WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $72 million for three sets of projects that will innovate manufacturing processes for wind and water technologies and accelerate the equitable and sustainable deployment of offshore and land-based wind energy. This funding includes $27 million from the Biparti  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: As a high school freshman, Verity Gray promised she would take the initiative to challenge herself and serve others around her at the same time. "Though this was a very general goal of mine, it has become one of the values that is most central to my personal identity," Gray said. Now that she's a senior at East Mountain High School in Sandia Park, New Mexico, as well as a cadet first lieutenant in  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement welcoming a proposal from the U.S. Department of Interior to withdraw 4,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in southern Sandoval County, including the Buffalo Tract and the Crest of Montezuma, from any mineral development for 50 years. Heinric  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) announced that the Southwest Advanced Prototyping (SWAP) Hub has been selected to be funded through the Department of Defense's (DOD) Microelectronics Commons program. The announcement marks the first official allocation of funding through the CHIPS and Science Act, legislation championed by the senators. The DOD Mi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: The partnership funded by DOD grant through CHIPS and Science Act will consist of universities, national laboratories, community colleges, and private sector partners from across New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) announced that the Southwest Advanced Prototyping (SWAP) Hub has been selected to be funded through the De  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: The partnership funded by DOD grant through CHIPS and Science Act will consist of universities, national laboratories, community colleges, and private sector partners from across Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico Today, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, a chief negotiator of the landmark CHIPS and Science Act, along with Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Ben Ray Luj  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) released the following statement on the announcement by the Department of the Interior that it would use administrative authority to protect more than 4,000 acres near Placitas from mining in Sandoval County, New Mexico. The proposed administrative withdrawal would safeguard important Tribal lands, support ecological and wildlife connectivity, and boos  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Program to widen STEM employment pool * * * A government-funded consortium offering science and technology learning opportunities to student minorities aims to, over time, equalize workforce demographics at national laboratories, said leaders of the effort at Sandia National Laboratories. The partnership, titled the Rio Grande Consortium for Adv  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Program provides professional development, applied experience for college students * * * Nearly every day, a cyberattack or newly discovered zero-day exploit hits the headlines, which makes providing the best training for the next generation of cybersecurity professionals of vital importance. Sandia National Laboratories' internship institute in  more