Ann Dunkin, chief information officer at the Department of Energy, will discuss initiatives to modernize and transform DOE information technology operations in a keynote address to a Sept. 1 virtual forum hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire). Dunkin joined DOE in May 2021 after her prior role as chief...
NASA and the Department of Energy have selected BWX Technologies, General Atomics and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies to further develop their reactor design concepts for a nuclear thermal propulsion system that could be used in future deep space exploration missions. Each company will receive a potential 12-year, $5 million contract from DOE’s Id...
Navarro Research and Engineering has received a potential $100 million contract from the Department of Energy to provide technical assistance services for DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico. DOE announced the contract award in a notice posted Thursday on the SAM website. CBFO manages and supports the National Transuranic Waste Program and t...
SRS Critical Infrastructure Security, a joint venture of four companies, can provide protective services at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina after DOE reaffirmed its award of a 10-year, $1 billion contract to the industry team. The department said Thursday it took corrective action following the suspension of wo...
The Biden administration has created a new task force to work on a roadmap meant to expand access to research tools to advance innovation in the field of artificial intelligence. The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force, which was created in accordance with the National AI Initiative Act of 2020, will act as a...
The Department of Energy has started its bid solicitation process for a potential 10-year, $3 billion contract for management and operation services at a radioactive waste disposal facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico. DOE said Thursday it will conduct a full and open competition for the cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Was...
John Vollmer, CEO of Amentum and six-time Wash100 Award recipient, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award during a recent visit to Amentum by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. “Since emerging as a driving force following AECOM’s acquisition of URS and installing John Vollmer and the current senior team,...
Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) has rolled out a central processing unit designed to help customers manage high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads at data centers. Grace CPU uses processor technology from U.K.-based semiconductor vendor Arm and supports natural language processing model training, Nvidia said Monday. Jensen Huang, foun...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in early 2023 under an expanded collaboration with LANL. The new supercomputer will provide the national lab with analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities to help researchers facilitate simulation and mode...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award, this year’s highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership and innovation in COVID-19 research and development programs as well as his drive to assist in the pandemic’s relief efforts for...
