The Department of Energy has earmarked $61 million in funding for the development of new quantum devices and a quantum internet. DOE said breakthroughs in quantum information science can lead to new forms of computing, simulation, communication and sensing, allowing researchers to take on bigger problems. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said DOE’s national laboratories are […]
Echodyne has secured $454,099 in funding from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to explore new use cases for its Metamaterials Electronically Scanning Array radar. The Phase 5 Other Transaction Agreement funding was awarded under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program, which aims to leverage commercial technologies for homeland security use cases, DHS […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation have extended the deadline of a request for information related to providing artificial intelligence researchers more computing resources. On July 23, OSTP and NSF requested comments to inform the work of the National AI Research Resource Task Force. Congress put the […]
The Internal Revenue Service wants to procure augmented reality solutions to improve the user experience of taxpayers accessing its digital services. According to a draft request for proposals posted on SAM .gov, the IRS intends to utilize AR to overlay contextual information on existing public-facing tax forms, especially those accessed through mobile devices, FCW reported […]
The Department of Energy has announced new funding in support of nine research projects that will explore and develop new methods for capturing and storing carbon from the air. The funding amounts to $24 million and supports direct air capture, an expanding decarbonization field and a key element in the Biden administration’s plan to achieve […]
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created modeling software designed to plot the energy profiles of about 129 buildings in the United States. ORNL said the Automatic Building Energy Modeling software suite uses publicly available data to create visualizations of energy consumption, informing efforts related to retrofitting and carbon emissions. Backed by the […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ new product-oriented approach to software development has improved customer experience and developer accountability, an official said. Daniel McCune, acting associate deputy assistant secretary of VA’s Enterprise Program Management Office, explained that the department previously passed products from one team to another, leading to a disconnect between the product and its […]
The General Services Administration has issued a request for information for the upcoming Governmentwide IT Transparency Professional Support Services contract, with responses due Aug. 31. Work under GITPSS would support the need for more information about how the federal government spends and manages its information technology budget, Nextgov reported. One of the main services required […]
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service wants to simplify its data footprint to allow for the easier application of security, a key official said. In doing so, however, the bureau must still make sure data remains transparent and accessible to the public, Federal News Network reported Thursday. Justin Marsico, the Fiscal Service’s chief data officer, […]
The Department of State has failed to comply with longstanding recommendations from its inspector general’s office regarding how it can better manage its information technology portfolio. The issues date back to 2016 when the IG called out the State Department, particularly the Bureau of Information Resource Management, for not aligning IT investments with the defined […]
