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  • DHS, Industry to Assess First Responder Tech Through Operational Experimentation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS, Industry to Assess First Responder Tech Through Operational Experimentation

    The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate and industry will conduct an operational experimentation from Dec. 4 to 5 in Houston to assess technology platforms used by first responders. DHS said Tuesday it will work with 13 Houston-based public safety agencies and commercial partners to evaluate systems through the Next Generation First Responder – […] More

  • Oak Ridge National Lab Seeks Commercial Partner for Cybersecurity Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oak Ridge National Lab Seeks Commercial Partner for Cybersecurity Tool

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has launched a competitive process for interested vendors to apply for licensing rights to commercialize a patented malware detection tool, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. ORNL seeks an industry partner to market the Heartbeat technology designed to trace malicious codes through a device’s energy usage. “Malware tries to hide […] More

  • DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev't Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev’t Projects

    The Energy Department has announced 40 projects that will share up to $98M in total funds to build technology platforms that would update the U.S. energy system. DOE said Thursday the funding support is part of the OPEN 2018 program managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Companies, universities and nonprofit organizations proposed projects focused […] More

  • DOE to Help Fund 11 Industry-Led Nuclear Tech Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE to Help Fund 11 Industry-Led Nuclear Tech Projects

    The Energy Department has chosen 11 industry-led projects across six states to receive $18M in federal grants to advance commercial nuclear technology platforms. DOE said Tuesday the funding awards are part of the third round of its funding opportunity announcement, titled “U.S. Industry Opportunities for Advanced Nuclear Technology Development.” The cost-shared projects have a total value […] More

  • DOE OKs Technology Transfer Initiatives to Foster Government-Industry Engagement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE OKs Technology Transfer Initiatives to Foster Government-Industry Engagement

    The Department of Energy has authorized two new technology transfer initiatives aiming to foster collaboration between contractors and national laboratories. DOE said Friday these initiatives work to lessen barriers hindering cooperation between industry and national laboratories, and aim to support propagation of resulting technologies across markets. The first of these efforts, titled the Laboratory Agreement […] More

  • Energy Department Launches Electrical Grid Modernization Competition; Sec. Rick Perry Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Energy Department Launches Electrical Grid Modernization Competition; Sec. Rick Perry Quoted

    The Energy Department has started administering a competition that gathers developers to accelerate the distribution of power across the American electricity grid. In the first phase of the Grid Optimization Competition, participants are tasked to develop and assess their own algorithms on mock power system models in an effort to address security constrained optimal power […] More

  • David Brown Named President of BWXT-Aptim JV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Brown Named President of BWXT-Aptim JV

    David Brown, a 35-year nuclear operations veteran, has been appointed president of a joint venture between BWX Technologies‘ technical services group and Aptim‘s federal services unit. He will lead the BWSR business that currently supports decommissioning, demolition and operations at multiple Naval Nuclear Laboratory sites through a contract with Fluor, BWXT said Tuesday. Brown previously served as director of […] More

  • DOE, General Motors, MathWorks Sponsor Eco-Friendly Vehicle Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE, General Motors, MathWorks Sponsor Eco-Friendly Vehicle Competition

    Twelve universities will work to develop an eco-friendly road vehicle for a Department of Energy-supported competition with General Motors and software firm MathWorks serving as co-sponsors. The four-year EcoCAR Mobility Challenge tasks teams to each modify a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer into an an energy-efficient vehicle geared for carsharing uses, EcoCAR said Friday. Participants will employ […] More

  • DOE Plans Joint Solicitation for Two Energy Innovation Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Plans Joint Solicitation for Two Energy Innovation Programs

    The Energy Department intends to release a joint solicitation notice in November for two programs that aim to create energy-efficiency systems for manufacturing and material development processes. DOE said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice it will award up to $300K to U.S. manufacturers to conduct energy innovation projects through the department’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing and High Performance […] More

  • DOE Extends Jacobs' Nuclear Waste Site Cleanup Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Extends Jacobs’ Nuclear Waste Site Cleanup Contract

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received a one-year extension contract from the Energy Department to continue environmental remediation efforts at the Columbia River and parts of the decommissioned Hanford nuclear production site. The company said Wednesday it will extend work under a previously awarded 10-year contract through Sept. 20, 2019. Services include demolition, radioactive material retrieval, ground remediation […] More

  • DOE to Fund 64 R&D Projects Under Commercial Energy Innovation Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE to Fund 64 R&D Projects Under Commercial Energy Innovation Program

    The Energy Department has announced that it will allocate more than $20M for 64 projects aimed at developing innovative energy technologies and promoting them to the commercial industry. DOE will support teams of national laboratories and private sector companies through the Office of Technology Transitions’ Technology Commercialization Fund, which will also require private, non-federal entities to […] More

  • HPE to Build Supercomputer for National Lab Energy R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE to Build Supercomputer for National Lab Energy R&D

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has begun development work on a high-performance computing system designed to help the National Renewable Energy Laboratory speed up research and development of energy technology platforms across data sciences, vehicle and wind power areas. The Eagle supercomputer is built to process HPC workloads at a speed of up to 8 petaflops through […] More