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  • Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant

    Battelle has completed a 15-year project to store carbon dioxide at American Electric Power‘s coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. The nonprofit research and development organization said Thursday it initiated the carbon capture and storage project at Mountaineer Plant in 2002 with funds from the Energy Department‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Neeraj Gupta, Battelle senior research […] More

  • Battelle to Help Produce Coal Ash-Based Rare Earth Oxides Under DOE Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Help Produce Coal Ash-Based Rare Earth Oxides Under DOE Project

    Battelle has teamed up with Rare Earth Salts on a potential $875,000 Energy Department project to produce rare earth oxides derived from coal ash. Battelle said Tuesday it will combine its acid digestion process with RES’ novel separation technique to generate rare earth oxide products from coal fly ash sources with a purity of at least 90 […] More

  • DOE Taps Leidos to Support National Surveys on Commercial Building Energy Consumption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Taps Leidos to Support National Surveys on Commercial Building Energy Consumption

    Leidos has received a four-year, $25 million task order from the Energy Department to support two national surveys on energy consumption in commercial buildings across U.S. The company said Tuesday it will lead program management, project control and risk management of the 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey and 2018 Commercial Buildings Energy Supplier Survey. […] More

  • DOE Taps Guardtime, Siemens to Help Develop Blockchain Tech for Energy Grid Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Taps Guardtime, Siemens to Help Develop Blockchain Tech for Energy Grid Security

    Guardtime and Siemens are part of a team that received a multimillion dollar contract from the Energy Department to develop a blockchain-based technology platform that will work to help secure U.S. energy grid from emerging cyber threats. Both companies will also work with DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Labs, Washington State University, Tennessee Valley Authority and the Defense Department‘s Homeland Defense […] More

  • Eaton to Manufacture Hydropower Turbine, Generator Sets Under DOE Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton to Manufacture Hydropower Turbine, Generator Sets Under DOE Contract

    Eaton has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the Energy Department to produce and test integrated hydropower turbine and generator sets. The power management company said Wednesday the contract funds the second phase of a project DoE initially awarded in 2014 for the deployment of hydropower generation systems at existing non-powered dams and […] More

  • DOE Lab Seeks Commercialization Partner for True Random Number Generator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Lab Seeks Commercialization Partner for True Random Number Generator

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun to accept license applications for a device that uses quantum mechanical systems to generate true random numbers. ORNL said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks a commercialization partner for the true random number generator as part of the lab’s Technology Innovation Program. The quantum mechanics-based device works […] More

  • CTC CEO Ed Sheehan to Speak at Idaho Nuclear Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC CEO Ed Sheehan to Speak at Idaho Nuclear Summit

    Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., is among the featured speakers who will present during the two-day Nuclear Energy Leadership Summit and Showcase that will kick off Oct. 3 at the Shiloh Inn Convention Center in Idaho. Sheehan will talk about CTC’s Richland Township, Pennsylvania-based Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing the company opened […] More

  • GSA Unveils First Task Order for CDM Program Phase 3 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Unveils First Task Order for CDM Program Phase 3

    The General Services Administration has begun to solicit proposals for the first task order under the third phase of a governmentwide effort to protect civilian government agency websites from cyber attacks, FCW reported Friday. The initial task order under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program Phase 3 will cover “Group B” agencies such as the […] More

  • CTC to Host Nuclear Manufacturing Innovation Center Open House; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Host Nuclear Manufacturing Innovation Center Open House; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on Aug. 24 in Johnstown, P.A., as part of an open house utilizing existing facilities to advance the development of processes to produce advanced and small modular reactor systems. Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-Penn.) will attend the launch of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing, CTC said Thursday. CTC President […] More

  • D-Wave to Provide Oak Ridge National Lab Cloud Access to Quantum Computing Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D-Wave to Provide Oak Ridge National Lab Cloud Access to Quantum Computing Platform

    D-Wave Systems has agreed to provide the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory cloud access to its D-Wave 2000Q quantum computing system in an effort to advance development of hybrid computing applications. D-Wave will collaborate with Tennessee-based ORNL to leverage the quantum computer to help address DOE’s environmental, energy, nuclear and other scientific challenges through […] More

  • Veracity Supplies Initial SDN Tech for DOE Network Security Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veracity Supplies Initial SDN Tech for DOE Network Security Program

    Veracity Industrial Networks has completed the first phase of a software-defined networking infrastructure under an Energy Department project that aims to boost industrial network security. The company said Thursday DOE’s Chess Master initiative seeks to research, build, test and commercialize security validation and policy enforcement applications that can integrate with a flow controller to manage all field networks. Paul […] More

  • DOE Invests in 48 Solar Power Tech Projects Under SunShot Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Invests in 48 Solar Power Tech Projects Under SunShot Initiative

    The Energy Department has obligated $46.2 million for 48 projects to develop solar power technologies as part of a national effort that aims to make solar energy a viable energy source for U.S. citizens. DOE said Wednesday the projects fall under the SunShot Initiative‘s Technology to Market 3 and Photovoltaics Research and Development 2 programs. Charlie Gay, director of the […] More