A new Grand Challenge was released by DARPA called Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) to over 8,000 engineering and communications specialists at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) this week in Las Vegas. Read More »

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) recently unveiled a plan to utilize wind energy off the coast of New York, in an area 11 miles south of Long Island totaling roughly 81,130 acres. Read More »

Several mines and mining employees in Colorado received awards for safety from the Colorado Mining Association (CMA) and the State of Colorado at the 118th National Western Mining Conference and Exhibition this week in Denver. Read More »

The House Science Committee recently grilled Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials over the agency's regulatory crackdown on "regional haze" nationwide, and that's fine by one coal-industry group. Read More »

A Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation (T4NG) contract, from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has been awarded to Systems Made Simple, a Lockheed Martin company. Read More »

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford said in a Pentagon press briefing late last week that the U.S. may need to send more military-support troops to Iraq in the ongoing effort to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Read More »

Lockheed Martin recently opened a new facility in New Jersey to test hardware, software and firmware that will be used in the Space Fence radar array under construction on the Marshall Islands' Kwajalein Island, between Hawaii and the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean, for the U.S. Air Force. Read More »

Activist group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is taking aim at the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which is designed to cut carbon emissions from power plants by mandating that states reduce emissions by switching to cleaner energy sources, such as solar and wind power. Read More »

A bill recently signed into law in Oregon mandates that the state shut down all coal-powered plants by 2035 and switch to clean-energy generation. Read More »

The U.S. Department of the Interior has filed a Notice of Intent to Conduct a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to determine whether the federal government's movement away from coal actually will benefit the environment and lead to economical alternatives that can satisfy the nation's rising energy needs. Read More »

The U.S. Army recently launched the Associated Units pilot, in which multiple units of the Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve to train together before they are deployed. Read More »

U.S.-Estonia relations were just one of several topics discussed in a recent meeting at the Pentagon between U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Estonian Minister of Defense Hannes Hanso, the Pentagon said this week. Read More »

The Navy, Army and Defense Logistics Agency recently awarded new service contracts, the Defense Department said recently. Read More »

Nearly 40 American Gas Association (AGA) companies are participating in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program, through which the companies commit to tracking and reducing their factories' greenhouse gas emissions. Read More »

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech this week that the nation's long-term defense strategy must take a broad and flexible approach to keep up with current and emerging threats worldwide. Read More »

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford said China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and Islamic extremism pose some of the biggest U.S. defense challenges moving forward, and he doesn't think U.S. forces currently have the breadth to handle such a wide spectrum of threats. Read More »

U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) recently told Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy that the administration's efforts to downsize the coal industry in the interest of clean-energy goals is choking his state's economy and invited her to visit the state and witness the effects of this policy. Read More »

The U.S. and Russia resumed ongoing talks on Thursday concerning flight safety within Syria's airspace. Read More »

The boards of directors at Southern Company and PowerSecure International recently agreed to a merger deal in which PowerSecure will becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released $9 million in funds to 24 American Indian communities to help them implement clean-energy and energy-efficiency projects. Read More »