The Department of Commerce has awarded SK Hynix $458 million in direct funding for the company’s project to build an advanced memory packaging plant in West Lafayette, Indiana. The funding will support
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for qualified contractors to provide expertise and operational support for an agency project to develop advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. The VA needs help from companies
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed Ronald Rowe Jr. as acting director of the Secret Service, replacing Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned Tuesday. In a statement, Mayorkas, a former Wash100 Award
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The Technology Modernization Fund has allocated funding of $13.8 million to the Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce to further strengthen U.S. national security and promote tech innovation. TMF said
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The Department of Commerce and GlobalWafers have signed a preliminary memorandum of terms, or PMT, to provide $400 million in proposed funding to advance semiconductor production in the United States. The proposed
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The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy is seeking to accelerate the development of advanced nuclear reactors by providing access to a new supercomputer called Bitterroot at Idaho National Laboratory. After
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The U.S. Army has promoted Col. Kevin Cheney, the deputy commander of Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical, to brigadier general during a ceremony at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The promotion
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The National Science Foundation has started building the Leadership-Class Computing Facility at the University of Texas in Austin. Set to operate under UT Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center, LCCF will serve as
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have released a cyber advisory calling on software companies to address operating system command injection vulnerabilities before shipping their products. The alert was
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The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has selected six startups to develop technologies capable of ensuring user privacy through digital credentials. The awardees—namely, Credence ID, Hushmesh, Netis, Procivis, SpruceID
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Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed new standards to safeguard the United States’ public alert and warning systems against evolving cybersecurity threats. In a draft document submitted to the commission,
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