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  • Siemens & DOE-Led Crowdsourcing Community Launch Building Tech Idea Search - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens & DOE-Led Crowdsourcing Community Launch Building Tech Idea Search

    Siemens and the Energy Department-led Jump online crowdsourcing community have partnered to crowdsource building technology ideas that could support interaction between personal smart devices and public facilities. The company said Monday the Jump challenge seeks concepts, use cases and business models that could help building occupants in commercial, public or corporate spaces to achieve the level of device interconnectivity […] More

  • Battelle Vet Robert Quinn Named SCRA Executive Director; Bill Blume Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Vet Robert Quinn Named SCRA Executive Director; Bill Blume Comments

    Robert Quinn, managing director of technology commercialization and advisory services at Battelle subsidiary 360ip, will join South Carolina-based applied research company SCRA on Aug. 1 as executive director. He will bring his knowledge of the technology development, commercialization and transfer processes to his new position, SCRA said Friday. Quinn said he aims to help the state-chartered company drive innovation partnerships  between universities and private companies through […] More

  • DOE to Fund 14 Window Coating Devt Projects Through SHIELD Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE to Fund 14 Window Coating Devt Projects Through SHIELD Program

    The Energy Department has awarded $31 million in total funds to support 14 window coating and windowpane development projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Single-Pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Design program. DOE said Monday ARPA-E’s SHIELD program seeks to retrofit single-pane windows through the development of novel window coatings and other materials designed to […] More

  • ORNL Uses Allinea Code Performance Analysis Tool to Support Supercomputers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ORNL Uses Allinea Code Performance Analysis Tool to Support Supercomputers

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Allinea Software‘s Allinea MAP code performance profiler to help drive operational efficiency for the Titan supercomputer and facilitate application readiness for the upcoming Summit pre-exascale computing system. The company said Jan. 19 the profiler tool works to build on the previously deployed Allinea DDT debugger to boost computing capability in support […] More

  • IBM's David Turek: Supercomputer Development Requires Data Processing Function Upgrades - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s David Turek: Supercomputer Development Requires Data Processing Function Upgrades

    IBM uses a data-centric computing architecture to help the U.S. Energy Department build high-performance supercomputers under a $325 million contract between the company and the agency, InformationWeek reported Aug. 7. David Turek, vice president of technical computing at IBM, told the publication in an interview that high-performance computing capacity is measured through exascale nodes and […] More

  • Oak Ridge Lab Taps Citrix Tool for Mobile Device Mgmt; Tina Snyder Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oak Ridge Lab Taps Citrix Tool for Mobile Device Mgmt; Tina Snyder Comments

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has moved to adopt a Citrix-built platform in an effort to centralize mobile device management operations, GCN reported Thursday. Stephanie Kanowitz writes ORNL mobile managers previously used two different MDM services to manage the national lab’s bring-your-own-device initiative and laboratory-owned devices but decided to implement the Citrix-developed tool […] More

  • DOE, IBM, Nvidia Unveil Future DOE Centers for Large-Scale Data Computers; Michael McCoy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE, IBM, Nvidia Unveil Future DOE Centers for Large-Scale Data Computers; Michael McCoy Comments

    A pair of Energy Department national laboratories, IBM and Nvidia will build two facilities at the campuses of both labs to facilitate development of applications for large-scale data computing platforms. IBM said Monday the Sierra and Summit supercomputers are scheduled for delivery to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2017 under a contract awarded by DOE in April 2014. […] More

  • General Atomics Begins Central Solenoid Fabrication for Int'l Fusion Energy Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Begins Central Solenoid Fabrication for Int’l Fusion Energy Project

    General Atomics has begun the fabrication of the central solenoid for an experimental tokamak fusion reactor as part of U.S. participation in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project on the potential of fusion energy. The company said Friday the ITER central solenoid is a superconducting electromagnet weighing at 1,000 tons with a stored energy capacity of 5.5 gigajoules. “The […] More

  • Mo Mulligan: Triple Canopy JV Receives DOE Recognition for Oak Ridge Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mo Mulligan: Triple Canopy JV Receives DOE Recognition for Oak Ridge Services

    A joint venture of Triple Canopy and Securiguard has received a performance score of 96 from the Energy Department on the venture’s contract to provide protective force services at DOE facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Triple Canopy said Jan. 21 that DOE commended National Strategic Protective Services for meeting or exceeding expectations on contract performance and its “continued ability to adapt […] More

  • BIll Doll: Battelle Tool Built to Help Navy Dig for Bomb Debris - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BIll Doll: Battelle Tool Built to Help Navy Dig for Bomb Debris

    Battelle has developed a metal detecting tool for U.S. Navy helicopter crews to help cleanup personnel at the Pinecastle Bombing Range in Florida find bomb debris, the Orlando Sentinel reported Sunday. Erica Rodriguez writes that the tool will be used to plot the locations of bomb and target debris on a heat map following pilot training exercises, […] More

  • LBT Secures Exclusive Rights to UT-Battelle's Power Restoration Forecasting Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LBT Secures Exclusive Rights to UT-Battelle’s Power Restoration Forecasting Tech

    GPS tool maker Location Based Technologies will market and integrate its GPS technology with UT-Battelle‘s VERDE Analytics power restoration forecasting system under an exclusive licensing deal between both parties. LBT said Tuesday the combination of data related to navigation, the environment and weather situations is intended to help mobile service providers track assets, work crews and power operations […] More