The Department of Defense has earmarked up to $34.5 million for two new funding opportunities focused on clean energy and climate solutions technologies. The efforts will fund data science methods and artificial intelligence technologies for use in clean energy, energy efficiency and extreme weather predictions, the Department of Energy said. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm […]
Red 6, a California-based defense technology company, is in the final stages of developing its video game-like training simulator for Air Force fighter pilots, according to an executive from the company. CEO and founder Dan Robinson said Red 6 spent the past three years working with the Air Force to develop the Advanced Tactical Augmented […]
The Government Accountability Office announced that it will conduct a review of the Air Force’s decision-making process for transferring U.S. Space Command’s headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. GAO’s move was in response to a request by Rep. Doug Lamborn in February. In a letter to GAO, Lamborn said the Air Force’s decision to move the […]
The Department of Energy’s national cybersecurity plans do not fully address risks to the U.S. grid’s distribution systems, which carry electricity from transmission systems to consumers, according to the Government Accountability Office. Distribution systems are becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks partly because of their increasing reliance on industrial control systems that allow remote access […]
The Department of Energy has committed $30 million for quantum information science research to help scientists understand nature at the nanoscopic scale. The funding will go to five Nanoscale Science Research Centers, which are interdisciplinary research centers that work on new tools and computing capabilities, the Department of Energy said. “Quantum computing and devices are […]
SOS International has won a spot on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s potential $12.6 billion contract vehicle for mission-critical information technology and technical support services. The Solutions for IT Enterprise III contract vehicle is a 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity deal that also provides support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, SOSi said Wednesday. With its spot on SITE III, […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with Intel to advance the domestic development of application-specific integrated circuit platforms. ASICs are specialized integrated circuits designed to excel in a specific task rather than be used for general purposes. The three-year Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications partnership will enable the design of ASICs […]
The Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response has announced three new research programs aimed at enhancing the cyber and physical security of the U.S. energy system. The projects will help address supply chain vulnerabilities, protect critical infrastructure from interference and build a talent pipeline for next-generation cybersecurity, the Department of […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency might struggle to identify and respond to cybersecurity incidents until it fully implements its organization plan, the Government Accountability Office said in a report. GAO said CISA has so far finished two of the three phases of its plan, and that only a third of the final phase has […]
Boeing announced that the core stage it built for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket completed hot-fire testing on Thursday. The hot-fire test was conducted at NASA’s Stennis Space Center as part of the SLS rocket’s Green Run test campaign on the B-2 test stand, Boeing said. John Shannon, Boeing’s SLS vice president and program manager, […]
