Energy Department

Preschoolers eat lunch at a day care center, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Mountlake Terrace, Wash. Child care centers once operated under the promise that it would always be there when parents have to work. Now, each teacher resignation, coronavirus exposure, and day care center closure reveals an industry on the brink, with wide-reaching implications for an entire economy's workforce. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

IG warns DOE about the lack of background checks at its agency-run child care centers

In today’s Federal Newscast: The First workday of 2022, brought Feds in DC their first snow day of 2022. A local union president said just closing some…

Federal Newscast

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Sloppy expense-accounts leave former government scientist owing thousands of dollars

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this May 11, 2015, file photo, nuclear waste is stored in underground containers at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho. The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste's radioactivity rather than how it was produced. The U.S. Department of Energy announcement last week means some radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production stored for decades in Idaho, Washington and South Carolina could be reclassified and moved for permanent storage elsewhere. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler, File)

Biden administration affirms Trump era interpretation for high-level nuclear waste

Facilities/Construction

A user holds a Samsung Tab S3 Android tablet, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, during a press briefing in New York. The new tablet will come with many of Samsung's fire-prone Note 7's features, including an S Pen stylus and a richly colored screen. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Recent travel guidance for using government devices gives best practices in unsecure countries

Cybersecurity

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks at NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex to promote his

Energy Dept. backs 17 green federal building upgrades as ‘preview’ of future spending

Facilities/Construction

This federal scientist developed something you can’t see but will help the electrical grid

Technology

A cut lead pipe is pulled from a dig site for testing at a home in Royal Oak, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Communities with lead pipes could see higher test results for lead in their tap water if a new method of water sampling goes into effect. The Detroit suburb of Royal Oak historically had low test results but it had to notify the public of a problem after the state mandated new sampling methods. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

IG: Water quality and mold may be issues when employees return to federal buildings

Federal Newscast

The Energy Department directs a prize challenge program to historically underserved groups

Technology

NIST seeks input on guidance to pin down trustworthy AI

Artificial Intelligence

DoD looking into what happens if the most important briefcase in the world goes missing

Federal Newscast

Energy’s Nevada National Security Site’s Network 2025 vision laying the foundation for the future

Federal Insights

Cooperation between the corporate and federal sectors still has a long way to go

The ongoing ransomware attacks have everybody spooked. Congress and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are both contemplating ways to…

Cybersecurity

FILE - This June 5, 2015, file photo, shows a view of the Homeland Security Department headquarters in Washington. Less than a year after being on the verge of furloughing about 70% of employees to plug a funding shortfall, the federal agency that grants citizenship, green cards and temporary visas wants to improve service without a detailed plan to pay for it, including waivers for those who can't afford to pay fees, according to a proposal obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Energy and Homeland Security team up to help agencies cut their energy bills

The Energy and Homeland Security departments have agreed to work together to cut energy consumption and carbon production by DHS facilities.

Management

The Energy Department pursues cleaner and more efficient biofuel

Technology

Biofuel will be part of the country’s energy future – that’s why the Energy Department’s ARPA-E is spending some $35 million in grant dollars to improve the efficiency of making this class of fuel.