Recent honors show government researchers can hold their own against innovation from privately funded labs.
The editors of R&D Magazine have announced the winners of the 50th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. Keep reading →
The Department of Energy‘s Sandia National Laboratories has developed a radically new way to remove heat from computer components using a design that is 30 times more efficient than current heat exchangers. Keep reading →
In a sign that the worlds of big data and government-owned high performance computing centers are beginning to converge, the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM announced that they are joining forces to help boost the competitiveness of U.S. industries in the global economy.
The announcement drew the attention and praise of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during a Capitol Hill briefing June 27, during which Feinstein stressed the growing importance of high performance computing and data analytics in the U.S. Keep reading →
In one of his first public appearances since being officially named CIO at the Department of Energy, Robert Brese called for greater efforts to develop a skilled cybersecurity workforce, and stressed the importance of responding to cyber threats, not merely being prepared to prevent and recover from them.
In a series of wide-ranging remarks on the state of cybersecurity in the federal government, Brese highlighted six factors shaping the evolution of federal cybersecurity policy, but concluded that despite many challenges, the federal government is “doing a better job than a majority of the private sector” in defending its networks. Keep reading →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — America is back on top in the race to claim ownership of the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
In a ranking released Monday of the world’s top 500 supercomputers, the United States scored the top spot with Sequoia, a supercomputer housed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The U.S. had been trailing China and Japan in the supercomputer race since June 2010, when a Chinese system took over the No. 1 spot. Keep reading →
We feature many contributors on Breaking Gov. It’s not everyday, however, that one of our contributors ops to take a leave in order to run for Congress.
James Windle, who has written passionately about the fine points of federal spending for Breaking Gov since its launch nearly a year ago, is doing just that. Keep reading →
Security, mobility and social networking are driving a new vision within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that’s led the department to embrace cloud computing.
This fall, the component within the Department of Energy that is responsible for the security and reliability of the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons will begin rolling out a major component of its new Network Vision – YourCloud. Keep reading →
This is the fifth in a series of profiles of innovative leaders in government based on interviews for the book Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government by Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson. The book highlights the management lessons of 24 political executives during their first two years in the Obama administration. Marc Andersen collaborated with them on this article.
Innovation is an important topic. All organizations want to do more of it, including the federal government. Like the proverbial elephant, everybody has a slightly different take on innovation and what it looks like. Keep reading →
This is the fourth in a series of profiles of innovative leaders in government based on interviews for the book “Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government” by Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson. The book highlights the management lessons of 24 political executives during their first two years in the Obama administration.
Undertaking innovation in government is a challenge. Government leaders must work with their existing tool kit, primarily grants and contracts, to bring about their desired results. It is rare that Congress gives government new authorities and a new portfolio of tools. (One exception is the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy in the Department of Energy). Keep reading →
Big Data and shared services, arguably two of the hottest trends in federal IT, posses the unquestionable power to revolutionize our ability to share information, make informed decisions and create knowledge – all while saving taxpayers boatloads of cash. However, despite the myriad memos, initiatives and projects focused on these transformational strategies, the federal IT community does not seem to be giving much attention to one of the most critical requirements needed to truly maximize these systems: bandwidth.
Here is the problem: Keep reading →