The Department of Energy\'s Idaho National Laboratory awarded a contract to Unisys Corporation to transition 5,000 users to Google\'s cloud-based email.
Frank Rusco, the director of Natural Resources and Environment Issues at GAO, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss a recent GAO report.
The Pentagon will soon announce winners of its latest round of grant funding to try out new energy technologies at its U.S. bases. The response from industry and other government agencies has been overwhelming, officials said.
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The Navy is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to find alternatives to fossil fuels. A parallel effort aims to engrain energy efficiency into the way the service buys the ships and planes it will own for the next few decades.
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Agency leaders, employee unions and associations are recommending ways to improve upon the age-old problem of supervision in the federal workforce. They\'re hoping to reassure employees that they\'re being treated fairly, while showing the public that the government is working efficiently. The President\'s Labor-Management Council is reviewing the plan.
Jay Hoffman is the Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Energy.
This might not be the best weekend for it weather-wise, but the Energy Department\'s solar decathlon is running on the Mall this weekend.
The House approved a short-term spending measure Thursday after lawmakers rejected a similar bill earlier this week.
The Agriculture Department, the Energy Department and the Navy are turning to industry to try to leverage advanced technologies to produce a new generation of biofuels. A request for information they just issued says the private sector would have to match any federal funds the agencies spend. The three departments are willing to spend up to 500 million dollars to jumpstart an industry to produce fuels that could serve as drop-in replacements for jet fuel and diesel. The Navy is aiming to get half its energy from alternative sources by the year 2020.
An Energy department lab is still offline 10 days after a major hack attack. Learn more in today\'s cybersecurity update
The government\'s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has suffered a cyber attack.
The Defense Department says it\'s committed to changing both the way it uses energy and the kinds of energy the military uses.
The Obama administration released its policy framework for modernizing the nation\'s electric grid Monday. As has been the case in national strategies on other topics the White House has released recently, the administration wants the federal government to emphasize its role as a facilitator and standards author rather than a regulator.