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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy partnered with the Department of Energy, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and other technology companies to launch a new consortium to advance research into the new coronavirus using supercomputers, TechCruch reported Monday. The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium also includes Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google as well as NASA, National Science Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and national laboratories, including Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Sandia National Laboratory.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for expanding the company’s revenue and influence in the sector through valuable contract awards, partnerships and important executive appointments.

Philip Breidenbach, former chief engineer of Savannah River Remediation, has been appointed president and project manager of the Amentum-led liquid waste management contractor supporting the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site.

Tom Foster, a more than 35-year nuclear industry veteran, will assume the role of chief operating officer of Amentum’s nuclear and environment strategic business unit on March 1.

Unwin, a Columbus, Ohio-based risk management consulting firm, has received a potential $216.9M contract from the Department of Energy for administrative and technical support.

The Department of Energy will award up to $625M over five years to support the establishment of as many as five centers to advance research in the field of quantum information science. "The National Quantum Initiative launched by the President, including these new research centers, leverages the combined strengths of academia, industry, and DOE laboratories to drive QIS breakthroughs,” said Michael Kratsios, U.S. chief technology officer and a 2019 Wash100 awardee.

The Department of Energy has awarded a Leidos-led (NYSE: LDOS) joint venture a potential $4B contract to provide infrastructure and services for an environmental cleanup project at a former plutonium manufacturing complex in southern Washington state over the next decade.

A team composed of AECOM (NYSE: ACM), Fluor (NYSE: FLR) and Atkins has received a potential 10-year, $10B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Department of Energy to perform cleanup work at the Hanford site in Washington.

Energy services firm Noresco has received a 21-year, $169.3M task order to update and maintain infrastructure at the U.S. Navy’s submarine base in Groton, Conn. to help the service branch achieve its energy efficiency goals.

A team comprised of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and Centerra Group has secured a potential 10-year, $4B contract to perform site services at the Department of Energy’s Hanford facility.