Granholm Chosen to Head DoE, Oversee Sprawling Science, Tech Portfolio Dec 18, 2020 | 9:10 am President-elect Joe Biden confirmed late on Dec. 17 he intends to nominate former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as the new Secretary of Energy. If confirmed, she will head an agency primarily concerned with nuclear energy and domestic energy production, but also a dazzling range of science and technology research and development activities through the Energy Department’s (DoE) National Laboratories. […]
DoE, Intel to Deliver First Exascale Supercomputer in 2021 Mar 18, 2019 | 4:22 pm The Department of Energy (DoE) and Intel announced today that they will team up to deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP–“to a ‘quintillion’ floating point computations per second”–in the United States. […]
DoE CIO ‘Optimistic’ About Agency’s IT Progress Feb 1, 2019 | 10:24 am Max Everett, CIO at the Department of Energy (DoE), said Thursday he was “optimistic” about the agency’s progress on a host of IT issues, including network architecture, cloud adoption, data governance standards, and cybersecurity. […]