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The Air Force has crafted a Light Attack Aircraft plan, which they said is the first step toward working with industry to generate the final RFP expected at the end of the year.
A draft request for proposal was shared with Sierra Nevada /Embraer and Textron Aviation following the conclusion of... Read More »
Raytheon announced Monday the opening of a new facility designed to solely focus upon radar testing and integration, with an overarching goal of developing manufacturing innovations.
The $72 million, 30,000 square-foot facility, based in Andover, Mass., is the primary location for testing and... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently began testing eight barrier design prototypes for the U.S. border wall with Mexico, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns they are doing so without an analysis of cost.
Topography, land ownership, and other factors all play a part... Read More »
In a new study conducted by researchers at the Ohio State University, an experimental Zika virus vaccine has shown promise in mice with the potential of treating human patients infected with the disease.
"In this study, the vaccine was potent, safe and highly effective, at least in the short... Read More »
West Nile virus has been found in 51 Pennsylvania counties as of Aug. 1 after heavy rains and flooding struck the state.
More than 150 people have been infected within the commonwealth over the past six years.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has issued an advisory to alert medical... Read More »
Connecticut-based drone manufacturer RADeCO, Inc. was featured this week by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) as “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer,” recognition he bestows on select U.S. manufacturers.
The RADeCO, which stands for RADiation Detection COmpany, manufactures air monitoring... Read More »
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit recently helped execute a wiretap investigation leading to 32 drug and gambling arrests.
HSI’s New York division worked with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in... Read More »
Marine Corps units from Air Station Beaufort joined members of the U.S. Navy, Naval Hospital Beaufort, Savannah Coast Guard and local responders on a first-ever search and rescue exercise with F-35 fighters July 27.
The exercise, which took place on the Beaufort River, paired pilots and first... Read More »
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced last week that tests of cases in the country’s North Kivu province by the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) revealed Ebola in patients.
Though the news came just over a week after the Ministry of Health... Read More »
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently provided counterterrorism training at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Roswell, N.M. to law enforcement delegations from six African nations.
The participants were judges, prosecutors, and police officers from Angola,... Read More »
The Reliance Fire Company No. 1 in Berwick, Pa., recently received a $119,610 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program.
Established in 2001, the AFG program provides firefighters and... Read More »
A group of lawmakers recently introduced a measure designed to bolster Russian sanctions, with the goal of applying economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on the Federation.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) joined Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC),
Bob Menendez... Read More »
Lockheed Martin has chosen WAV4M to serve as its exclusive reseller for the Universal Communications Platform (UCP) to address a potential $14 billion critical communications market.
“There’s been an ongoing industry debate between traditional land mobile radio versus mission critical... Read More »
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is hosting a summit in Washington, D.C. this week to gather together technology innovators for the first responder industry.
The summit will take place on Thursday, Aug. 9, and represents the second... Read More »
The August Terror Threat Snapshot, released by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), found a steady influence of Islamic-driven terrorism in the United States and Europe.
The report showed that there have been 157 cases of terrorism in the United States spurred by the... Read More »
The Rhode Island fire departments recently received $106,668 through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program for the purchase of needed equipment and gear.
The Central Falls Fire Department was awarded $59,048. It will use the funds to... Read More »
The U.S. Air Force recently released its Next Generation Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Dominance Flight Plan, which is a strategy for maintaining and enhancing competitive advantage in the rapidly changing digital era through 2028.
“We need to balance our ISR portfolio... Read More »
Two national organizations that represent biopharmaceutical and business interests have penned a letter to each member of the U.S. House of Representatives urging lawmakers to approve the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2018, H.R. 6378, before critical public... Read More »
Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced Wednesday legislation designed to enhance cyber hunt and cyber incident response teams working to prevent attacks on federal and private sector entities.
Portman and Hassan said the DHS Cyber Incident Response Teams Act works to... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently hosted a Cybersecurity Summit, with the goal of establishing a vision for a defense strategy to protect the nation’s infrastructure.
Officials said the effort in New York City united industry and top federal personnel, resulting in a series of... Read More »
U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AK) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced Wednesday the Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act which seeks to reinstate and enhance penalties against repeat offenders.
The initial Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), which passed in 1984, required a mandatory minimum 15-year... Read More »
Last year marked the third consecutive year the number of terrorist attacks and resulting deaths have decreased worldwide, but global terrorist events remain historically high, according to recent data released by the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and... Read More »
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced this week that Operation Guardian Support is expanding at Arizona’s ports of entry as the National Guard continues to improve border security.
The operation began in April. It has 491 volunteer National Guard members at the... Read More »
Three high-ranking members of an Eastern Europe-based cybercrime group have been arrested and are facing charges filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
The three Ukrainians are members of a hacking group known by many names including FIN7, the Carbanak Group, and the Navigator Group. Each has... Read More »
The global spread of a deadly disease outbreak during a biological attack would impact far more than U.S. government financial resources, former federal lawmakers say, and could crash the coffers of local and state budgets just as severely.
“We know unequivocally that terrorists have the... Read More »
A group of legislators introduced Tuesday a bill designed to block the online publication of blueprints used to make fully functioning 3D-printed guns.
Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) joined 20 of their Senate colleagues in crafting the measure, which would make it illegal for... Read More »
The Air Force has awarded a $96.1 million contract to Raytheon to produce 250 Miniature Air- Launched Decoy (MALD) missiles.
Officials said the MALD system is an air-launched missile with both decoy and jamming capabilities, possessing the ability to stimulate and neutralize enemy air defense... Read More »
Following recommendations made by the Attorney General’s recent Cyber Digital Task Force report, a group of U.S. senators introduced Tuesday a pair of bills intended to safeguard the U.S. election infrastructure from future cybercrimes.
The bills, the International Cybercrime Prevention Act... Read More »
BAE Systems recently was awarded a U.S. Army contract to provide 250 touchscreen computer display units (CDU) on Black Hawk helicopters, the army’s primary medium-lift transport aircraft.
The CDUs are an upgrade to BAE’s ASN-128 Doppler GPS Navigation System.
The ASN-128 operates on more... Read More »
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently announced it will install a computed tomography scanner (CT) at the Philadelphia International Airport.
The technology allows for 360-degree views of baggage contents and can automatically detect explosives, including liquids.
In the... Read More »
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. said on Tuesday it began the first phase of a clinical study for its anti-Zika virus immune globulin, known as ZIKV-IG, which was fast-tracked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2017.
Concern over Zika virus disease, transmitted by mosquitoes, has risen... Read More »
Two businesses owned by Textron Inc., a multi-industry aircraft, defense, industrial and finance company, successfully integrated and demonstrated Textron’s Synturian software and a Scorpion jet Monday.
Textron Systems and Textron Aviation Defense installed the software into the jet’s... Read More »
Developing drugs for rapid response to treat emerging infectious diseases requires overcoming numerous hurdles.
For a start, there are few large-scale pharmaceutical campaigns. The reality is quite the opposite, as it can be a challenge for the government to convince pharmaceutical companies to... Read More »
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently announced it will install 15 more computed tomography scanners (CT) at checkpoints in U.S. airports.
The technology is already in use at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and Boston’s Logan International Airport. A third unit was... Read More »
Global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin will helm a U.S. Army project to develop an unmanned convoy system in combat environments over the next three years.
"We are leveraging 15 years of experience in developing autonomous capabilities for our customers," said Gaylia Campbell,... Read More »
