The Department of Homeland Security announced seven winners of a competition for developers of innovative and creative climate-friendly cooling solutions to protect people in extreme heat conditions. The Cooling Solutions Challenge was launched to find groundbreaking solutions to protect the public against heatstrokes, the nation’s leading cause of weather-related deaths, the DHS’s Science & Technology […]
The Department of Energy is seeking feedback on the Biden administration’s plan to invest nearly $630 million in hydropower facilities. Specifically, the administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides funding for two programs aimed at modernizing U.S. hydropower facilities, making them more energy-efficient and resilient, DOE said Thursday. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the investments signal the […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has updated the National Software Reference Library, a database designed to help law enforcement find incriminating images in electronic devices. Doug White, a computer scientist at NIST, said that while most major crimes are connected to digital media, not every piece of information is relevant to an investigation. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate announced that a total of $9.8 million has been awarded to small businesses to further develop technologies intended to support homeland security mission needs. Nine Phase II contracts were awarded as a result of the Small Business Innovation Research solicitation released in December 2020, the S&T […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has activated a pair of supercomputers designed to improve weather forecasts and climate data. Dogwood and Cactus both have a processing speed of 12.1 petaflops – triple the speed of their predecessors. They also have double the storage at 26 petabytes each, FedScoop reported Tuesday. The systems are Hewlett […]
The Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research has published an unclassified version of its cybersecurity strategy. INR is a member of the Intelligence Community tasked with providing analyses to State Department policymakers and American diplomats. One of the four strategic goals in the five-page document is to modernize and automate security tools across […]
Software services and products company CITI and enterprise artificial intelligence application company C3 AI have received a joint five-year, $90 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to deploy and scale enterprise solutions across the department. Under the Solutioning with Holistic Analytics Restructured for the Enterprise blanket purchase agreement, HHS components will […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate has awarded 30 small businesses a total of $4.48 million in grants under Phase I of the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research program. Under the first phase of the SBIR program, the grantees will look into technologies that support various homeland security fields. The research fields […]
The Department of Energy has announced new investments in the electrification and decarbonization of the U.S. industrial sector. DOE issued a $70 million funding opportunity announcement for the establishment of a seventh Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute focused on electrifying industrial process heating. Kelly Speakes-Backman, principal deputy assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, […]
The Department of Energy has awarded Edgewater Federal Solutions a prime spot on a $50 million contract for mission support services. Edgewater, a provider of mission-critical information technology services, said it will perform work such as operational support, software systems development, cybersecurity and information science in support of DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information. […]
