The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently selected two companies, X-energy and Southern Company, as recipients of awards with a multi-year cost share of up to $80 million to create advanced nuclear reactor designs. Read More »

Several companies were awarded Army, Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency contracts for test and evaluation support services, architectural and engineering support, vehicle parts, combat boots and tactical missiles. Read More »

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) said this week that reliability ratings at nuclear plants in the U.S. reached record-high levels in 2015. Read More »

The Department of Defense (DOD) held a ceremony this week in Salt Lake City to officially announce that Virginia-class attack submarine SSN 801 will be named the USS Utah, the second U.S. naval ship to bear that name. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said this week that it will fund six projects involving solar-power storage technology. Read More »

Wisconsin's lower legislative house recently passed legislation to repeal the state's 33-year-old ban on constructing new nuclear power plants in an effort to boost low-carbon electricity production. Read More »

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) recently pledged $11 million in funding late last week for seven projects to develop data repositories and open-access models to upgrade the U.S. electric grid. Read More »

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) recently announced a shakeup in its Health Subcommittee, with the departure of Clay Alspach as chief counsel. Read More »

The Department of Defense (DoD) issued a report late last week detailing new biological-management procedures that are being implemented in the wake of accidental shipments of live anthrax to dozens of labs in the U.S and abroad. Read More »

U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a statement late last week on Iran's temporary seizure of two U.S. vessels and detainment of 10 U.S. sailors. Read More »

After the Obama administration said recently that it will cease all coal leases on federal lands, Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, condemned the move. Read More »

Just weeks after President Obama signed a bill that lifted a 40-year-old ban on U.S. crude oil exports, two tankers filled with U.S. crude oil pulled out of Texas ports, en route to U.S. allies in Europe. Read More »

Several Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency contracts recently were awarded to companies to provide operations workload, infrastructure, systems engineering, and supporting technology and equipment services. Read More »

Several companies recently were awarded defense contracts to provide a variety of resources to the Army, Navy and Special Operations units, including enterprise planning services, environmental support, practice bombs, flooring, sensor systems, processor systems and computer-intelligence applications. Read More »

Army and Air Force leaders are teaming up to engineer training methods that can turn out more-adaptable leaders who can develop creative solutions to complex challenges. Read More »

South Texas-based Marathon Oil awarded Phase II implementation of its Eagle Ford Digital Oil Field (DOF) Program this week to Technical Toolboxes Inc. (TTI) subsidiary Energy Industry Consultants and Engineers (EICE) International. Read More »

President Obama presented his final State of the Union address this week to Congress, during which he detailed his administration’s successes, and the surge in solar-energy employment has been a standout. Read More »

The U.S. Marine Corps said this week that it is moving ahead with gender-integration initiatives after last year’s Pentagon decision to break the gender barrier for all military jobs -- including combat roles. Read More »

U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, responded in a statement on Wednesday to reports that the Obama administration plans to delay the premature retirement of the A-10 air fleet in its fiscal year 2017 budget request. Read More »

A firm-fixed-price contract -- a maximum of $7,046,395, for one year with no option period -- for electricity and ancillary services has been awarded to Constellation NewEnergy of Baltimore by the Navy's Defense Logistics Agency. Read More »