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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 »
Tuberculosis (TB) vaccines have been shown to reduce sustained infection rates among healthy, uninfected adolescents and in high-transmission settings, according to the results of a clinical trial published by nonprofit TB vaccine developer Aeras earlier this month.
Aeras published the results... Read More »
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) participated in a conference in Central Asia last week that focused on strengthening radiological security in Central Asia.
The focus of the conference was to identify ways to eliminate, secure, or replace the most vulnerable radioactive sources in central... Read More »
Infravec2, the European Union-funded source for vector research products and services for scientists, launched new online resources in June regarding mosquito colonies that were previously unavailable and new arbovirus-infected mosquito combinations, among others.
Composed of 24 partner... Read More »
Triad National Security, LLC was awarded a $25 billion contract last month to operate the Los Alamos National Laboratory by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Consisting of Battelle, the University of California and Texas A&M University,... Read More »
Bell Boeing recently approved the conversion of the previously awarded V-22 tiltrotor aircraft contract to a fixed-price-incentive-fee multiyear contract, providing for the manufacture and delivery to armed forces divisions.
Officials said the $4,191,533,822 revision clears the way for 39... Read More »
A “smart bandage” prototype developed by researchers at Tufts University aims to monitor chronic wounds and administer treatments that aid the healing process has proven effective in lab testing.
The smart bandage was designed to actively treat skin wounds resulting from burns, diabetes and... Read More »
An oral smallpox treatment developed by SIGA Technologies, Inc. has proven effective through human safety and animal efficacy studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine this month.
Known as tecovirimat, or TPOXX, the efficacy of the oral formulation was tested in lethal monkeypox... Read More »
Guardtime Federal expanded its contract with Lockheed Martin to integrate a variety of cyber-related capabilities into Lockheed Martin aircraft products and processes.
The new contract will focus on reducing the attack surface of the information supply chain that forwards information to and... Read More »
Boeing and Embraer recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a strategic partnership to accelerate growth in global aerospace markets.
The agreement, which is non-binding, proposes a joint venture comprising the commercial aircraft and services business of Embraer and the... Read More »
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) researchers are providing care to Ebola patients, monitoring survivors from the 2014 outbreak and testing the experimental drug remdesivir for emergency treatment.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine has been studying Ebola... Read More »
Forensic chemists can use a new international data hub to share information on new variants of fentanyl and the chemical signatures and variants of other drug analogs with scientists from around the world to help curb the opioid epidemic.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology... Read More »
After a nine-day legal and regulatory review, a team of International Atomic Agency (IAEA) researchers has concluded that Austria is committed to nuclear and radiation safety and made recommendations for improvements.
The Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) team recommended steps to... Read More »
Defense, civil government, and cybersecurity solutions firm Raytheon is developing a 100 kW class laser weapon system for the Army, to integrate onboard the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles.
The effort stems from a $10 million Army High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstration program... Read More »
Researchers maintain more women could be losing their pregnancies to the Zika virus without knowing they are infected.
Findings of a probe by California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis investigators published in Nature Medicine determined 26 percent of non-human primates infected... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded Cyber 20/20, Inc. a contract to enhance the capabilities of existing cybersecurity tools to detect and respond to malicious cyber-security attacks on financial institutions.
Awarded under the first... Read More »
A new online tool called the Neighborhood Atlas has been launched to help researchers to view socioeconomic data on communities.
The platform, developed at the University of Wisconsin, allows researchers to rank and map neighborhoods according to income, education, employment, housing quality... Read More »
The Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has chosen the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) to help end influenza and sepsis.
M2D2 is one of eight business incubators in the nation selected to aid startups in... Read More »
