NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 17 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart McWhorter and OMNICOMMANDER officials announced today the company will invest $1.3 million to expand its Brentwood, Tennessee, flagship office by hiring several key positions over the next two years. The financial technology internet company will create 58 new jobs in Williamson Co  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 17 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers used Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, to perform the first independent comparison test of leading quantum computers. The study surveyed 24 quantum processors and ranked results from each against performance numbers touted by such vendors as IBM, Rigetti and Quantinuum (formerly Honeywell). The research team  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following weekly case summary for May 1-5, 2023: * * * Summarized Board Decisions Lion Elastomers LLC (16-CA-190681, et al.; 372 NLRB No. 83) (https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4583a42c17) Port Neches, TX, May 1, 2023. On remand from the Fifth Circuit, a Board majority (Chairman McFerran and Members Wilcox and Prouty; Member Kaplan, dissenting) overruled the prior Board's decision in General Motors LLC, 369 NLRB  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 17 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Colleen Iversen, ecosystem ecologist, group leader and distinguished staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named director of the Department of Energy's Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic, or NGEE Arctic, a multi-institutional project studying permafrost thaw and other climate-related processes in Alaska. Iversen has worked as a  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news release: ORNL Site Office Deputy Manager Michele Branton presented ORISE Director Jim Vosburg with an official certificate acknowledging ORISE's continued status as a DOE Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star Site. Contractors whose programs meet the requirements for outstanding safety and health programs receive Star recognition, the highest level of achieve  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 17 -- The Tennessee Department of Education issued the following news release: As part of the Tennessee's ongoing commitment to bring Innovative School Models (ISMs) to every public middle and high school in Tennessee, the Tennessee Department of Education has awarded over $560 million across 137 public school districts and 45 public charter schools to invest in students and their postsecondary success. Thanks to the historic investment by Governor Lee and the Tennesse  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, May 17 -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news on May 16, 2023: Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed an executive order to advance Tennessee's position as a national leader in nuclear energy. Executive Order 101 creates the Tennessee Nuclear Energy Advisory Council, which will seek to build upon the state's legacy in nuclear innovation and drive continued investment to create a nuclear energy ecosystem for the future of Tennessee. "Tennessee is ready-made t  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, May 17 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on May 16, 2023: Attorney General Miyares today joined nearly two dozen Attorneys General in urging the Biden Administration to uphold Title IX protections for women and girls. On April 13, 2023, the Department of Education proposed an overreaching, unlawful rule that strips states of their power and duty to protect the equality, privacy and safety of women and girls by allowing biologica  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on May 15, 2023: * * * President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is Delivering in Tennessee As of May 2023 The Biden-Harris Administration has hit the ground running to implement the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and it is already delivering results for the people of Tennessee. To date, $4 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding has been announced and is headed to Tennessee with over 222 specifi  more