Countermeasures
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently used computer modeling to map the process by which the Ebola and Zika viruses infiltrate host cells.
The researchers, who published their work in the journal Biomolecules, aimed to understand the specific structure-function... Read More »
The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be required to draft a comprehensive strategy to enhance school security and to clarify allowable uses of schools safety grants, under a bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Introduced by U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul... Read More »
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has already doubled the number of ongoing worksite cases from fiscal year 2017 to fiscal year 2018, the agency announced on Thursday.
From October to early May, HSI recorded 3,510 worksite investigations,... Read More »
Experts from NATO member-countries will collaborate on the development of a microwave imaging system that will be able to detect explosive devices and firearms in mass transportation hubs, NATO announced on Monday.
Experts from France’s Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches... Read More »
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) officials said the agency is working to develop initiatives designed to address potential threats posed by drones.
While drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), possess the potential to technology to... Read More »
A group of U.S. Senators recently sent a letter to President Donald Trump expressing concerns about his recent decision to freeze $200 million in funding for stabilization efforts in Syria, including a possible ISIS resurgence and increased foreign influence in the region.
“Providing... Read More »
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be required to establish a formal record-keeping process to document stops and searches under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Friday.
The Department of Homeland Security Accountability and... Read More »
Russia-linked cyber attacks targeted 18 state election systems, conducted malicious access attempts on six state voting-related websites, and gained access to “restricted elements of election infrastructure” in a handful of states during the 2016 elections, according to a U.S. Senate Select... Read More »
After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it would initiate formal rulemaking for its biometric exit program, a bipartisan pair of senators called on Friday for the agency to establish formal processes and procedures for collecting passenger data before expanding the... Read More »
Raytheon Company officials recently dedicated new facilities at Raytheon Missile Systems as part of a large-scale expansion and modernization project to increase capacity and capability of the firm’s Tucson, Arizona, operations.
“Our expansion supports the nation's military, the security of... Read More »
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen reissued last week the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin pertaining to the terror threat to the U.S. homeland.
Nielsen decided to extend the NTAS Bulletin after considering the current threat environment as well as input from... Read More »
The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee approved a national defense spending bill for fiscal year 2019 on Thursday that supports a number of military priorities in Arizona, including $163 million for new A-10 wings and $15 million for a new Aerospace Ground Equipment facility at Davis-Monthan... Read More »
An Italian national sentenced to 11 months in prison for trafficking assault rifle components and night vision goggles into the United States was deported to Italy on Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers.
Giovanni Zannoni,... Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has called on the federal government to provide sufficient funding and guidance to establish a disaster health response system, and for all 50 states to put required licensing arrangements into place, to ensure public health amid “complicated threats.”... Read More »
The upcoming Clade X exercise hosted by the Center for Health Security, which is part of the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will show the world how United States presidential advisors would handle policy decisions for an unfolding mock pandemic crisis.
“The... Read More »
Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) are supporting a measure seeking to direct attention to maintaining the nation’s artificial intelligence (AI) competitiveness in support of national security and economic interests.
Ernst, Cortez Masto said the bill establishes the... Read More »
Researchers recently developed a machine learning tool that can identify whether emerging strains of the bacterium Salmonella may cause dangerous bloodstream infections rather than food poisoning.
The tool speeds up the process for identifying the genetic changes that cause new invasive types of... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to conduct demonstration flights next year for full-scale technology capable of the airborne launch and recovery of multiple unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
Entering its third and final phase, DARPA’s “Gremlins” program would... Read More »
The Rhode Island Airport Corp. (RIAC) will receive nearly $7 million in reimbursements from the federal government for security enhancements made to T.F. Green Airport in Warwick in response to the 9/11 terror attacks, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) announced on Wednesday.
RIAC installed in-line... Read More »
As the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared a new Ebola outbreak in the Kongo on Tuesday, researchers from the University of Kent announced their findings that mass vaccination is not a viable option to prevent or contain Ebola outbreaks.
The team of researchers concluded that... Read More »
The technology known as 3D printing could disrupt labor markets and exacerbate security threats from violent actors, a new RAND Corporation paper suggests.
To the latter point, 3D printing could benefit military adversaries, violent extremists, and even street criminals, who could produce their... Read More »
Intelleuron, LLC has garnered a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate contract to design, develop and test intelligent reconnaissance technology.
Officials said the $199,977 award involves working with small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) in support of... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) recently sent a letter to U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary James Mattis asking him to consider a ban on DoD use of foreign-made drones until the completion of further threat-assessments.
The DoD previously deemed drones manufactured in China a potential... Read More »
Operation Guardian Support brought 180 U.S. National Guard troops to the Laredo Sector Border Patrol on Tuesday to serve as pilots, aerial observers, intelligence analysts, communication specialists, camera operators, mechanics and additional non-enforcement roles.
Additional National Guard... Read More »
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz called President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday “a major strategic mistake” that would impair U.S. ability to deter an Iranian nuclear program as well as its ability to prevent nuclear proliferation... Read More »
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal on Tuesday was applauded by U.S. Reps. Martha McSally (R-AZ) and Dan Donovan (R-NY), who argued that the agreement was “deeply flawed” and “prioritized Iran’s interests over American security.”
In... Read More »
The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs is conducting a training exercise from May 15-17 in the state simulating a long-term mass power outage.
The training exercise, known as Dark Sky, will take place in Brown, Calumet, Dane, Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, Outagamie, and Winnebago Counties. It is... Read More »
A professional services and technology firm has been awarded a contract to provide combat-ready equipment to Marines worldwide.
KBR, Inc. officials said the contract calls for a modification by the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to provide prepositioning and logistics support services for the USMC... Read More »
Machine-based algorithms in use by an international team of researchers have found a way to predict people’s susceptibility to cholera through gut bacteria.
Out of trillions of bacteria swimming around the gut, the artificial intelligence (AI) determined a hundred microbes that establish... Read More »
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), through the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, recently awarded BAE Systems a $13.1 million contract to demonstrate an optical seeker for precision-guided munitions.
The seeker uses passive electro-optical and infrared sensors to... Read More »
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) fielded more than 300,000 reports of internet crimes in 2017, and losses totaled more than $1.4 billion, according to the 2017 Internet Crime Report released on Monday.
Compromised business email accounts led to $676 million in losses in 2017,... Read More »
U.S. diplomats would have access to new tools to rein in state sponsors of terrorism, to counter violent extremism, and to enhance regional and global security under a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday.
The International Security Assistance Act of 2018, H.R. 5677,... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) screened more than 1 million Kentucky Derby Festival attendees for potential terrorist threats and weapons of mass destruction over the weekend.
Teams comprised of officers from the CBP Port of Louisville and the CBP Chicago Laboratories & Scientific... Read More »
A clinical trial examining the effectiveness of a universal influenza vaccine is currently underway, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Officials said the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-sponsored Phase 2 effort focuses on M-001 as a means of garnering... Read More »
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems were recently awarded sole-source contracts for the U.S. Navy’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) program, shaving four years from the procurement process and supporting a 2023 launch date.
Next-Gen OPIR aims to improve... Read More »
