Stephen Streiffer is set to join Oak Ridge National Laboratory as its new director in October. UT-Battelle, which operates ORNL for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, appointed Streiffer, who currently serves as interim director at DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He took on the role as Stanford University’s vice president for SLAC in […]
Wellington Lee, a cybersecurity expert at Sandia National Laboratories, said the Untitled Goose Tool was developed to gather and analyze cyber intrusion data independently of a cloud environment’s capabilities. Untitled Goose Tool is a free suite of programs built to spot malicious activity on Microsoft Azure environments for organizations, ranging from small businesses to large […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking industry input on the agency’s identity, credential and access management modernization effort. According to a request for information, the VA wants the industry to share ICAM best practices and solutions that can improve the department’s ICAM reliability, usability, functionality and resiliency. The RFI was released after the VA […]
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has received $1.67 million in funding from the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate for research on upgrading the DHS emergency response structure. The laboratory’s work will focus on strengthening next-generation emergency operations centers and supporting state, local, tribal and territorial emergency managers. According to […]
The Department of Energy has awarded $11.7 million in funding to six quantum computing projects centered on computational science. The six projects study the limitations of intermediate-scale quantum processors and aim to develop tools allowing researchers to determine if a quantum processor is adequate to advance computational science even without a formal error correction on […]
The Federal Aviation Administration has clarified that it does not use ChatGPT after a Department of Transportation document indicated that air traffic personnel were employing the tool to support code writing. Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot whose underlying neural network is capable of processing and producing human-like text. It is utilized to answer […]
The National Institutes of Health has selected ASRC Federal Data Solutions to collect and analyze environmental health data under a five-year, $90 million contract for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Division of Translational Toxicology. The company will develop automated data management pipelines to speed up data collection, curation and reporting. Contract work will […]
Ball Aerospace has been chosen to design the radio frequency front-end system for the National Center of Atmospheric Research’s Airborne Phased Array Radar program. The company and NCAR partnered in years of studies on the system. The two will now collaborate on its final proof of concept. Designed as NCAR’s next-generation tool for critical weather […]
Solution Technology Systems, doing business as Pluribus Digital, has received a $135 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Pluribus Digital, a woman-owned small business, will provide the DHS with biometrics information management services, IT operations and maintenance and development solutions for the agency’s customer profile management systems and […]
Jay Lewis, formerly a partner at Microsoft’s Silicon Projects, has joined the CHIPS Research and Development Office, where he will oversee programmatic and functional areas supporting the National Semiconductor Technology Center. The Department of Commerce expects that a new independent, nonprofit entity would begin operating the NSTC, which supports the development of innovative semiconductor technology […]
