Lawmakers expressed concerns over proposed cuts to the budget sought by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for fiscal year 2025. In a hearing before the Environment Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on Tuesday, Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., expressed his disappointment over the reduced proposed funding for the agency’s severe weather […]
The National Science Foundation has released a new framework to assess the potential national security threats of the research grant proposals that it receives. The guide, Trusted Research Using Safeguards and Transparency, seeks to strengthen international research cooperation, while also helping protect U.S. taxpayers’ research investments. TRUST includes a new NSF effort on weighing potential […]
The Department of the Treasury is seeking public feedback on the uses, opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence in the financial services sector. A request for information posted by the department builds on its recent cybersecurity and fraud prevention efforts and aligns with actions by other federal agencies. Through the RFI, insights will be gathered […]
The National Science Foundation is seeking proposals for cyber-physical systems to better understand how the technology could be used to open up new opportunities for addressing new challenges. The NSF program seeks to establish the core research behind the complex CPS, including uncovering “cross-cutting, fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber […]
The U.S. Postal Service has selected MetTel to upgrade its Plain Old Telephone Lines infrastructure across 17,000 locations nationwide. The project, leveraging the communication service provider’s POTS Transformation solution, will convert USPS’s existing copper-based phone system to a digital network, delivering improved reliability, increased visibility and advanced features at a lower cost, MetTel said. Importantly, […]
The Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office has awarded Tandem PV a $4.7 million funding to commercialize its thin-film solar photovoltaic technology. The award is part of a broader, $71 million DOE effort to bolster the U.S. clean energy sector and promote domestic manufacturing of solar technology, Tandem PV said. According to Tandem PV, […]
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has found that 5G would be a great tool in increasing the resilience of power systems and telecommunications infrastructure amid the growing number of cyberattacks. In the “5G Securely Energized and Resilient” report, the NREL created a 5G research platform inside a replicated military microgrid and tested its resiliency against […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded Analygence a $125 million, five-year contract to address the agency’s National Vulnerability Database backlog. The NVD backlog started in February and led to a significant slowdown in its updates, prompting NIST to consider private supporthelp, Nextgov/FCW reported. Prior to the backlog, cybersecurity professionals relied on the […]
The Department of Energy has launched the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology program to speed up the federal government’s AI research efforts. According to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the FASST initiative would bank on the supercomputing facilities and the scientific expertise of the 17 national laboratories under the DOE. The […]
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University are collaborating to ensure robust and reliable artificial intelligence models. Under the new partnership, the two organizations will work to ensure AI systems are capable of handling challenging national security issues, test and assess the resiliency of AI tools and improve decision-makers’ confidence in using AI-enabled technologies […]
