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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened a pair of grant programs that aim to develop a modern workforce of both aircraft pilots and aviation maintainers. FAA said Tuesday that it will award the Aircraft Pilots and Aviation Maintenance Technical Workers Workforce Development Grants to build an expanded talent pool of pilots, unmanned aircraft systems operators, aerospace engineers and aircraft maintenance technicians.

The Department of Homeland Security will invest $10 million in a federal assistance program that seeks to provide local communities with resources to help counter violent extremism. DHS said Wednesday the Countering Violent Extremism grant program for fiscal 2016 was developed to help empower state, local and tribal governments, nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions …

The Defense Department has chosen 23 multidisciplinary research projects to receive grants worth a total of $162 million over the next five years. DoD said Thursday 54 academic institutions will engage in the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program for fiscal year 2016 through the selected science and engineering projects. In FY …

The General Services Administration‘s 18F unit wants to expand its consulting and acquisition services in efforts to forge partnerships with federal agencies to support grants for state and local digital services programs. Under the expanded practice, 18F plans to offer agile and modular design to federal agencies that provide grants to …

The Energy Department has awarded at least $60 million to 72 research and development projects on nuclear energy as part of efforts to stop greenhouse gas emissions and foster energy security. “I remain convinced that nuclear energy will continue to be an important part of the nation’s energy portfolio,” Energy Secretary Ernest …

The Department of Health and Human Services will pilot the data standardization measures of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act over a two-year period beginning May 2015, FedScoop reported Wednesday in an exclusive. Billy Mitchell writes that the Office of Management and Budget has tasked HHS to implement the federal grant reporting portion of …

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to a team led by Indiana University to develop analytics technology that will support high-volume and dynamic data across the cyberinfrastructure. NSF said the project aims to leverage high-performance computing and the commercial Apache Big Data Stack to design and deploy a Middleware for Data-Intensive Analytics and …

A consortium led by the University of Michigan has secured a potential $25 million federal grant to research and develop tools for monitoring international nonproliferation commitments. The National Nuclear Security Administration selected the consortium to explore technologies for helping the U.S. verify if nations are in compliance with nonproliferation obligations …