The Energy Department will award $32 million in grants for 10 new projects under its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy directorate’s Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles program.

The projects will utilize new CAV technologies designed to utilize on-board or cloud-based sensors, data and computation capabilities in an effort to mitigate energy usage of connected and automated vehicles, DOE said Wednesday.

NEXTCAR technologies works to provide cruise control and vehicle speed harmonization and energy-saving options for future CAVs and potential vehicle efficiency technologies by co-optimizing with vehicle dynamic and powertrain controls.

Data from CAV systems and NEXTCAR technologies will help vehicles to predict future driving conditions, shifting road grade and interactions between automobiles within multiple intersections.

“As our vehicles become creators and consumers of more and more data, we have a transformative opportunity to put that new information to the additional use of saving energy in our road transportation system,” said Ellen Williams, ARPA-E director.

The Government Accountability Office‘s inspector general has determined that GAO “effectively” implemented policies and procedures to remove sensitive data from information technology devices that were slated for disposal.

GAO said Wednesday the inspector general assessed GAO’s compliance with media sanitization policies to verify whether laptops and BlackBerry devices were appropriately sanitized before being discarded.

The report stated IT devices require special handling and controls to mitigate unauthorized access, use or disclosure of sensitive data such as personally identifiable information.

GAO noted electronic media should be tracked and secured then permanently deleted to ensure an effective disposal process.

Marc Panucci, a partner at PwC‘s national professional services group, has been named deputy chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

SEC said Wednesday Panucci will lead its professional practice group’s activities and oversee tasks of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

He worked at SEC as senior associate chief accountant from 2007 to 2010 and will return to the commission to succeed Brian Croteau later this month.

“Marc’s prior experience as an SEC senior associate chief accountant as well as his expertise and wealth of experience in public accounting will provide critical service to investors, companies and the Commission,” said Wesley Bricker, SEC interim chief accountant.

Panucci has more than two decades of public accounting, standard-setting and regulatory experience.

He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant’s Auditing Standards Board.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has unveiled a new interactive online tool developed to help cybersecurity job seekers find openings as well as assist employers with tasks to identify potential applicants.

NIST said Tuesday the CompTIA-developed CyberSeek online service and the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education introduced the system at the 2016 NICE conference in Missouri.

NICE helped helped fund the development of the tool.

“This interactive tool will assist its users — students, employees, employers, policy makers, training providers and guidance counselors — to explore opportunities they may have never considered,” said Rodney Petersen, NICE director.

NIST noted employers that seek to move or expand operations can use the CyberSeek map to identify locations with a large base of cybersecurity job seekers while applicants can look for openings based on the size of a metropolitan area.

CyberSeek will also look to provide guidance on how employees can advance in a cybersecurity career from entry-level positions to mid- and advanced-level jobs.