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Power Technology | February 12, 2020

US President Donald Trump has boosted the budget for nuclear energy and security for fiscal year 2021 in his request to Congress on Monday. Out of a total of $35.4bn for the whole Department of Energy, President Trump allocated $19.8bn for national nuclear security and $1.2bn for nuclear energy research and development programmes, compared with last year’s decision to allocate $16.5bn and $824m respectively. In the document, Trump said: “Nuclear energy is also critical to the nation&...

Emerging Technology

Sayari | December 05, 2022

Sayari, a commercial risk intelligence company, has recently been selected by the United Kingdom Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as a supplier for the G-Cloud 13 Framework, an agreement between the government and suppliers who provide cloud-based services. The partnership enables departments like the National Crime Agency (NCA), Ministry of Defence (MOD), HM Revenue & Customs, Serious Fraud Office, HM Treasury and other agencies to accelerate deployment of Sayari’s commer...

Pentagon | April 06, 2020

The Defense Department urged a federal judge to grant its motion—filed in March— for a 120-day remand to reconsider the evaluation for its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract. In a legal filing April 3, Justice Department attorneys representing the Pentagon said Amazon Web Services seeks a “do-over” of the JEDI contract Microsoft ultimately won in October. In late March, AWS—which is protesting the JEDI cloud contract award—asked Judge Patricia Ca...

Government Business

Octo | June 23, 2022

Octo announces its new data mesh solution for federal clients seeking to accelerate the pace of innovation and realize greater mission value from their data analytics investments. Octo's solution fulfills increasing demands for trustworthy analytics data at scale by embracing an innovative, new approach to data management based on the principles of domain data ownership, managing data as a product, self-service infrastructure as a data platform, and federated, computational data governance.<...