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The Department of Commerce’s information technology chief will soon vacate his position to take a job in Tarrant County, Texas. The department has announced the resignation of Andre Mendes as chief information officer, effective at the end of December. His resignation comes after 14 years of working in the federal government, FedScoop reported. In a […]

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced the assignment of Gina Tourassi as associate laboratory director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. More than 500 researchers work at CCSD, which is in charge of the Frontier exascale supercomputer, ORNL said Monday. The directorate also handles most of the lab’s artificial intelligence, […]

CSS Federal subsidiary C&T has secured several contracts from the  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Awarded were the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, a task order for Community Providers and Local Students Special Innovation Project and a task order for Skilled Nursing Facility Setting CoreQ Short Stay Discharge Satisfaction Questionnaire […]

The Social Security Administration has implemented organizational changes to allow the agency to accommodate technology modernization. Kilolo Kijakazi, acting commissioner of social security, said the reorganization aims to align IT strategy and initiatives while driving innovation. The effort includes renaming the Office of Systems to the Office of the Chief Information Officer and moving key […]

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has called for more funding to compete with China on technology. At the Reagan Defense Forum in California, she singled out the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, the entity responsible for export controls, DefenseNews reported. Raimondo pointed out that the bureau’s budget has stayed at $200 million for […]

Using diamonds dilated into thin films may make quantum networks more feasible, according to research by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and Cambridge University. Q-NEXT, an Argonne-led DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, partly supported the research. In their quantum network engineering study, the researchers said they […]

The Transportation Security Administration is eyeing enhancements to its data management strategy as part of efforts to improve internal operations. Kristin Ruiz, deputy chief information officer of the TSA, said the first step for the agency is to catalog disparate data located across various ports of entry, govern its storage and share it responsibly across […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced a pilot program to drive semiconductor research and development as part of the CHIPS for America initiative. The Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program will fast-track the patent application process for qualifying chipmaking innovations, USPTO said. According to Kathi Vidal, USPTO director and undersecretary of commerce for IP, accelerating […]