The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Reston, Virginia-based Leidos a potential five-year, $76 million prime contract to continue supporting the Office of Child Support Enforcement. The contractor will provide operations and maintenance, continued system development and enhancement, data center operations and disaster recovery center development. Work will support the OCSE’s Federal Parent […]
The Department of Energy‘s spending data on USASpending .gov, the official open data source for federal spending, might be off by at least $34 billion, the agency’s auditor said. DOE’s Office of the Inspector General attributed the discrepancy to 15 procurement actions made years ago with errors that persisted through the first quarter of fiscal […]
Woolpert has secured a spot on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coastal Geospatial Services Contract. The five-year, $49 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract calls for data acquisition, thematic mapping, high-resolution topographic and bathymetric product generation, photogrammetric mapping, survey and control services, geographic information system services, cadastral mapping and geospatial training, Woolpert said. Dave Stein, a geographer […]
Charles Rettig, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, urged Congress on Thursday to support the Biden administration’s proposed 10-year, $80 billion funding boost for the agency. Rettig wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Post that the funding boost will help the agency support its clients. He added that the IRS has limited […]
New Jersey-based Anterix announced the National Renewable Energy Laboratory‘s successful completion of Phases I and II of its High Impact project, an accomplishment that validates the performance of the company’s 900 MHz private LTE network for critical grid communications. Both phases of the project tested the performance of private LTE over the 900 MHz spectrum and […]
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking feedback from the American public about new artificial intelligence and facial recognition applications. The activity would allow the agency to gauge the public’s perception of automation and biometrics. Kathleen Deloughery, a DHS Science and Technology Directorate program manager, said the organization needs to hear from individuals to better […]
The Department of Energy has announced up to $45 million in funding to support technology production efforts aimed at transforming buildings into net carbon storage structures. Of that funding, $41 million will go toward the Harnessing Emissions into Structures Taking Inputs from the Atmosphere program, the DOE said. HESTIA, which is managed by the Advanced Research Projects […]
The Department of Energy has invested an additional $1.3 million in Scanalytics’ surface sensor technology, designed to optimize utility usage and occupant comfort in buildings. DOE’s plus-up contract brings the total amount that Scanalytics received since the start of the project to just over $2.1 million. The additional funding will be used to further scale […]
Mobility 4 Public Safety has received $1.5 million in funding from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to further develop its Bridge 4 Public Safety messaging and collaboration platform. Bridge4PS is a first responder solution designed as a smartphone application offering secure messaging, picture, video and file sharing. It is interoperable across […]
Vector Innovative Solutions, a joint venture between Vector Solutions and Advanced Technologies and Laboratories, has been awarded a contract to provide drone commercial air services at a decommissioned U.S. nuclear production complex. The Hanford Site was home to the world’s first full-scale plutonium reactor and was used to produce materials for the first nuclear bomb. […]
