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Boeing and the San Francisco, California-based company Kittyhawk will collaborate to offer a unified approach to the safe operation of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Boeing officials said the company’s investment in Kittyhawk's technology would support the development of a UAS... Read More »
With the death toll from the ongoing Nipah virus outbreak in India rising to at least 17, EcoHealth Alliance officials have warned that the outbreak could become an international incident if it spreads to neighboring states.
The outbreak is centered in the Indian state of Kerala. Five nearby... Read More »
As the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) prepares to shift its F-35 program into full-rate production, a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on Tuesday recommends that Congress consider withholding funding until “key deficiencies” are addressed.
Slated for full-rate... Read More »
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has added forensic images of 14 popular drone models to its Computer Forensic Reference Datasets (CFReDS) to assist criminal investigations involving drones, the agency announced on Tuesday.
Forensic images consist of a complete data... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) selected the University City Science Center of Philadelphia as one of eight accelerators to drive innovation in medical technologies.
Accelerators look for innovative technologies and products that can be developed to solve healthcare... Read More »
Traces of Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus have been found in ticks embedded in birds migrating from Africa to Europe, providing new insights about how the virus spreads to new regions, according to a recent study led by researchers at Uppsala University.
First identified in Saudi Arabia in the... Read More »
Recently released study findings are lending new insight concerning the dengue virus impact in Ethiopia.
Dengue is a mosquito-borne RNA virus representing one of the most serious and rapidly spreading arboviral diseases in the world.
Details published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases... Read More »
The RAND Corporation has been selected to oversee a five-year effort supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) to use data to better understand gun violence patterns and to find solutions.
LJAF has pledged $20 million to the collaborative effort, called the National Collaborative... Read More »
Information technology and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (Booz Allen) has been awarded a spot on the Program and Systems Support (PASS) professional services contract by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Corporate Business Office (CBO), the company announced on Tuesday.
Valued... Read More »
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) presented and joined statements reflecting various aspects of its priorities at the 71st World Health Assembly in Geneva last week.
In one statement, IDSA expressed its support for recommendations on the global strategy and plan of action on... Read More »
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security recently developed a framework to help identify microorganisms that are most likely to cause a global pandemic to inform future preparedness and response efforts.
The report from the researchers, "The Characteristics of Pandemic... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to host an informational event on June 13 for those interested in participating in a new program that seeks to temporarily leverage the human body’s natural genetic responses to counter biological, chemical, and radiological threats.... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently announced that it awarded $2.94 million across 20 competitive research contracts to 19 small businesses in 10 states.
Each of the Phase I awardees will... Read More »
A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) review has found that most states meet performance standards for infectious disease threats related to safety and coordination of first responders, but states reported mixed results regarding electronic lab reporting, epidemiology capacity, and... Read More »
A team of USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers recently announced the development of a new prototype for a portable instrument capable of early-stage malaria detection.
Details of the portable optical diagnostics system (PODS) prototype featured in ACS Sensors outline the process of... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced the launch of new technology, the Autonomic Intelligent Cyber Sensor (AICS), through its Transition to Practice (TTP) Program.
This is the 20th technology that has been developed and commercialized... Read More »
Amid a deadly outbreak of the bat-borne Nipah virus in India that has already killed 10 people, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) said on Thursday it will provide up to $25 million to Profectus BioSciences Inc. and Emergent BioSolutions Inc. for the development and... Read More »
Results of a recent survey examined the thoughts of Americans concerning the potential impact infectious and emerging diseases facing other countries will have in the United States.
The effort, commissioned by Research!America and the American Society for Microbiology, showed 95 percent of... Read More »
Scientists at Harvard Medical School have discovered that antibodies made in response to a vaccine for one hemorrhagic fever virus -- Junin -- can also disarm another virus, Machupo.
This breakthrough is significant because it sets the stage for the design of vaccines that can work against... Read More »
People around the world are becoming more resistant to antifungal treatments, and according to researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Exeter, the end result could be increased outbreaks of disease and food shortages.
Improvements must be made to how existing drugs are... Read More »
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is calling on students and young professionals from around the world to offer new ideas regarding communication around nuclear and radiological emergencies.
Calling the effort the “Young Innovative Communicators Competition,” participants must... Read More »
An Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) reported Wednesday that it determined chlorine was likely used as a chemical weapon in Saraqib, Idlib Governorate, Syrian Arab Republic, on Feb. 4.
The FFM concluded that chlorine was released from... Read More »
Researchers maintain there is a link between a person's olfactory makeup and the ability to detect if they have contracted malaria.
The work of ETH Zurich investigators published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences detailed the process of examining volatile chemicals released from... Read More »
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently used computer modeling to map the process by which the Ebola and Zika viruses infiltrate host cells.
The researchers, who published their work in the journal Biomolecules, aimed to understand the specific structure-function... Read More »
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) officials said the agency is working to develop initiatives designed to address potential threats posed by drones.
While drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), possess the potential to technology to... Read More »
Russia-linked cyber attacks targeted 18 state election systems, conducted malicious access attempts on six state voting-related websites, and gained access to “restricted elements of election infrastructure” in a handful of states during the 2016 elections, according to a U.S. Senate Select... Read More »
Raytheon Company officials recently dedicated new facilities at Raytheon Missile Systems as part of a large-scale expansion and modernization project to increase capacity and capability of the firm’s Tucson, Arizona, operations.
“Our expansion supports the nation's military, the security of... Read More »
Researchers recently developed a machine learning tool that can identify whether emerging strains of the bacterium Salmonella may cause dangerous bloodstream infections rather than food poisoning.
The tool speeds up the process for identifying the genetic changes that cause new invasive types of... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to conduct demonstration flights next year for full-scale technology capable of the airborne launch and recovery of multiple unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
Entering its third and final phase, DARPA’s “Gremlins” program would... Read More »
As the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared a new Ebola outbreak in the Kongo on Tuesday, researchers from the University of Kent announced their findings that mass vaccination is not a viable option to prevent or contain Ebola outbreaks.
The team of researchers concluded that... Read More »
The technology known as 3D printing could disrupt labor markets and exacerbate security threats from violent actors, a new RAND Corporation paper suggests.
To the latter point, 3D printing could benefit military adversaries, violent extremists, and even street criminals, who could produce their... Read More »
Intelleuron, LLC has garnered a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate contract to design, develop and test intelligent reconnaissance technology.
Officials said the $199,977 award involves working with small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) in support of... 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 »
