The Office of Personnel Management has appointed James Saunders as chief information security officer, effective Monday. Saunders previously served as CISO at the Small Business Administration before moving to OPM in April 2021. According to a source in federal IT, Saunders has been acting as an “unofficial” CISO since he joined the agency. His LinkedIn […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Paragon Robotics a multimillion-dollar contract to provide tools for monitoring the ambient storage conditions of medical supplies in the Strategic National Stockpile. Paragon said it will help secure critical supplies in the CHEMPACK program, an initiative to maintain deployable containers of nerve agent antidotes. About 1,400 […]
Monica Langley, the deputy chief information officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said cloud computing allows the agency to optimize resources and reduce risks. Speaking at an FCW workshop on public safety, Langley shared that cloud services reduce turnaround times and cut costs for FEMA. She added that cloud modernization efforts allowed the organization […]
Unqork, a software development company, has entered into an agreement to provide its no-code platform to the Department of Health and Human Services. The platform will help the department’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health streamline its development of software for improving business processes, Unqork said Wednesday. OASH oversees the department’s major health offices […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $150 million in funding for projects aimed at reducing the negative environmental impacts of energy technologies and manufacturing. DOE said that the projects’ focus areas include the development of biologically inspired clean energy approaches, reduction in the cost of producing hydrogen, increasing the duration of grid-scale energy storage and […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate and the Israel Ministry of Public Security are seeking proposals for advanced solutions that would improve homeland security and global safety and security. The 2022 call for proposals is being made under the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Homeland Security program. Some of the focus […]
Connecticut-headquartered jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney announced that it has been selected by the Department of Energy to develop novel, high-efficiency hydrogen-fueled propulsion technology for commercial aviation. The program for next-generation aircraft engines is being spearheaded by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Pratt & Whitney said Monday. Geoff Hunt, senior vice president of […]
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has awarded fission power technology developer Oklo a $4.5 million cost-share project to develop sensor technologies for high-fidelity material counting. In collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory, Oklo will pair its solution with artificial intelligence to improve the detection of anomalies at power facilities. DOE awarded the […]
The Postal Regulatory Commission, a government body that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, has appointed Russell Rappel-Schmid as its first chief data officer. Rappel-Schmid will lead the commission’s data governance functions. He will also oversee efforts to comply with the OPEN Government Data Act, PRC said. The OPEN Government Data Act requires federal agencies to […]
The Department of Energy has launched the third part of its Grid Optimization Competition. Managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Challenge 3 of the GO Competition is focused on developing software management solutions that can help address challenges in the power grid. The competition supports the Biden administration’s vision of improving the reliability and […]
