The Department of Homeland Security is leaning on its centers of excellence for technology-driven solutions to national security threats, an official said. DHS Chief Medical Officer Pritesh Gandhi said the department’s scientific minds are exploring how machine learning and data analytics can combat issues like climate change, biological threats and domestic terrorism, Federal News Network […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $1.1 billion task order to help with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ benefits processing and management efforts. The award was made under the Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology contract. Work for the task will further the VA’s benefits integration initiative, which aims to expand and reuse technologies used with the […]
The Department of Energy has released a new report highlighting the progress made by public and private sector partners involved in the Better Buildings Initiative. Launched in 2011, the initiative aims to make the nation’s homes, commercial buildings and industrial plants more energy efficient through investment upgrades and the sharing of best practices. According to […]
REI Systems has been awarded a $140 million blanket purchase agreement to develop low-code solutions for the Food and Drug Administration. The five-year award will support workflow management programs used by the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, REI said Monday. CDER is tasked with regulating over-the-counter and prescription drugs, including biological therapeutics and […]
Initiate Government Solutions, a Florida-based health technology company, will continue providing business and data analysis services to the Department of Health and Human Services. Work will be done under a three-year task order for the Business Intelligence and Analytics Support Services contract. IGS said it will provide data analysis, visualization designs and interactive business intelligence […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $35 million for 15 projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions and increasing the availability of renewable biofuel. The funding will advance technologies that have the potential to decarbonize biorefining processes in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors, DOE said. DOE said biofuel is currently produced almost exclusively through fermentation, […]
The Department of Health and Human Services is using a biosurveillance system to enable a coordinated response and better data sharing amid the global pandemic. Dubbed HHS Protect, the system serves as a common data source to make sense of the COVID-19 situation in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention helped build […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has formed a group consisting of government and industry members that will develop strategies to protect space systems supporting the nation’s critical infrastructure. The Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group will work towards making commercial space systems more resilient and secure. Efforts will be focused on addressing areas that […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has approved temporary and targeted Jones Act waivers for two companies in response to the Colonial Pipeline disruption. The Jones Act is a federal law that requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported by American-made ships operated by U.S. citizens or permanent residents. DHS said Wednesday that it is […]
The Department of Energy is investing $6.2 million in eight university-led projects to advance research on efficient hydrogen gas turbines. The research grantees are Georgia Tech, University of Central Florida, San Diego State University, Purdue University, Purdue University, Ohio State University, University of Alabama and University of California, Irvine. With the exception of SDSU, which […]
