The effects of sequestration and uncertainty resulting from October’s federal government shutdown are impacting research efforts at universities and national laboratories that depend on federal funding for support.
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The US Department of Energy last week announced awards totaling about $60 million to support innovative solar energy research and development of both solar materials to improve efficiency and so-called “soft” costs such as solar photovoltaic system design, permitting, and installation.
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As the federal government shutdown drags through its second week, it is impacting federal research efforts and not much seems to have changed in terms of the entrenched political positions of the Obama administration, House Republicans, and Senate Democrats.
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Renewable energy technologies such as solar and fuel cells are moving toward commercialization but still compete for government R&D funding.
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The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute announced a request for proposals for its second round of projects on additive manufacturing. The RFP is open to any organization or institution, but a NAMII member must be a partner in the proposal. NAMII expects to award $9 million in multiple awards.
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An energy spending bill that passed in the US House of Representatives in July would gut DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
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It’s all blue skies above the US Capitol in this photo, but the federal budget picture for 2014 remains cloudy. (Credit: Raul654/Wikimedia Commons.) Basic government funding is set to expire…
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The Materials Genome Initiative. Credit: MGI, OSTP, White House. The Materials Genome Initiative continues to gain momentum, driven in part by workshops sponsored by federal agencies with a lot of…
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The Department of Energy’s network of 17 national laboratories and five related facilities has been responsible for a multitude of materials science and other innovations since World War II. Now…
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Representatives of the American Ceramic Society (led by Richard Brow) and the Chinese Ceramic Society led by Peng Shou, along with leaders from the International Commission on Glass team met…
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