The Senate has voted 61-31 to confirm Shalanda Young as the permanent director of the Office of Management and Budget. OMB is responsible for overseeing policy, budget, management and regulatory functions across the executive branch. Young has been serving for nearly a year as deputy budget director and as acting OMB director, The Hill reported […]
The Department of Energy has allocated $35 million in Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer funds to support science and technology product and service development. Each project will receive around $200,000, which will last between six months and one year. As part of the funding round, researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory […]
Kronos Fusion Energy has called on the federal government to subsidize the private sector’s development of fusion energy technologies, which the company said are critical to the United States’ bid for energy independence. Operation Warp Speed, a public-private joint effort to accelerate the development of a coronavirus vaccine, demonstrated the effectiveness of providing direct subsidies […]
Virginia-headquartered Cognosante announced that its customer experience business unit, CognoConnected, was awarded the No Surprises Help Desk contract by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The three-year contract consists of a base year and two option years with an approximate value of $26 million, Cognosante said Thursday. Under the deal, the company will support […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has appointed Mara Winn as co-chair of the agency’s Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, succeeding Bob Kolasky, who is leaving government. The ICT SCRM is led by a government official and two industry representatives. Winn will be joined by a member of USTelecom and […]
Oklo Inc., a designer of modern nuclear reactors, has been awarded a $5 million cost-share project in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory and Deep Isolation. The funding was awarded through the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, which has launched its Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems program, Oklo […]
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced $36 million in funding would be provided for 11 projects seeking new ways to use nuclear power as a reliable source of clean energy while limiting the amount of waste produced from advanced nuclear reactors. Approximately 50 percent of America’s carbon-free electricity is produced by nuclear […]
Brandon Wales, executive director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said small- and medium-sized organizations must prepare for ransomware attacks as cyber actors continue their operations. Speaking at an event hosted by the Aspen Institute, Wales said there is a potential for Russia to escalate its destabilizing actions in Ukraine and impact organization outside […]
Keysight Technologies, a maker of electronics testing equipment, said it has been cleared to develop 6G technologies using frequency bands between 95 GHz and 3 THz. The company said it was granted the first Federal Communications Commission Spectrum Horizons experimental license for sub-THz 6G. The license will accelerate the development of technologies used in data-intensive […]
Virginia-headquartered American Systems announced that it has been awarded a $118 million task order under the General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 contract to support the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection. The single-award task calls for the performance of independent verification and validation services on all products and systems acquired for border control […]
