A senior Democratic lawmaker expressed concerns today about the United States’ ability to meet growing energy demands that are accompanying the surge of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, particularly when it comes to beating China in the tech race. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) on Tuesday unveiled a roadmap for its new Frontiers in AI for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) initiative announced earlier this year. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) still has significant work to do to address open priority recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) related to insider threats and cybersecurity. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has released an updated version of its Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Reference Guide to incorporate guidance from President Biden’s October 2023 AI executive order. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is one of the largest Federal research funding agencies, but a new report out today from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that DoE needs to better understand whether or not a recent policy change is actually protecting U.S.-funded technologies from foreign acquisition. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE), along with several suppliers and manufacturers serving the energy sector, released a new set of Supply Chain Cybersecurity Principles today to drive best practices across the industry. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has released a new Fusion Energy Strategy, keeping its 2022 promise to develop a strategy for accelerating the viability of commercial fusion energy in partnership with the private sector. […]
The chair of a key Senate committee expressed support this week for the Biden administration’s proposal to increase Federal funding to advance artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and other emerging technologies, along with boosting support for the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Science. […]
As the proliferation of AI technologies across the private and government sectors continues to pick up steam, the top technology official at the Department of Energy (DoE) pointed this week to several areas that are presenting challenges to integrating AI within zero trust architectures moving forward. […]
The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) has announced $15 million in funding to establish six university-based electric power cybersecurity centers that will foster collaboration across the energy sector to address gaps in energy security research and provide cybersecurity education programs. […]
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees released their first package of fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bills on Sunday, boosting to over $8 billion the budget for the Energy Department’s (DoE) Office of Science which is responsible for overseeing programs funded by the CHIPS and Science Act, among others. […]
The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) announced this week the allocation of $45 million for 16 projects aimed at developing new technologies to prevent cyberattacks and reduce energy disruptions from cyber incidents. […]
In response to President Biden’s AI executive order (EO), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE) have officially established a Research Coordination Network (RCN) dedicated to advancing privacy research. […]
In response to the Biden administration’s recent AI executive order, the Department of Energy (DoE) unveiled its new Office of Critical and Emerging Technology Tuesday, aiming to ensure U.S. investments and progress in areas such as AI, biotechnology, quantum computing, and semiconductors. […]
Boston Government Services, a top contractor to the Department of Energy (DoE) for technology and security services, has named former DoE Chief Information Officer Rocky Campione vice president of cybersecurity and technology solutions. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is preparing an updated version of its Generative Artificial Intelligence Reference Guide to better reflect guidance from the White House’s recent AI executive order (EO), with an emphasis on responsible AI. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has begun the process of recompeting its $10 billion enterprise wide IT support services contract, according to a request for information (RFI) published on Friday. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has announced $16 million in funding for 15 different projects that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to further research in nuclear physics. […]
The Energy Department’s (DoE) Office of Science has announced a $112 million investment to study fusion energy sciences with the use of high-performance computing capabilities across 12 different projects. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) needs to do more to improve electric grid resilience by ensuring there are adequate reserves of spare power transformers, which are susceptible to cyberattacks and other physical threats, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
Stephan Streiffer, the current interim director at the Stanford University-based SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will serve as the next director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee starting in October, according to an announcement released on Thursday. […]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) on June 30 announced its public access plan to make the agency’s Federally funded research more widely available to the public. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is in the “drafting process” of creating a new cybersecurity strategy that will address cloud technologies to be used by the agency going forward, according to Ann Dunkin, chief information officer at DoE, who talked about process for the strategy during a June 20 event organized by Federal News Network. […]
A cyberattack has impacted several Federal agencies, who have experienced intrusions affecting their MOVEit applications, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA). […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report finding that the Department of Energy (DoE) has failed to fully implement a program to protect against insider threats to the agency’s nuclear weapons and related secret information. […]
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Energy (DoE) hasn’t fully implemented its Insider Threat Program, more than eight years after it established the program in 2014. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has four of the top ten fastest supercomputers in the world, and the agency’s investment in supercomputing is crucial to fighting climate change and bolstering the electric grid, according to DoE Chief Information Officer (CIO) Ann Dunkin. […]
Creativity is the name of the game in making the government procurement process more sustainable to address climate change concerns, said Ann Dunkin, chief information officer (CIO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), today at ACT-IAC’s Climate Change Summit 2023 event. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has not been keeping up with adequately monitoring and authorizing its cloud services, according to a new report released by the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). […]
Good communication plays an outsized role in how highly federated government agencies – those with numerous component parts – will be able to implement different approaches to zero trust security rather than pursue one-size-fits-all policies, Federal government officials said today at ATARC’s Zero Trust Summit event in Washington. […]