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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Georgia State University researchers maintain a new peptides-based vaccine protects mice against influenza A virus.
Investigators said the double-layered nanoparticle vaccine was developed using peptides, compounds consisting of two or more amino acids linked in a chain because they are much... Read More »
While the inherent danger of antimicrobial resistance is growing, increasing the threat of a global public health crisis, a new national institute to address the threat has been created through a partnership between universities in Nebraska and Iowa.
The new Institute for Antimicrobial... Read More »
The spread of tickborne infections has risen significantly in the past decade, with the upward trend likely to continue, according to a recent report by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Lyme disease represents the majority of tickborne infections in the United... Read More »
KBRwyle, a subsidiary of professional services and technology provider KBR, Inc., has been awarded a $36.5 million Air Force Installation Contracting Agency (AFICA) missiles system contract.
Officials said KBRwyle would provide sustainment engineering support to the 414th Supply Chain Management... Read More »
An updated database released this week has identified more than 170 incidents of nuclear and radioactive material trafficking across 14 countries in 2017.
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) officials said the Global Incidents and Trafficking Database, produced for NTI by the Center for... Read More »
In a massive study that examined data from 76 countries collected from 1959 to 2009, analysts from the University of Illinois have found that outbreaks of chikungunya and dengue fever -- both linked to mosquitoes -- are most affected by population density and proximity to a country already... Read More »
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) officials will be participating in several discussion panels presented at the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management’s (INMM) 59th annual meeting this week in Baltimore, Md.
NTI Vice President Corey Hinderstein provided opening remarks at the first plenary... Read More »
Plurilock Security Solutions recently received a $200,000 contract award from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).
The funds will develop an identity management platform to improve the security of smart devices, sensors and other devices, such as... Read More »
For nine nations adjoining the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) has assessed that the threat of a dangerous Ebola spread is high at the regional level.
An outbreak of the disease has stricken the Congo since May, and though the WHO has resisted calling for... Read More »
The U.S. government recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $450 million contract to design and plan construction of four Multi-Mission Surface Combatants (MMSC) for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The awarded Undefinitized Contract Action (UCA) agreement will be built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine... Read More »
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) recently launched new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-certified courses focused on educating community members about violent extremism and how to respond to it effectively.
The multidisciplinary... Read More »
Lockheed Martin recently announced that it would invest $5 million in vocational and trade programs and create 8,000 new apprenticeship opportunities over the next five years.
Programs will give new employees experience and help mid-career employees keep their skills current.
The investment... Read More »
New York City will host to a National Security Summit at the end of this month, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which will sponsor the event.
The meeting will gather federal employees of numerous agencies together with academics and private sector CEOs through a... Read More »
Lockheed Martin and ThalesRaytheonSystems signed a joint venture on Tuesday to provide territorial ballistic missile defense (BMD) command and control capability to the NATO Alliance.
The agreement establishes a team of industry representatives from NATO member countries to advance low-risk... Read More »
The U.S. Army will use Raytheon Company's unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to counter the threat of enemy unmanned aerial vehicles in the skies above the battlefield.
The Army will use Raytheon’s Coyote unmanned aircraft system as well as its Ku band radio frequency system (KRFS) radar toward... Read More »
Boeing and Air Force personnel said the KC-46 refueling tanker program completed all flight testing required for first delivery represents a major milestone.
Mike Gibbons, Boeing KC-46A tanker vice president and program manager, said the program completion reflects a significant achievement for... Read More »
A public-private partnership between federal agencies and Spero Therapeutics, Inc. announced on Monday will strive to develop an oral antibiotic to treat infections resulting from biothreat pathogens like anthrax, plague, and antibiotic-resistant infections.
The U.S. Department of Health and... Read More »
U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II fighters aboard the USS Wasp amphibious assault ship in the Pacific Ocean are using Raytheon Company's technology to guide them.
Specifically, the fighters are using Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services business's Joint Precision Approach and... Read More »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently approved a new drug for the treatment of smallpox, a pill stockpiled in case the virus is used as a bioweapon.
TPOXX, a small-molecule antiviral treatment, is the first therapy approved for this biosecurity use and was developed by SIGA... Read More »
Lockheed Martin and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) personnel recently executed a series of flight tests designed to demonstrate seamless weapons systems integration.
The effort, which involved using Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works development program and executed at the Naval... Read More »
A variant of the Raytheon, Co. Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) scored a direct hit on an aerial target in a guided flight test after being launched from the U.S. Navy’s self-defense test ship off the coast of southern California on Sunday.
The ESSM Block 2 intermediate-range, surface-to-air... Read More »
While most of the efforts surrounding mosquito-transmitted disease focus on the aftermath, a new sensor under development by SMK Diagnostics would allow for earlier intervention.
SMK -- a startup begun by Purdue University professors -- builds on previous biosensor technology used to monitor... Read More »
Georgia State University professor Christopher Basler recently received a two-year, $419,100 federal grant to study a virus similar to the Ebola virus that causes disease in animals but not in humans.
Basler, director of the university's Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and a Georgia Research... Read More »
Several organizations, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) biosecurity program, received a grant last week to create a Global Health Security (GHS) Index.
The GHS Index will assess countries’ capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to high consequence biological events. This... Read More »
