Education Department
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The Department of Energy is awarding nearly $100 million for 54 smart grid workforce training programs that Secretary Steven Chu says will help prepare the next generation of workers in the utility and electrical manufacturing industries. The projects will leverage more than $95 million in funding from community colleges, universities, utilities and manufacturers to develop and implement training programs that will train approximately 30-thousand Americans in an effort to modernize the nation\'s electrical grid, and implement smart grid technologies in communities across the country. The programs will focus on training activities that support electricians, line workers, technicians, system operators, power system engineers, cyber security specialists and transmission planners. The funding builds on more than $4 billion in Recovery Act funding for smart grid deployment and demonstration projects nationally.
April 09, 2010 -
Alan P. Balutis Director and Distinguished Fellow Cisco Business Solutions Group
April 08, 2010 -
Cyber threats like the ConFicker worm have pushed government to respond swiftly, but experts say those fixes eventually wear off like Band-Aids® . So the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is working to…
September 28, 2009 -
Federal education officials — as well as leaders in education, research, and development — are out in New Mexico this week for a summit on the future of public education. The three-day summit, Unleashing Knowledge…
August 11, 2009 -
Paul Scheihing Technology Manager Department of Energy April 14th, 2009
April 14, 2009 -
Cost-type contracts nearly double over the last eight years.
April 13, 2009 -
There’s a fresh push to create a brand new agency to manage the nation’s nuclear labs. Right now, they belong to the Energy Department, but the Stimson Center wants that to change. They’ve released a…
March 19, 2009 -
The new leader at the Education Department has some plans to change the way that agency does business. Secretary Arne Duncan detailed his plan at a hearing of the House Budget Committee last week.
March 18, 2009 -
What does the future hold for clean coal technology? In 2003, the Department of Energy began a project called “Future Gen”. This involves building a coal-powered energy plant that would capture and store much of…
March 16, 2009 -
FederalNewsRadio has been telling you about plans to overhaul the “electric grid.” The Energy Department would play a key role in that. Branko Terzic, with Deloitte Services LP, is a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
March 06, 2009 -
Can you imagine a day where your agency runs on coal derived from water? The Energy Department is funding research that could make it happen. The technique uses what’s called a Hyperbaric Centrifuge. Scientists from…
February 16, 2009 -
President-elect Barack Obama offered more details into his transition team. After naming his senior staff Wednesday, Obama named several key players who will work on agency transitions. In a release obtained by FederalNewsRadio, the transition…
November 07, 2008