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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. […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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. […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is seeking input from institutions of higher education on howe to best prepare the next generation in the field of Quantum Information Science (QIS), according to a recent request for information (RFI). […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) has announced $48 million of funding in a new program aimed at improving “control and protection” of the American electrical power grid, and better protecting the power supply from “outside threats” and extreme weather events. […]

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The Energy Department’s (DoE) Office of Science is looking to industry for help with bolstering the agency’s efforts to create a technological innovation bridge to span what it calls the “valley of death.” That’s the gap that separates promising technology developed in labs from their practical applications in the real world. […]

Sheila Cooch has departed as director of IT policy under the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to become the new CIO at the Energy Department’s Office of Science. […]

The Biden-Harris Administration on Nov. 4 announced $1.5 billion in funding for the Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Laboratories to build up and modernize their infrastructure and address deferred maintenance projects. […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) announced $39 million in funding for projects to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required to power America’s clean energy future, according to a press release published Oct. 27. […]

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As Federal agencies and the private sector improve their uses of mobile technology, they must also improve security along with it, according to Ann Dunkin, chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Energy (DoE). […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) unveiled the latest generation of its Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) on Oct. 11 at the agency’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California before a crowd filled with members of Congress, scientists, and one of the “fathers” of internet – Vint Cerf. […]

The Energy Department’s (DoE) Pamela Isom stepped down from her role as director of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technology Office on Sept. 9, a DoE spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

James Wolff, chief information officer (CIO) at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), explained this week that modernization of the agency’s IT functions is at the top of the list of priorities, and how cloud services fit into that picture. […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) awarded $70 million in funding to seven research projects that will assist in the continued development of a supercomputer model of Earth’s climate system, according to an Aug. 30 press release. […]

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