The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched a $60 million competition aimed at funding small businesses developing climate resilience technologies for the ocean. Under the Ocean-Based Climate Resilience Accelerators program, the government intends to partner with the private sector to form organizations that provide financial support, training and mentorship […]
The Department of Energy has awarded $72 million in funding to support nearly 300 projects addressing multiple energy focus points. The funding will be used to support small businesses with projects focusing on renewable energy, nuclear energy, cybersecurity, manufacturing, artificial intelligence and other initiatives that support the Biden administration’s carbon-free electricity grid and net-zero emissions […]
The Department of Energy plans to grant a combined $2.2 million to 11 joint research efforts between Japan and the United States relating to high-energy physics. Such funds will be used to finance projects of mutual interest to the U.S. and Japan. Subject areas are expected to include the Higgs boson, neutrinos and particle acceleration. […]
New Los Alamos National Laboratory research found that a quantum neural network can be trained using a small amount of simple data, paving the way for less complex machine learning on quantum computers. Authors of the paper include researchers from LANL, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Existing quantum computers use long circuits that produce […]
The Environmental Protection Agency says having limited resources is the reason why thousands of cybersecurity weaknesses have gone unaddressed in the Analytical Radiation Data System, which is used to detect radiological anomalies by processing monitoring data from the air, rain, soil and other materials. According to the agency’s Office of the Inspector General, such vulnerabilities […]
The National Science Foundation has entered into a new cooperative agreement with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to deploy an artificial intelligence-enabled supercomputer in support of AI research. NCSA received a $10 million award for the effort, under which the DeltaAI supercomputer will complement NCSA’s Delta system, which the NSF’s Innovative High-Performance Computing Program […]
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded 20 companies a total of $3.15 million in Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contracts to address key technology needs. The companies will receive up to $150,000 to conduct proof-of-concept research over five months. The key topic areas are accurate and real-time hardware-assisted detection of cyberattacks, air cargo […]
The Office of Special Counsel has directed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to investigate claims of unsafe working conditions that have caused data loss and equipment damage at a research facility near Washington, D.C. Personnel at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center filed whistleblower complaints in May describing dysfunctional safety systems and general facilities such as bathrooms. […]
The Department of Energy is moving to make its federally funded research publicly accessible as part of a Biden administration drive to improve data transparency. Under a revised public access plan, scientific papers sponsored by the agency will become immediately available for free. An August 2022 memo from the White House’s Office of Science and […]
Five Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities have started a study to determine whether artificial intelligence can help diagnose aggressive high-risk prostate cancer, which is likely to spread to other body parts. The Predicting Metastatic Progression of High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer study aims to create an AI algorithm trained using diagnostic images, high-resolution scans of […]
