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 »BWXT Subsidiary-Led Team Secures $13B Award for DoE’s Hanford TCC; Rex Geveden Quoted
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 Unveils AI Offering to Support Argonne Nat’l Lab’s COVID-19 R&D Workloads
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 »HPE Uses AI, Supercomputing to Help Researchers Develop COVID-19 Vaccine
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is using high-performance computing to address the world’s need for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Read More »DOE Taps RSI, TFE, Amentum to Perform Post-Closure Nuclear Site Mgmt
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 following the completion of closure activities.
Read More »DOE Allots New Funds for AI Research
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 »White House Adds Key Members to COVID-19 R&D Consortium; Michael Kratsios Quoted
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.
Read More »DOE Issues RFI for Potential Smart Building Program
The Department of Energy seeks industry input on the potential development of connected buildings to boost operational and energy grid efficiency.
Read More »Public-Private Consortium Aims to Hasten COVID-19 Response With Supercomputing Tech; Michael Kratsios, Teresa Carlson Quoted
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.
Read More »IBM’s ‘Summit’ Supercomputer Helps DOE Researchers Study COVID-19 Behavior
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.
Read More »Tom Foster Assumes COO Role at Amentum Nuclear Unit; John Vollmer Quoted
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.
Read More »BWXT Subsidiary to Produce Nuclear Fuel for DOE Reactor Project
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.
Read More »DOE’s Pacific Northwest Nat’l Lab Taps Verizon for 5G Network Services
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.
Read More »HPE to Deliver ‘El Capitan’ Supercomputer to DOE for Nuclear Modernization Efforts
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.
Read More »John Goodman, Chief Executive of Accenture Federal Services, Named to 2020 Wash100 for IT Modernization Efforts, Emerging Technology Innovation, Customer Service
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.
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