The Energy Department has offered grants to help several technology organizations develop software products, sensors and predictive algorithms for managing the performance of lithium-ion batteries, Gigacom reported Wednesday. Katie Fehrenbacher writes Battelle designed an optical sensor that aims to detect internal battery faults, while General Electric built a miniaturized system to monitor battery pressure and […] More

Battelle has moved forward with its plan to deliver 10 Gigabits of data connection by petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to consider new wireless technology rules. The fresh data stream technology is intended to combine the speed of fiber optic cable with traditional wireless system in order to support spectrum beyond 100 Gigahertz for public […] More

Battelle has awarded a 15-month $22.2 million contract to Camber Corp. for help to test and install linear sensor systems for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Camber will work with Battelle to procure the four GLASSWAVE systems for the Corps’ Engineering Research Development Center – Topographic Engineering Center, Camber said Tuesday. John […] More

Battelle has been awarded a five-year, $12.6 million contract to help run a national repository of human biological samples for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nonprofit research firm will help CDC maintain blood, tissue, urine and genomic specimens that are stored inside large metal vats at the agency’s CASPIR biostorage facility in […] More

NexDefense will market Battelle’s network fingerprinting and monitoring software under a patent and copyright licensing agreement. The Sophia industrial control systems tool is built at Idaho National Laboratory with more than $1.5 million in investments from the Energy Department’s office of electricity delivery and energy reliability, NexDefense said Tuesday. “Because of the great need to […] More

Researchers at Battelle are exploring the impact of cold temperatures on various equipment and materials, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday. Dean Narciso writes Darren Wolfe, a Battelle research scientist, tested a panel from Blackhawk helicopter’s dashboard in very low temperatures. The dashboard’s incandescent lighting stopped working due to vibrations and Battelle researchers switched the material […] More

Executive Mosaic, the premier media and events organization in the government contracting sector, is honored to announce the 2024 edition of the highly anticipated Wash100 Award. Now in its historic 11th year, the Wash100 Award recognizes the top 100 industry executives and government leaders in the GovCon community for their outstanding leadership, positive impact and […] More

Bechtel has completed the safe destruction of mustard agent-filled munitions at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado. The Bechtel Pueblo Team destroyed over 780,000 projectiles and mortar rounds under three campaigns involving three various sizes of chemical weapons and reported the milestone to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the company […] More

Allegheny Science & Technology will help the Department of Energy track the progress of agency projects under a five-year, $49 million contract. The award calls for data collection support to research, development, demonstration and deployment efforts at DOE’s nuclear energy and Idaho operations offices, among other facilities, AST said Tuesday. AST will perform the task […] More

Last week, the highly prestigious popular vote contest for the 2023 Wash100 Award came to a close and now Executive Mosaic has announced the triumphant winner: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. This year’s competition was the fiercest yet, drawing tens of thousands of submissions and widespread attention from across the federal sector. Since the end of January, motivated […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to honor Andrew Hunter, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, with his first-ever Wash100 Award for his remarkable leadership in driving research, development and acquisition activities within the service branch. The coveted Wash100 Award reached its incredible 10th anniversary this year as it once again hand-picked the top 100 […] More

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has granted U2opia Technology exclusive licensing rights to a pair of tools designed to support cybersecurity threat visualization and analysis. U2opia intends to integrate the Situ and Heartbeat platforms developed within the ORNL Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division into the company’s anomaly detection product, the laboratory said Friday. An ORNL research […] More