The Department of Energy has launched the Building a Better Grid Initiative, a program that focuses on upgrading the United States’ electrical grid to support a more sustainable energy economy. The project stems from the Biden administration’s goals to transition to clean energy production by 2035. According to a notice of intent, the Energy Department […]
San Diego-headquartered XENDEE Corporation announced that it has partnered with Idaho National Laboratory to build a design platform for net-zero carbon microgrids. The platform will consider a wide variety of distributed energy and sustainable technologies, including solar photovoltaic, battery storage, electric vehicle fast-charging stations, hydrokinetic power, hydro-storage, traditional combined heat and power systems, and small […]
The Department of Energy has invested $13.4 million in research and development projects aimed at reducing the negative environmental impacts of single-use plastics. DOE said the funding will go to seven projects seeking to develop ways to recycle plastic films into more valuable materials and develop more recyclable and biodegradable plastic designs. The investment supports […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded software company Cognosante a $545 million task order for supply chain management product line DevSecOps and integration services. The contract has a base year and four option years. Cognosante will develop, deliver and sustain the Supply Chain Management Product line, which handles medical logistics across the VA enterprise. […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has completed its transition to a new integrated system for financial, procurement and asset management. The milestone makes USCG the third Department of Homeland Security component to transition to the Financial System Modernization Solution. The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office and the Transportation Security Administration completed their transitions in October […]
The General Services Administration is seeking feedback on a plan to transfer .gov website management to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The interim rule took effect Monday. According to a GSA notice, the .gov domains should always be available and protected because millions of users rely on the thousands of services that the government […]
The Coast Guard recently adopted a new version of its integrated financial, procurement and asset management system to take much of the burden off clerical work. The new management system, dubbed the Financial System Modernization Solution, emphasizes security, data integrity and more accurate, transparent financial reporting, FedScoop reported Friday. Stacy Marcott, the Department of Homeland […]
Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reiterated the agency’s commitment to driving technological progress in the transportation sector. “Transportation and technology have always gone together,” Buttigieg said remotely on the second day of the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The secretary highlighted the department’s work in overseeing the development of autonomous vehicles, research in new […]
The U.S. Forest Service has partnered with chemical and biological analysis device manufacturer 908 Devices to integrate additional capabilities into an existing handheld spectrometer. Under the collaborative research effort, the two entities will use the MX908 handheld, battery-powered spectrometer to look for marijuana fields on federal lands. The Forest Service and 908 Devices will add […]
President Joe Biden has renominated Ed Gonzalez for the role of director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Biden first selected Gonzalez for the role in April 2021. The nomination expired at the end of the year because the Senate did not vote on the matter, Homeland Security Today reported Thursday. If confirmed for the role, […]
