Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and state forensic lab researchers in Maryland and Vermont have developed a new technique designed to improve drug evidence testing safety.
Lab researchers have demonstrated a process allowing police to test whether a baggie or other package... Read More »
A Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security report commissioned by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) released this week showed the foundations for responding to a high-impact respiratory pathogen pandemic could use some work the world over.
A high-impact respiratory pathogen... Read More »
U.S.-based white supremacists have dramatically increased their coordination and information sharing which has led to a spike in right-wing extremist violence in the United States and Europe over the past decade, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League and five European organizations.... Read More »
Opioid vaccines hold the potential to counteract the plague of opioid-affiliated deaths that have swept the United States in recent years, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
While clinical trials have begun, numerous barriers remain to use.
The matter of what exactly is... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) through the U.S. Air Force Space Command recently awarded Iridium Communications a $738.5 million, seven-year, fixed-price contract to provide the agency with unlimited satellite services from its unique Low Earth Orbit constellation.
Iridium will provide... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will add five accelerators to its network to enhance biotechnology innovates with technical and entrepreneurial support.
The new accelerators include Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; the Plug and Play Tech... Read More »
Raytheon Company officials said the defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions firm is developing a new medium-range, air-launched weapon to combat drones, manned aircraft, and cruise missiles.
The Peregrine missile is half the size and cost of current air-to-air missiles while... Read More »
The Government Accountability Office recommends two agencies be more transparent about technology’s capabilities.
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are agencies that research, develop, and test... Read More »
Joined to fight the threat of malaria, the governments of Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi have launched a landmark vaccine pilot program known as RTS,S.
Malaria is estimated to kill a child every two minutes and is a leading killer of children in Kenya. As such, a major goal of the new vaccine is its... Read More »
The U.S. Navy is working on adding 20 new guided missile frigates to its fleet, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended they provide Congress with an independent cost estimate before awarding any contracts.
Currently, the cost is estimated at around $20 billion. GAO... Read More »
A new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal concluded that Ebola patients might face an increased risk of death for an entire year after being released from the hospital.
Conducted on 1,130 members of the Guinean populace that survived the 2013-2016 West African Ebola... Read More »
Under threat from its worst recorded outbreak of dengue since 2000, Bangladesh has turned to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organization (WHO) to help outline a plan to test a nuclear technique to combat mosquitoes spreading the disease.
More than 38,000 have been... Read More »
A cyber threats report generated by the computer security software firm McAfee determined ransomware attacks grew by 118 percent in the first quarter of this year.
The McAfee Labs Threats Report also revealed the detection of new ransomware families and the implementation of innovative attack... Read More »
Raytheon has secured a $190 million low-rate Navy contract to produce ESSM (Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles) Block 2 units featuring a guidance system with dual mode active and semi-active radar.
“ESSM plays a critical role in protecting Navy sailors worldwide and our international partners share... Read More »
Human behavior lies at the heart of fighting mosquito-transmitted diseases, according to a new study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
How humans commute and what their living habits are is key in mosquito mitigation planning, the report says, because, without such considerations,... Read More »
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials said the agency is using artificial intelligence (AI) to address the opioid epidemic, one of the nation’s leading health challenges.
The recent DIA DoDIIS Worldwide Conference in Florida served as the backdrop for Brian Drake, the DIA’s Science and... Read More »
Researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney in Australia have created and tested a new vaccine type that provides substantial protection against tuberculosis (TB), following more than five years of work and research.
The test was a preclinical run using mouse models... Read More »
Defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions firm Raytheon has committed to building a 200,000-square-foot facility supporting new high-tech jobs at its Space and Airborne Systems headquarters in McKinney, Texas.
Once the construction project is completed in late 2020, the facility will... Read More »
A genomics study undertaken by Scripps Research recently uncovered a previously undiscovered and underreported outbreak of the Zika virus that hit Cuba in 2017, prompting scientists to call on health, academia, and government organizations to step up efforts to share and coordinate... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has earmarked $23 million to support the manufacturing of an investigational Ebola vaccine as a means of addressing the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) virus outbreak.
The effort will also meet domestic biodefense goals. The HHS... Read More »
A growing lack of vaccination among Texas youth is leaving schools and the cities that house them increasingly at risk to measles outbreaks, according to new findings published by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
The findings were published in the journal JAMA... Read More »
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has contracted with a firm to aid a burn imaging device’s development.
The two-year, $27.3 million contract with SpectralMD, Inc., of Dallas, Texas, advances the... Read More »
Officials are touting the results of the first system-level tests of SPY-6(V)2, the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) at the Surface Combat System Center at Wallops Island, Va.
“Moving quickly from radar installation at Wallops Island to tracks on glass in less than three months is a... Read More »
A new antibiotic workaround for drug-resistant infections is the focus of a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense and VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
“Developing new antibiotics that represent an improvement over standard of care... Read More »
The United States has finally cleared a medical product known as Silverlon for use in treating mustard gas-induced blisters, marking a first for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Mustard gas -- or sulfur mustard -- saw its most first and most devastating widespread use in World War I, but... Read More »
The danger of malaria is growing worldwide, according to Dr. Mark Travassos, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and that demands greater access for those with serious cases to intravenously-administered (IV) drugs.
At present, access to... Read More »
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Public Safety Communications Research division (PSCR) and the Western Fire Chiefs Association have partnered to bring data analytics to firefighters nationwide.
Fire departments traditionally use one-way systems to maintain incident records,... Read More »
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued the Army three recommendations regarding how forces will engage jointly with other services in multiple domains - specifically cyber and space.
The GAO said the analysis and subsequent recommendations stem from the House Armed Services... Read More »
As various bacteria continue to evolve and resist current vaccine treatments, West Virginia University (WVU) researcher Mariette Barbier is working to preserve vaccine effectiveness against pertussis or whooping cough.
Her efforts have been awarded $2.6 million from the National Institutes of... Read More »
The National Science Foundation recently awarded the University of Rochester a $1.5 million grant quantum computing research.
Researchers will use the funding to investigate the challenges of working with and stabilizing quantum particles, called qubits. The university also will use the funds to... Read More »
A recently published The Lancet Infectious Diseases article detailed the identification of new markers aiding the effort to expedite the timeframe of Yellow Fever detection.
“Many patients admitted to the health services with a diagnosis of yellow fever aren't initially severely ill,” Esper... Read More »
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that certain molecules can boost the efficacy of antibiotics in fighting Staph infections and powering through antibiotic resistance.
The molecules are known as rhamnolipids, and their targets are staphylococcus aureus bacteria --... Read More »
Lockheed Martin has developed a tool that standardizes how to measure the cyber resiliency maturity of a weapon, mission, or training system anywhere in its lifecycle.
Lockheed Martin’s Cyber Resiliency Level (CRL) model provides increased visibility into the current state of risk. It produces... Read More »
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) study findings revealed the RTS,S malaria vaccine could bolster protective antibodies production upon subsequent parasite infection.
The work involved the authors investigating how vaccination impacts natural immunity to the parasite upon... Read More »
Smallpox, eradicated globally in 1980, is on the cusp of a comeback thanks to advances in synthetic biology. Residual immunity in individuals who were previously vaccinated could mitigate the impact of a smallpox outbreak, but “a high degree of uncertainty” exists regarding the duration and... Read More »
