U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stationed at the Washington-Dulles International Airport in Virginia recently intercepted an Ethiopian imposter using an immigrant visa.
After arriving from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the man presented officers with a diversity immigrant visa for... Read More »
A bill that gives the children of fallen law enforcement officers, firefighters, and EMS workers the maximum Pell grant authorized by federal law was recently advanced by the U.S. Senate.
The legislation, titled the Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship Act, was introduced by U.S. Sens. Bob... Read More »
Soligenix Inc. announced this week it is the recipient of $700,000 in funding to support a research project grant for the University of Hawai’i at Manoa aimed at developing a thermostabilized Ebola vaccine.
Soligenix, a biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes products which... Read More »
A Lockheed Martin PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor recently successfully intercepted a missile to complete the first ever test of an MSE from a remote launcher.
The U.S. Army-led missile defense flight test took place at the Reagan Test Site at the Kwajalein Atoll in the... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) to identify new technological components to aid its Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program in detecting and neutralizing small unmanned air system (sUAS) technologies.
Rather than end-to-end... Read More »
Raytheon’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) recently demonstrated its ability to acquire and track multiple threat-representative targets simultaneously during its third dedicated flight test held at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.
"The speed, range,... Read More »
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in tandem with the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation’s NTP Radioisotopes SOC Ltd (NTP), recently completed conversion of its molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) production process from highly-enriched uranium (HEU), which is frequently used for... Read More »
Three-quarters of mainland U.S. counties are now environmentally suitable for disease-transmitting mosquitoes, according to an update of models by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Two mosquito species--aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus--can survive for at least part of the... Read More »
Police in Bristol, England recently used chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) response training simulators from Argon Electronics for a hazardous material (HazMat) training exercise.
The exercise required participants to provide security for a half-marathon event. While the... Read More »
A recent study by a Northeastern University associate research scientist found that increased time spent outdoors correlated to a higher risk for Zika infection.
The researcher, Marco Ajelli, surveyed residents of the Miami-Dade area and found that while the majority of people spent less than... Read More »
A five-year, $171 million contract was recently awarded to Emergent BioSolutions by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to supply the company’s Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion kit (RSDL), which protects human skin from chemical warfare agents and the T-2 toxin, for use by all branches of... Read More »
A roundtable discussion on the current landscape of biological risks posed by technology advancement in the fourth industrial revolution was recently hosted in New York City by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
While the first industrial revolution centered... Read More »
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in tandem with the Institute for Nuclear Physics (INP) of Almaty, Kazakhstan recently announced that the last remaining stores of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) have been repatriated from the institute’s VVR-K reactor.
In total, more than... Read More »
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently announced that it will be enhancing security measures for the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport (LBE) in Latrobe, Pennsylvania as part of a larger strategy by the agency to better secure airline passengers throughout the country.
Originally... Read More »
Experts from the Oregon State University, the Oregon Health and Science University’s College of Pharmacy and the Oregon Health Authority say that communication breakdowns are among the leading potentials for infection outbreaks of drug-resistant bacteria.
Supported by a slew of organizations,... Read More »
