President Joe Biden said he plans to nominate Maryanne Donaghy to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection. Donaghy currently serves as an attorney general and senior adviser at the University of Delaware’s Biden Institute. She is credited with establishing an inspector general’s office for Philadelphia’s school district, Federal News […]
The Department of Energy said it will invest $128 million in lowering the cost, improving the performance, and accelerating the deployment of solar energy technologies. The federal government also plans to cut the cost of solar energy by 60 percent within the next 10 years, the Department of Energy announced. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm […]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced $20 million in funding for a program aimed at helping communities develop capabilities against terrorism and targeted violence. DHS said the TVTP grant program has four priorities for fiscal year 2021: preventing violent extremism, enhancing local threat management capabilities, implementing solutions for targeted violence and addressing online violence […]
The Department of Homeland Security is looking for sources that can perform administrative and information technology tasks for the Integrated Consortium of Laboratory Networks program. Established in 2005, the ICLN is an interoperable system of laboratory networks operating under the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, DHS said in a request for information posted on […]
David Turk has formally assumed the role of deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. He was sworn in by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm after a bipartisan 98-2 confirmation vote in the Senate. Previously, Turk served as the deputy executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, the DOE said Thursday. During his four-year stint […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a digital platform to modernize the way it administers education benefits under the GI Bill. The VA awarded a contract to Accenture Federal Services to build the Digital GI Bill platform under a 10-year, $453 million task order. Since being enacted into law in 1944, the GI Bill […]
The Department of Energy has awarded 16 teams with contracts amounting to a total of $27.5 million to work on water infrastructure projects aimed at decarbonizing water infrastructure by reducing energy use. Teams from water utilities, universities, manufacturers, national laboratories as well as small- and minority-owned businesses are tasked with using modern technology that could […]
The University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory will help the Department of Homeland Security develop testing criteria for digital contact tracing applications. UW-APL will also help the directorate explore policy considerations for the use of DCT apps, some of which pose privacy and civil liberty concerns, according to DHS. Work will be done under the […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to postpone future rollouts of its new electronic health records system to make way for a strategic review of persisting issues. The modernized EHR system, which the agency created in collaboration with Cerner, is intended to serve as a single records management system for veterans. It is also […]
The Department of Defense has earmarked up to $34.5 million for two new funding opportunities focused on clean energy and climate solutions technologies. The efforts will fund data science methods and artificial intelligence technologies for use in clean energy, energy efficiency and extreme weather predictions, the Department of Energy said. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm […]
