Countermeasures
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 »
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) staff recently developed virtual reality environments designed to support industry in designing user interfaces for use by first responders.
These interfaces could include visual indicators, sounds or voice commands that could be embedded... Read More »
U.S. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone became commander of U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) and director of the National Security Agency (NSA) during a change-of-command ceremony held in Fort Meade, Maryland, on Friday.
Nakasone assumed command from retiring U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Rogers. Nakasone, who was... Read More »
After concluding that conditions in Honduras have “notably improved” since a 1999 hurricane led to Hondurans being granted temporary protected status (TPS) in the United States, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans on Friday to terminate TPS designation in January... Read More »
Researchers last week published findings in the journal Scientific Reports which utilized a marmoset monkey model of Zika virus infection to understand how Zika causes congenital disease in their human counterparts.
"We were interested in using primate models to better understand how the Zika... Read More »
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently announced its Unlinkable Data Challenge, which seeks proposals for approaches to de-identifying personal information in large databases to improve individuals’ privacy.
The program aims to help the public safety community... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at the Area Port of Baltimore have conducted 3,534 container searches since January, issuing 360 emergency action notifications and executing 625 actionable interceptions of commodities.
The Area Port of Baltimore has witnessed... Read More »
A regional basic training course offered by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Panama from April 23-27 allowed first responders from Latin America and the Caribbean to improve chemical incident response capabilities.
Organized jointly by OPCW and the Panamanian... Read More »
The Raytheon Company has been selected to help design, build and support a next-generation air traffic management system for an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) testing airspace corridor in New York State, the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) Alliance announced on Thursday.... Read More »
America’s response to potential worldwide biological threats — either naturally occurring or imposed by terrorists — must evolve, experts told the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense during its April 25 public meeting addressing current transnational biothreats and the global security... Read More »
Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday its first U.S. customer, Aurora Flight, for a new vehicle control software -- the Vehicle Control Station software VCSi -- that boasts the ability to control dozens of unmanned vehicles at the same time.
The decision was made by Aurora Flight and Lockheed... Read More »
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had added six international airlines to its PreCheck program, the administration announced on Wednesday.
The six new partnering airlines include Air Serbia, Condor Airlines, Porter Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines (UK), and... Read More »
The Air Force announced Wednesday that it will host the new B-21 Raider aircraft at three existing bomber bases beginning in the mid-2020s.
The B-21 Raider will replace B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit aircraft at Dyess Air Force Base (AFB), Texas; Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota; and Whiteman AFB,... Read More »
Government agencies, private organizations, and individuals have been invited to take part in the biannual the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Level Exercise being held through May 11 to vet lessons learned during the 2017 hurricane season.
The 2018 National Level... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invited small businesses to submit ideas to enhance security screening to the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) on Wednesday for a chance to receive up... Read More »
A U.S. airstrike killed ISIS leaders in the Faryab province of Afghanistan and eastern Syria, and the Egyptian military killed an ISIS leader in the Sinai Peninsula last month, according to a monthly terror threat assessment released by the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.... Read More »
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there has been a troubling rise in cases of illness associated with mosquito, tick and flea bites in the United States over the last 13 years; in fact, cases have tripled.
More than 640,000 cases of illness were reported during... Read More »
Wellcome Trust has earmarked a $3.6 million grant award as a means of aiding the malaria drug research process.
Officials said the funding allotment would benefit the work of researchers from Australia's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Merck & Co., Inc., which is known as MSD in Australia,... Read More »
Engility Holdings, Inc. recently announced that it was awarded a five-year, $90 million task order to provide software engineering and production support to the U.S. Navy's tactical afloat and submarine local area networks.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic awarded the Tactical... Read More »
In an effort to enhance security in the boundary waters between the United States and Canada, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Tuesday that it has expanded pilot locations for its Reporting Offsite Arrival-Mobile (ROAM) application for operators of small boats.
The ROAM... Read More »
Ahead of an anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un later this month, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) noted on Tuesday that the “critical question” is whether North Korea is willing to relinquish nuclear facilities, materials, and bombs in a “verifiable,... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) recently collaborated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard (USGC) to assess critical mission capabilities of two National Security Cutters (NSC) through weeks of at-sea testing.
The cutters, the USCGC... Read More »
Engineers from Lehigh University have earned themselves a 3-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support an unusual means of Ebola outbreak prediction by tracking the ecological factors of bat migration patterns.
The effort follows A New England Journal of Medicine study... Read More »
