KIRTLAND AFB, New Mexico, June 25 -- The U.S. Space Force issued the following news: By Senior Airman Ruben Garibay, 377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman visited Kirtland Air Force Base and its mission partners, June 12-14. During his visit, Saltzman engaged closely with multiple Team Kirtland units. He met with several groups from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles and Directed Energy Directorates, with the Space Rapid Capabilities  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release on June 25, 2024: * * * DOE Mentor of the Year and Service-Disabled Veteran Business of the Year * * * The Department of Energy has once again awarded Sandia National Laboratories for its work helping small businesses. One of those businesses, owned by a disabled veteran, was also awarded for its extraordinary work. DOE Mentor of the Year Sandia's small busines  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Academy of Engineering issued the following news release: Seventy-six highly accomplished, early-career engineers have been selected to participate in the 2024 The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together to share new techniques and approaches across fields, facili  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Key researchers from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories converged on NETL's Albany, Oregon, site to discuss hydrogen energy-related research work of eXtremeMAT-H2-- an NETL-led consortium of laboratories that accelerates the development of cost-effective alloys for use in the harsh environments of advanced energy systems. Clean hydrogen is int  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation has awarded $50 million in cooperative agreements to two university consortia to support the basic science that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation missions. The two consortia, led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the G  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces released the following joint testimony from a May 22, 2024, hearing entitled "The Department of Energy's Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Department of Defense Nuclear Weapons Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the Future Years Defense Program." The witnesses are National Nuclear Security Administrator Jill Hruby and Marvin L. Adams, deputy administrator for defens  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news: It's not often that high school students get to spend part of their summer exploring a new part of the country, touring national laboratories, meeting research scientists, and creating memories that will last a lifetime. That was the reality for the participants of this year's Joint Science and Technology Institute (JSTI). From June 8-21, 2024, ORISE hosted   more

LA JOLLA, California, June 26 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Alex Fox and Lauren Fimbres Wood The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) approved the preliminary design of a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid research vessel that will join the fleet at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography when completed. The vessel's design was developed by naval architecture and marine engineering firm Glosten. Approval of the prelimina  more