The Department of Energy is slated to award 256 grants worth a combined total of $53M to 211 small businesses to support research and development efforts. Read more
A BWX Technologies subsidiary-led team has received the potential 10-year, $13B Tank Closure Contract at the Department of Energy’s Hanford site, the company reported on Monday. Read more
NVIDIA has launched a third-generation artificial intelligence processing chip designed to train large AI datasets and handle various data center workloads including analytics and inference. Read more
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is using high-performance computing to address the world’s need for a COVID-19 vaccine. Read more
The Department of Energy has awarded a team that consists of Amentum, RSI EnTech and TFE a contract of an undisclosed sum to provide environmental services at over 100 nuclear sites followin... Read more
The Department of Energy intends to invest $30M in research efforts on artificial intelligence and machine learning for system management and science projects. Read more
The Trump administration has partnered with NVIDIA, semiconductor manufacturer AMD and the National Science Foundation-sponsored National Center for Atmospheric Research Wyoming Supercompute... Read more
The Department of Energy seeks industry input on the potential development of connected buildings to boost operational and energy grid efficiency. Read more
Several U.S. government, commercial and academic organizations have vowed to provide high-performance computing resources to support COVID-19 research and development efforts worldwide throu... Read more
A research team for the Department of Energy’s COVID-19 disease analysis initiative has deployed IBM’s Summit high-performance computing platform to support virus behavior modeling and simul... Read more
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 13, 2020 — Tom Foster, former president and project manager at Savannah River Remediation, has taken a new role as chief operating officer of Amentum’s nuclear and e... Read more
A BWX Technologies subsidiary has secured a contract of an undisclosed value from the Department of Energy-sponsored Oak Ridge National Laboratory to produce tristructural-isotropic nuclear... Read more
A Verizon business unit has partnered with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to install the former’s 5G network into the Department of Energy lab to assess potential 5G applications in a... Read more
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has partnered with the National Nuclear Security Administration to deploy an exascale computer to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory... Read more
Jerry McGinn on Federal Contract Spending in Response to COVID-19
Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, said federal contract spending related to COVID-19 has become more... Read more