation, Salesforce application development and platform administration and IT project management. Hernandez is also responsible for […]
Sanjay Parthasarathy is the vice president of strategy and business development at Leidos’ defense business. His responsibilities include forming and implementing strategies and leading front-end business development and marketing engine operations to establish an efficient and balanced opportunity pipeline. Prior to the said role, Parthasarathy worked as Leidos Defense’s vice president of business development. He […]
Scott Rosebush serves as the senior program director at Cubic Mission & Performance Solutions. Rosebush joined Cubic in June 2019 after a 12-year career at Northrop Grumman where he held the position of advanced communications and signals intelligence director responsible for leading a portfolio of research and development programs. Prior to the said position, the […]
Brian Merrick is set to depart from the State Department, where he has been the director of cloud programs for three years. Sources said the official will continue serving in government. Merrick started working at the department in 2018 as deputy manager for the IT Cost Center Working Capital Fund under the Bureau of Information […]
The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is developing artificial intelligence-enabled systems that could help produce nuclear energy at a lower cost compared to existing nuclear power plants. Work is being performed under a $1 million, three-year project funded by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy’s Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies program. The goal is to […]
The Cyber Safety Review Board is enhancing its investigation process using lessons learned from its Log4j vulnerability probe. During the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, CSRB Chair Rob Silvers, who is also the undersecretary of homeland security for strategy, policy and plans, acknowledged how the initial review of the vulnerability demonstrated the effectiveness of the concept […]
The Federal Communications Commission will start a new inquiry to help it revise space rules, focusing on in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing. FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel highlighted the importance of amending the existing regulatory frameworks, saying that the current rules “were largely built for another era.” The official noted the potential benefits of the changes, […]
