Energy expects $74M in annual savings from new AI and data tools
Department of Energy Deputy CIO Bridget Carper Arnone speaks at the Government Executive Efficiency Summit on July 16, 2026. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW
July 16, 2026 05:18 PM ET
The agency is expanding an enterprise data platform to all department elements and increasingly using artificial intelligence in daily operations.
The Energy Department estimates that Quanta, its internal enterprise data platform, and Joulix, a generative artificial intelligence suite of tools, will generate $74 million in annual operational savings, an Energy official said Thursday.
In implementing internal AI tools more generally, “we weren’t so concerned with ‘oh this is a new technology.’ It was ‘how do we use this to meet the Energy mission,’” Bridget Carper Arnone, deputy chief information officer for architecture, engineering, technology and innovation, said at GovExec’s Government Efficiency Summit.
The department plans to expand Quanta access to all 88 departmental elements by the end of...
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