AUBURN, Alabama, Jan. 13 (TNSper) -- Auburn University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Daniel Tauritz, associate professor of computer science and software engineering, and interim director/chief cyber artificial intelligence strategist of the Auburn Cyber Research Center since 2020, has been appointed as the university's director for national laboratory relationships (DNLR). Tauritz's appointment to the newly created position went into effect Jan. 1, 2023. The U.S. Depart  more

AUBURN, Alabama, Jan. 13 (TNSper) -- Auburn University issued the following campus notice: Daniel Tauritz, associate professor of computer science and software engineering, and interim director/chief cyber artificial intelligence strategist of the Auburn Cyber Research Center since 2020, has been appointed as the university's director for national laboratory relationships. Tauritz's appointment to the newly created position went into effect Jan. 1, 2023. The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE,   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Jan. 14 (TNSgov) -- The Los Alamos Study Group posted the following news release on Jan. 12, 2023: The Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) year-long 78-page review of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) program to reconstitute U.S. production of plutonium warhead cores ("pits") highlights the program's lack of some basic management elements, such as detailed budgets, life-cycle cost estimates, and schedules linked to program requirements and m  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending December 16, 2022 Onsite Transportation: Last Friday, Triad submitted their response to the NNSA Field Office regarding incorporating compensatory measures to increase the saf  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on Jan. 11, 2023: A new paper by a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is giving researchers new insight into how countries respond to systemic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. "This is one of the first papers to quantify resiliency using a data-driven approach, since most of the existing approaches rely on subject-matter expertise," said Sara Del Valle, of the Labor  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Jan. 12 (TNSres) -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2023: * * * Despite decades of preparation, NNSA still does not know how many nuclear warhead cores ("pits") it can make, by when, or at what cost Construction and start-up costs much higher than expected, especially at Los Alamos; schedules delayed Largest project in New Mexico history is now many multiples of original cost, serious hurdles remain Los Alamos Study Group: ri  more