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The Trump administration has partnered with NVIDIA, semiconductor manufacturer AMD and the National Science Foundation-sponsored National Center for Atmospheric Research Wyoming Supercomputer Center in an effort to leverage high-performance computing to aid COVID-19 research.

The Department of Energy seeks industry input on the potential development of connected buildings to boost operational and energy grid efficiency.

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 through a newly formed public-private consortium.

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 simulation activities.

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 environment strategic business, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 27.

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 fuel for Transformational Challenge Reactor development.

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 analytics and public safety operations.

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 in California for nuclear stockpile modernization initiatives.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present John Goodman, chief executive of Accenture Federal Services, as an inductee of the 2020 Wash100 Award for driving information technology efforts within federal agencies, innovation for emerging technology and excellent customer satisfaction.

The Department of Energy has selected BWX Technologies’ Nuclear Operations Group subsidiary to provide a uranium-based fuel under a $3.6M contract.

General Atomics researchers have developed a machine learning-based approach to measuring the nuclear fusion uncertainty levels of the DIII-D tokamak device in San Diego.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present John Vollmer, president of AECOM’s Management Services Group, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for his leadership and achieving substantial growth for AECOM by securing major contract wins across the GovCon sector.

The Department of Energy plans to award $35M in grants to 118 small businesses through the first phase of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs to enable research and development projects.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 10, 2019 — Serco’s North American division received a potential five-year, $95M to support a Department of Labor program that provides counseling and career training services to military personnel transitioning to civilian life, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 3.

The Argonne National Laboratory has fielded a Cerebras Systems-built artificial intelligence computer that works to speed up research and development efforts for deep learning models.