FEMP offers new eTraining on Federal Energy-Efficient Procurement The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) presents the new eTraining course, Contracting for Efficiency. This course offers federal contracting officers a concise introduction to the the process of procuring energy-efficient products and includes actionable guidance as it applies throughout the contracting process. Federal buyers are required t...

The Quantum Science Center (QSC) is a national quantum information science research center sponsored by the Department of Energy to overcome the key challenges facing the development of scalable quantum technologies. This talk will highlight accomplishments from the QSC partnership of 16 institutions working toward three scientific goals: (1) accelerating quantum information processing through new qubit and device designs, (2) creating predict...

Join us for an informative discussion about what the world has learned from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The war was expected to be short. Russia had its eyes on capturing Kyiv in a few days. Instead, Ukrainian resilience and Western support have led us to this point: a conflict with no end in sight. In the meantime, the war has changed our perspective on military strategy, operations, and tactics, but also diplomacy, intelligence, ener...

Microsoft Virtual Briefings are exclusive events that bring the cloud community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. You can use this unique opportunity to sit down with Microsoft leaders and subject matter experts in a small, intimate session to focus on tailored briefing topics and to get real-world answers to your questions. At this Virtual Briefing on Sustainability, you learn how to integrate and accelerate your sustainability jou...

Now in it’s 15th year, the IDGA Operational Energy Summit is the leading conference addressing U.S. DoD energy priorities and ensuring opportunities to enhance military capability, readiness, and resilience for the warfighter, while mitigating and reducing the risk and cost in the supply and use of energy in operations and training are met. The 2023 Operational Energy Summit will focus on the following themes, to confront the challenge o...

Doing Business With Oak Ridge National Laboratory https://www.govassociation.org/events The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Small Business Programs Office focuses daily on small business outreach, counseling, support, and advocacy. This includes attending conferences and trade shows, one-on-one meetings with small businesses, and individual problem-solving. As a contractor to the Department of Energy (DOE), ORNL works to meet annual small busine...

Although the term Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) is often used interchangeably with both Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and “drone,” a UAS is a “system” of three parts, with UAV or “drone” referring to the aircraft itself. In addition to the aircraft, the UAS includes the control station and the communication link between the control station and the aircraft. It is this communications link that is often the p...

Hear about improving sustainability with better energy tracking, reducing scrap and waste with improved defect detection, increasing throughput by visualizing equipment operation, and eliminating unplanned downtime due to equipment breakdown by predicting machine failure before it happens. Presented by experts from AWS and TensorIoT who have implemented solutions worldwide, with examples and case studies from real manufacturers and industrial...

Hear about improving sustainability with better energy tracking, reducing scrap and waste with improved defect detection, increasing throughput by visualizing equipment operation, and eliminating unplanned downtime due to equipment breakdown by predicting machine failure before it happens. Presented by experts from AWS and TensorIoT who have implemented solutions worldwide, with examples and case studies from real manufacturers and industrial...

Disruptions continue to affect organizations, including inflation and energy crises. A common reaction to growing uncertainties is to put on hold or stop innovation initiatives, including reducing the use of innovation labs. Innovation labs are a unit within the organization whose mission is to devise novel ideas that can either disrupt or complement the rest of the organization, and to deliver business-relevant outcomes. Smart organizations w...