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, […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $35 million in funding for small businesses working to develop clean energy and climate solutions. DOE said the funding will be distributed among 158 projects across 29 states. The projects are expected to advance technologies such as climate research tools and enhanced batteries for electric vehicles, DOE said Thursday. […]
Small businesses Aquia and RevaComm will team up on a five-year contract to support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Continuous Authorization and Verification Engine initiative, otherwise known as batCAVE. Modeled after the U.S. Air Force’s Platform One, batCAVE was launched to transform security approaches to software development. CMS Chief Information Security Officer Robert […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Office of Central Processing is seeking machine learning solutions to translate weather forecasts into Spanish and other languages. Currently, NOAA manually translates announcements from the National Hurricane Center Atlantic into Spanish through the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office San Juan, according to a request for information posted on […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded New Light Technologies a five-year contract to support the Center for Domestic Preparedness. Under the contract, NLT will deploy and integrate new web-based mapping, geospatial and analytics capabilities to improve training and exercises delivery at CDP. The company will also develop and host a cloud-based platform to provide […]
The Department of Energy touted its top accomplishments in 2021, saying it had a standout year as it moved at “lightning speed” towards its environmental objectives. The year was spent pioneering “game-changing” scientific research, advancing important nuclear security and continuing cleanup missions, the DOE said Thursday. In a statement, the DOE called itself America’s “Solutions Department,” […]
Jelena McWilliams, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., filed her resignation on Friday following partisan strife within the agency. Her resignation will take effect on Feb. 4. McWilliams’ departure follows an attempt by FDIC board member Martin Gruenberg and other Democrats on the board to take control of the agency away from her. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration is requesting information on methods and techniques for deploying a micro-segmented zero trust architecture. Zero trust is a modern cybersecurity model that functions on the assumption that a breach is inevitable and has likely already occurred. The architecture attempts to address the weakness by dynamically limiting user access to only what […]
The Los Alamos National Laboratory has appointed nuclear weapons technician John Benner as associate director of weapons production. He will start in his new job on Jan. 3. In his new leadership role, Benner will manage 1,400 employees, working with other organizations across LANL’s nuclear weapons complex and overseeing tasks related to pit production and […]
The Government Accountability Office has inducted seven members to its Health Information Technology Advisory Committee. Members of the committee will advise the national coordinator for health IT on policies and standards related to the implementation of systems that advance the electronic access, exchange and use of health information, GAO said. HITAC was established in December […]
