The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate announced that it has extended a Phase 1 Other Transaction award to Synthetik Insurance Analytics to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency understand and predict floods. Under the extended OT contract, Synthetik Insurance Analytics will continue developing technologies that can predict flooding, assess flood impacts on […]
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships has selected five teams to receive a $25 million investment to develop prototypes of their proposed technologies for securing 5G connectivity. Work will be performed over two years under the second phase of the NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure program, […]
Ohio-based nonprofit Battelle announced that it has a five-year, $416 million National Science Foundation contract to continue operating and maintaining the National Ecological Observatory Network. Paula Mabee, chief scientist and observatory director at NEON, noted that Battelle was selected to complete and manage the facility in 2016. NEON is aimed at collecting and providing open […]
Federal agencies are required to improve their business processes and service delivery through digitization under the Office of Management and Budget’s newly issued guidance. The Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience guidance, developed under the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, said agencies should ensure their websites, web applications, digital services and mobile applications are accessible […]
The U.S. Department of the Interior has awarded ICF a potential five-year, $30 million blanket purchase agreement to enhance the National Wildfire Coordination Group‘s training systems. Under the BPA, ICF will use its expertise, technologies and advanced analytics to develop a performance-based training system that improves the readiness of the United States’ wildland firefighting force. […]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced that it is undertaking a project called TEC4 with Microsoft and Micron to expand computational chemistry’s availability to applied researchers and industrial users. According to PNNL, the project is part of the Department of Energy’s initiative to hasten technology transfer from basic research to product innovation and capability building to […]
The need for student civil rights protection remains even with the release of the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, according to 19 education technology policy and advocacy groups. In a letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Education, the groups highlighted the need […]
The Department of Homeland Security has formed the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, a council of private sector leaders tasked with advising the Intelligence & Analysis and Counterterrorism Coordinator offices on intelligence and national security matters. According to a press release, the Experts Group will meet four times annually and work on I&A challenges such as […]
Spire Global Subsidiary has received the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s one-year, three-phase contract for Commercial Weather Data Pilot studies. The contract was awarded under the NOAA Commercial Data Program. Under the CWDP contract, Spire Global Subsidiary will help NOAA assess the quality and impact of available commercial global navigation satellite system reflectometry observations for […]
The National Science Foundation has selected 37 teams to receive $72.5 million in investments over four years to conduct studies aiming to design, discover and develop new materials necessary to address major societal challenges. The teams consist of 161 researchers from 61 universities, including Florida International University, Tuskegee University and New Mexico Highlands University. Among […]
