Contract Awards

The Department of Energy is investing $20 million in research and development projects to apply artificial intelligence to energy science and grid management. DOE said Wednesday. Eight projects have been identified that would receive a combined amount of almost $7 million to study on AI, big data and machine learning applications in grid resiliency. These projects are funded under DOE's Office of Electricity.

The Department of Defense awarded a five-year, $75 million cooperative agreement to Research Triangle Institute to create strategies in line with the agency's science, technology, engineering and mathematics efforts. DoD said Tuesday that it plans to confirm and support initiatives for the performance of K-12 and undergraduate STEM outreach and education programs under the Defense STEM Education Consortium cooperative agreement.

The Department of Energy intends to award $95 million in 86 grants across 74 firms under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The grants cover phase II of the programs and would finance projects that passed technical feasibility qualifications during the first phase, DOE said Monday. Each awardee would receive a grant valued around $1 million covering a two-year research and development period for prototyping.

The U.S. Mint, a bureau of the Treasury Department, selected the Unisys Corporation as one of five companies to compete for task orders under a five-year, $70 million contract that calls for IT services supporting the agency’s mission, Unisys announced on Friday.

The U.S. Army Contracting Command selected the Unisys Corporation as one of 50 large companies to compete for task orders under a potential nine-year, $12.1 billion contract to provide IT services to all Army organizations, Unisys announced Thursday.

Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence secured a three-year, $5.2M contract from NASA to create additive production methods and processes to boost liquid rocket engine performance.

Unisys announced multiple contracts valued up to $252 million from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) on Thursday.  

The Department of Energy awarded $19 million in grant funds to four domestic advanced nuclear technology projects under the U.S. Industry Opportunities for Advanced Nuclear Technology Development initiative. The grant program seeks to help industry teams boost the creation of U.S. commercial nuclear technologies and capabilities, DOE said Tuesday.

The Department of Energy plans to award $70M in grant funding to support technology development that will boost energy usage and production processes through the Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute.

The Department of Energy is investing $36M in 18 research projects that will methods develop new thermal exchange technologies and methods for efficient energy conversion. The projects are part of the High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Processes program and the OPEN+ Cohort, High Temperature device segment, the department said Friday.