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Critical infrastructure

Aging critical infrastructure is impacting how Federal officials are preparing to respond to cyberattacks and damage to that infrastructure from environmental disasters, with collaborate approaches and response plans key to that preparedness effort.   […]

A bipartisan bill that would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to incorporate AI systems into the national vulnerability database won approval from the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on Wednesday. […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) will soon operationalize its public-private pilot program which aims to secure critical energy infrastructure against threats as it also looks forward to improving security through work within industry sectors, a top DoE security official said on Sept. 17.  […]

electric grid

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.  […]

quantum computing

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., introduced legislation last week that aims to advance quantum research at the Department of Energy (DoE) by authorizing $2.5 billion in funding over the next five years. […]

Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.V. – chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced a bipartisan bill this week that aims to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies at the Department of Energy (DoE). […]

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. […]

generative AI, ChatGPT

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. […]

TMF

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced three new funding awards today totaling $31 million to three Federal agencies, and the agency said that TMF is on track to soon exhaust the $1 billion of funding provided to it by Congress under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act. […]

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.  […]

Budget Federal spending

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. […]

A top Department of Energy (DoE) official presented a sobering portrait of the nation’s cyber readiness this week, saying that a lack of funding is preventing Federal agencies from fully adhering to the Biden administration’s cybersecurity executive order (EO). […]

Workday, Inc., which provides cloud-based human capital and financial management platforms to the private sector – and increasingly to government customers – has added the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to its Federal government customer rolls. […]

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 National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Department of Energy (DoE), today awarded 35 projects first-round access to the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot, which is a shared national infrastructure to support the AI research community. […]

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. […]

Budget Federal spending

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. […]

data privacy, people, personal data, binary

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. […]

The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) today announced a $30 million funding opportunity to support the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of next generation tools to protect clean energy delivery infrastructure from cyberattacks. […]

The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) has announced up to $70 million in funding to support research into technologies designed to increase resilience and reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber threats.  […]

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. […]

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