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Federal Tipoffs Involving Tennessee Newsletter for 2024-12-01 ( 10 items )  
Award-winning ORNL research tackles cracking in jet engine repairs (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Brian Jordan, Niyanth Sridharan and Yousub Lee received the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award by the American Welding Society. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A paper written by researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was selected as the top paper of 2023 by Welding Journal. The team behind the paper former ORNL material scientis more PR

Brogan honored with IEEE senior membership (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Joel Brogan, who leads the Multimodal Sensor Analytics group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. As the highest level of membership, senior status is awarded to only 10% of IEEE members. The designation is reserved for those who have made a significant contributio more PR

Experts convene to explore strategies for rejuvenating US manufacturing at ORNL (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Workshop connects entire value chain of stakeholders "The PM-HIP workshop engaged 200 attendees representing a variety of industry, government and academic stakeholders, including powder manufacturers, researchers, modelers, capsule fabricators, HIP'ers and end-users of components produced through PM-HIP," said Dave Gandy, principal technical executive at EPRI and a more PR

FCC Wireline Competition Bureau Issues Public Notice: Copper Retirement Network Change Notification Filed By AT&T Tennessee (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket No. 24-661) on Nov. 27, 2024: * * * Re: Copper Retirement Network Change Certification Received BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC d/b/a AT&T Tennessee (AT&T), an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change(s) involving the retirement of copper has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet  more PR

FEMA Assistance Won't Affect Social Security, Other Federal Benefits Tennesseans May Receive (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Applying for federal disaster assistance from FEMA will not affect other federal benefits that Tennessee survivors of Tropical Storm Helene who had damage from Sept. 26-30 may receive. Residents in Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Johnson, Unicoi and Washington counties who apply for disaster assistance with FEMA may have questions about whether receivi more PR

Fifty years of impact: Larry Seiber builds, tests components that power wireless charging breakthroughs (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Road to electronics Growing up in Lake City, Tennessee, now known as Rocky Top, Seiber knew about ORNL early on his dad was a pipefitter for the lab. With his dad's encouragement, he decided to pursue an engineering career. "I didn't know what I wanted to do, but dad, working around engineers every day, brought up electrical engineering and said I needed to try it. more PR

Improved catalyst turns harmful greenhouse gases into cleaner fuels, chemical feedstocks (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: With an improved catalyst, ORNL chemists converted two greenhouse gases, methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2), to syngas, a valuable mix of hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO). Credit: Philip Gray/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A chemical reaction can convert two polluting greenhouse gases into valuable building blocks for cleaner fuels and feedstocks, but the high more PR

Nuclear is here ... and here and here (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In fall 2020, California-based Kairos Power announced plans to build an advanced nuclear demonstration reactor within the site of the former K-25 uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge. It was a good location for the company. The decommissioned K-25, now named Heritage Center Industrial Park, came with impressive infrastructure, including ample electricity from the T more PR

ORNL announces new cohort of Technology Transfer Liaisons (10)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced its latest cohort of technology transfer liaisons, a group of experts selected to bridge the gap between research and commercialization efforts. This program, designed by ORNL's Technology Transfer Office, empowers selected researchers to guide their peers through the patenting, licensing and commercialization processes, ensuri more PR

U.S. Attorney for D.C.: Tennessee Father, Son Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Law Enforcement With Weapon During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach (10)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Nov. 26, 2024: * * * Tennessee Father and Son Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Law Enforcement With Weapon During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach A Father and son from Tennessee were sentenced to prison today after they were both previously convicted of assaulting law enforcement and other charges stemming from their conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. Thei more PR