The first phase of a U.K.-U.S. competition for privacy-enhancing technologies has seen 12 white papers chosen out of 76 entries, with a total of $157,000 distributed among the winners. Participants are competing for funding sourced from a $1.6 million prize pool to develop a way to train artificial intelligence models on sensitive data without revealing […]
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Danny Werfel as the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Werfel is currently a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group. He oversees BCG’s federal and public sector teams and works with governments worldwide to identify key opportunities. Werfel was the acting IRS commissioner from May to December […]
The General Services Administration has released new beta versions of the USA .gov website and its Spanish counterpart as part of efforts to improve customer experience. Leilani Martinez, acting director of GSA’s public experience portfolio, said GSA noted how and why individuals access the websites and used the information to build the pages from scratch. […]
Raytheon Intelligence & Space will participate in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Field Test, which aims to gather data to inform new policies and update industry standards for drones to enable safe beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations at low altitudes. RI&S will collaborate with the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership and the Lone Star UAS […]
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality has awarded VMD a five-year, $22 million contract to support fuel compliance verification platforms such as the electronic Transactions, Registration, Reporting and Access information technology ecosystem. Specifically, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company will assist with DevSecOps practices and provide cloud computing, data analytics, robotic process automation […]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has extended its partnership with IDEMIA for biometrics services with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that could run through 2027. The cybersecurity solutions provider is tasked with replacing Livescan fingerprint scanners at USCIS facilities and installing document authentication technology and check-in kiosks. The deal also stipulates operations and maintenance support, IDEMIA said […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has announced her plan to restructure the FCC International Bureau into a new Space Bureau, which will focus on regulating satellite launches. Speaking at a Satellite Industry Association event, the FCC chair said the reorganization would allow the agency to update regulations for space systems and address the growing […]
The Biden administration has announced $1.5 billion in additional funding for the federal government’s national laboratories. According to the Department of Energy, the funding will be used to upgrade facilities, modernize infrastructure and address maintenance projects. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the resources will be used to develop advanced technologies. The funding will come from […]
The Department of Transportation has tapped Mitre to facilitate the sharing of sensitive information on a platform designed to enable collaborative testing of transportation safety solutions prior to deploying the technologies on national highways. The Virtual Open Innovation Collaborative Environment for Safety platform, built by the Federal Highway Administration, will allow transportation innovators to assess […]
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has awarded Oklo a $6.1 million cost-share contract to reuse used nuclear fuel from light water reactors. ARPA-E tasked the company to collaborate with Argonne National Laboratory, Cave Western Reserve University and Deep Isolation, a nuclear waste solutions firm located in Berkeley, California. The work is part […]
