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The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division is located at the FBI center in Clarksburg, where employees of the NCIS call center work to sort through gun background checks every day. Leidos has handled the FBI CJIS NextGeneration Identification program since 2008.
Not all batteries are created equal. State-of-the-art battery technology for cell phones, for instance, looks a lot different from batteries for electric cars.
The federal government is warning the owners of a troubled nuclear power plant in Georgia that any move to cancel a planned expansion would lead to demands for quick repayment of nearly $6 billion in federal loans. In a letter to the plant's three owners, the Department of Energy said late Friday that if the construction project is cancelled, the government is "prepared to move swiftly to fully enforce its rights under terms of the loan guarantee agreements, including the repayment provisions."
Just months ago, disaster planners simulated a Category 4 hurricane strike alarmingly similar to the real-word scenario now unfolding on a dangerously vulnerable stretch of the East Coast. A fictional "Hurricane Cora" barreled into southeast Virginia and up the Chesapeake Bay to strike Washington, D.C., in the narrative created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Argonne National Laboratory.
With irrefutable proof in hand that hackers have penetrated the U.S. electricity supply system, and the tragic situation in Puerto Rico reminding us that life without electricity is harsh - not only no lights, but no banks, ATMs, internet or communications, limited food and water supplies, hospitals unable to provide services - it is welcome news that the Department of Energy has established a new office dedicated to cyber and energy security, and emergency response.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , in collaboration with public and private partners, has released the most comprehensive publicly available database yet of U.S. wind turbine locations and characteristics. The United States Wind Turbine Database will allow unparalleled ability for government agencies and others to make planning decisions.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory used the technology they developed to decommission the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor to develop the Miniature Integrated Nuclear Detection System. The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, a former Office of Science user facility, ran for more than a decade before the lab decommissioned it in 1999.
When John Nickels was in the United States Navy and stationed aboard a submarine, he read a book about then-President George W. Bush and his use of geothermal technology at his Texas ranch. "I read that story about President Bush's ranch heating with geothermal and thought that was really cool," Nickels said.
Once faced with devastating cuts , a research facility in Colorado now looks as if it will emerge unscathed in the federal government's next budget. Included in Congress' $1.3 trillion spending plan for the rest of the fiscal year is $2.3 billion for a program within the U.S. Department of Energy that provides the bulk of the funding for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.
Gov. Martinez announces WIPP road improvement projects Four projects are expected to be completed in 2018, with construction starting this spring. Check out this story on CurrentArgus.com: A CAST Specialty Transportation truck delivers the first shipment to WIPP since its 2014 closure in April.
The U.S. go... . FILE - This April 15, 2017, file video image courtesy of KTVB-TV shows the remote area where skeletal remains were found in a badger hole north of Mountain Home, Idaho.
This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a wounded man after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Monday, Fe... . This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows civilians standing near a body after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018.
FBI officials say the investigation into the November death of a US Border Patrol agent has yielded no evidence that there was a 'scuffle, altercation or attack'. Local billionaire buys The Los Angeles Times for $500 million, putting the storied paper back under local ownership for the first time in almost two decades.
Dutch lender Rabobank's California subsidiary is scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday in a long-running investigation that led to allegations the bank was used to launder millions of dollars in Mexican drug money. Dutch lender Rabobank's California subsidiary is scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday in a long-running investigation that led to allegations the bank was used to launder millions of dollars in Mexican drug money.
Phillip Durachinsky has been charged with allegedly creating and installing computer malware called Fruitfly that let him spy on and record victims. He allegedly accessed thousands of computers, including those owned by individuals, companies, schools, a police department and a subsidiary of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Congressman Jim McGovern and the Massachusetts Congressional delegation called for the immediate release of as much as possible of the remaining 10% of Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds for this fiscal year. "Families in our state are in desperate need of the remaining LIHEAP funds to combat the deadly combination of sustained cold weather and high fuel prices.
About 20 years were spent preparing the highly contaminated Plutonium Finishing Plant for demolition. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both D-Wash., say they support the current halt to the demolition following the spread of radioactive contamination at Hanford.
Nuclear plants are money losers, but Perry is loaning up to $3.7 billion more to the last new one being built. On Friday, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry authorized up to $3.7 billion in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees to finish building the last remaining new nuclear plant under construction in this country.
The Department of Energy's grid study contains several important red flags to consider when determining what role solar and wind power will play in the future, a digital tech analyst told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The DOE's study notes that green energy technology is not currently a problem for the electrical grid, but the agency's report warns that solar and wind power could become a problem in the future if demand explodes, according to Mark Mills, an executive at tech-consulting organization Digital Power Group.
In his first visit to the Tri-Cities, Energy Secretary Rick Perry offered enthusiastic support for the Hanford cleanup and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, but gave no assurance he will advocate to maintain current funding. Perry's first Northwest visit began with a tour of McNary Dam on Monday and continued Tuesday with stops at the national laboratory, the Volpentest HAMMER federal training center and the Hanford nuclear site.