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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 »
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 »
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 »
Lockheed Martin plans to bring a new manufacturing facility online later this month in Pinellas Park, Florida, that will assemble canopies and bulkheads for the F-35 Lightning II program, the company announced at a formal opening on Monday.
The new facility boasts 65,000 square feet of... Read More »
Relief units and firefighters, police, rescue services and disaster management emergency physicians are all too familiar with the process of caring for patients who have become ill, or were injured by contact with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) agents, according to the German... Read More »
Until now, a deadly effect of certain chemical weapons has been unstoppable seizures that can lead to death or brain damage, but a partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Proniras Corporation seeks to develop a drug treatment to end those effects.
HHS’... Read More »
Bipartisan members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released a discussion draft on Thursday aimed at improving the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond to deliberate bioterrorist attacks or naturally occurring pandemics in the United States.
The draft... Read More »
A new paper from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) provided recommendations for mitigating risks related to separated plutonium.
As compared to highly enriched uranium (HEU), separated plutonium has not received enough attention as a security risk, NTI Counselor John Carlson said in the... Read More »
Leadership from the Alliance for Biosecurity urged Congressional lawmakers at a hearing on Thursday to increase funding for programs to protect Americans from biological and chemical threats.
Speaking before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and... Read More »
BAE Systems and Dell EMC announced Monday a collaboration to offer a scalable, hybrid cloud solution for the U.S. government.
“Our federated secure cloud is not just a modified commercial cloud environment for government use,” Al Whitmore, president of BAE Systems’ Intelligence & Security... Read More »
Approximately 1,000 cyber experts from nearly 30 nations are participating this week in Locked Shields, the largest international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), which is based... Read More »
The technology firm Engility secured three sole-source awards with the nation’s intelligence community during the first quarter of 2018, totaling $76 million.
“Sole-source awards, especially with customers conducting some of the most critical work in the nation, attest to the one-of-a-kind,... Read More »
Chlorinated lipids may be the answer to quickly testing and treating individuals who may have been exposed to chlorine gas, a Saint Louis University professor recently said.
Quickly determining which chemical agent was used is allows medical personnel to take appropriate countermeasures to save... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security is touting the benefits of small satellites used to help search and rescue teams locate emergency beacons in remote areas, such as the Arctic.
Officials said the Raytheon Company crafted two Polar Scout devices, with smallsats apertures and sensors capable of... Read More »
U.S. agencies need a more predictable and accessible source of funds to support a rapid response to public health emergencies, including outbreaks of disease and bioterror attacks, U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) said Wednesday.
Cole addressed a panel of government officials testifying at a House... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded this week $189,863 to a London startup for efforts to improve the international passenger screening process.
The funds were pulled from the S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP), which... Read More »
A new report, Breaking Through, released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine last week seeks to address the future of biomedical research with a list of improvement recommendations for essentially all levels of involvement.
Congress, the National Institutes of Health... Read More »
The University of Virginia’s cybersecurity team topped 234 schools from around the nation to win the 2018 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC).
The challenge - underwritten by Raytheon, a technology and innovation firm specializing in defense, civil government and... Read More »
Emergent BioSolutions has constructed a new trench from where the Gaithersburg, Md.-based global life sciences company will launch the world’s next line of defense against emerging viral diseases: mobile manufacturing units that can produce hyperimmune therapeutics for known and emerging... Read More »
Researchers based at Georgetown University Medical Center recently developed an online tool to enter a mix of local conditions and political constraints in their region to determine how control measures have been integrated.
The app, which was made possible by support from the Bill & Melinda... Read More »
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) announced recently several leadership changes within the organization.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen and Nathalie Tocci, director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Italy, joined the organization's Board of... Read More »
The 14th annual Heads of National Central Bureaus (NCBs) Conference held this week focused on the role NCBs play in supporting technological and strategic innovation in law enforcement.
Attending the three-day meeting, 295 senior police officials from 145 countries explored the theme “NCBs:... Read More »
A mobile, laptop-based intelligence program created by the Raytheon Company has become the focus of the U.S. Army, in an effort to give soldiers greater battlefield information collection and access.
The program is commercially available currently, but the Army wishes to see the FoXTEN system... Read More »
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in a press release Wednesday that it is “deeply alarmed” by reports of suspected toxic chemical attacks in Douma city in East Ghouta, Syria.
An estimated 500 patients presented to health facilities showing signs and symptoms consistent with... Read More »
After 20 years, scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute have identified how a surface protein of malaria -- TRAP -- interacts with proteins on the surface of human cells, offering a new vaccine target.
The human surface protein in question is a receptor known as an integrin. In their... Read More »
INTERPOL and Frontex held a meeting recently to support efforts to expand their respective Dial-Doc and Quick Check Cards programs, which are designed to improve travel document checks at border points and fight travel document fraud.
The meeting was the first meeting of the working group and... Read More »
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, launched Wednesday a two-month promotional tour of Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru to raise awareness of the Black Hawk’s aerial firefighting capabilities.
Many of the Black Hawk helicopters delivered to the region’s militaries and... Read More »
The Army’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) was recently touted as a key component in delivering command and control, troop transport, mortar, medical evacuation, and medical treatment to the battlefield.
Under the Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) formation, officials said the AMPV,... Read More »
Focused on the growing threat of antimicrobial drug resistance among their targets, infection specialists have joined researchers from India and France in an antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) program meant to limit use of antimicrobial drug therapies in hospitals.
Currently, there exists no... Read More »
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a Cyber Brief this week on cybersecurity issues related to space activities as part of its Digital and Cyberspace Policy program.
“New government actors, companies, goals, and technologies are expanding and transforming space activities,” the... Read More »
MITRE, a public interest research and development company, recently announced that it is seeking commercial cybersecurity vendors to participate in an evaluation of endpoint detection and response (EDR) products based on MITRE’s ATT&CK knowledge base.
ATT&CK is a globally accessible knowledge... Read More »
FLIR Systems, Inc. recently announced that DJI would integrate FLIR thermal imaging sensor technology into its new DJI Zenmuse XT2 drone camera and join the ‘Thermal by FLIR’ partner program, which aims to support thermal innovation.
“The arrival of the DJI Zenmuse XT2 with a FLIR sensor... Read More »
