The Department of Homeland Security has issued Volt Athletics, a Seattle-based developer of fitness software, a $199,730 phase 1 other transaction authority award to continue developing its artificial intelligence-powered platform. Volt Athletics’ platform, Volt, is planned to be used to improve the health and wellness of the department’s workforce, DHS Science and Technology Directorate said […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Alpha Omega Integration a $56 million contract to support the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Alpha Omega will offer its system administration, networking, help desk infrastructure, information security, database management, web development and other solutions and services to support NOAA and NASA IT systems. The […]
The Department of Homeland Security partnered with the International Association of Chiefs of Police and other law enforcement organizations to host the 2022 Intelligence Summit, which took place in Alexandria, Virginia on Aug. 17 and 18. The event was part of the agency’s efforts to empower, inform and engage law enforcement and homeland security partners […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $28 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for research and development efforts in hydropower, which currently accounts for 31.5 percent of America’s renewable electricity generation. DOE said it will issue three funding opportunity announcements covering technologies such as pumped storage hydropower, which will enable the intermittent production of renewable […]
Charles Hardy has assumed the role of chief architect at the General Services Administration, effective Aug. 14. He now serves as a senior adviser to GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan and Nina Albert, commissioner of the agency’s Public Buildings Service. Hardy will provide counsel on matters related to federal architecture and administer the Design Excellence, historic […]
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer, capable of performing at 1.1 exaflops or over a quintillion calculations per second. According to Doug Kothe, associate laboratory director of the lab’s Computing and Computational Science Directorate, the machine’s novel architecture enables “unprecedented” machine learning, data insights and automation that could […]
The U.S. Geological Survey Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory has awarded KBR a $20 million contract to provide operations support across multiple locations. Under the terms of the re-compete contract, KBR will deliver sustained support to more than 330 operational or proposed stations in 69 countries, including 230 in the continental United States. KBR said the firm-fixed-priced […]
The General Services Administration is raising the ceiling of the Alliant 2 contract from $50 billion to $75 billion. Alliant 2 is a contract vehicle that allows government agencies to procure customized IT services and solutions. Sonny Hashmi, the commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said there are already over 465 Alliant 2 task orders […]
David Applegate has been sworn in as the director of the U.S. Geological Survey. According to Deb Haaland, the secretary of the Department of the Interior, Applegate will help strengthen the integrity of DOI’s work and develop the science needed to understand the Earth’s climate. For his part, Applegate shared that the USGS, under his […]
The Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy intends to release up to $44 million across 17 awards on projects that aim to develop and test technologies that can enable wide-scale geothermal deployment. A solicitation has been issued in support of enhanced geothermal systems research. Investing in technology development is expected to […]
