U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stationed at the Port of Nogales in Arizona recently made a seizure of 51 pounds of methamphetamine in a single traffic stop.
The incident began as a 24-year-old Tucson, Arizona, resident driving a Chevrolet Impala sedan applied for entry into... Read More »
Aerojet Rocketdyne announced Wednesday that its propulsion systems used in Raytheon’s Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missile recently supported a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led, multinational naval exercise off the coast of Scotland.
The exercise, called Formidable... Read More »
France’s Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian recently welcomed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü for a symposium in Paris commemorating the organization’s 20th anniversary.
In his opening remarks, Üzümcü... Read More »
Biologists from the University of California San Diego have made headway in new flu and anthrax treatments through two separate studies focused on bodily defense.
Experiments in both cases unveiled new mechanisms the body uses to defend itself, working their way up from fruit flies. The results... Read More »
The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency, supported by Lockheed Martin, successfully completed a series of tests of the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) 4.0.3 Aegis Combat System in the Atlantic Ocean.
The agency completed the tests as part of Formidable Shield 2017 (FS-17), a North Atlantic... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) launched Tuesday the Hidden Signals Challenge, a competition that seeks ideas for novel uses of existing data to discover emerging biothreats.
The competition offers a $300,000 prize.
“This Challenge is... Read More »
A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently said that Romania has significantly strengthened its regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety, which included the approval of a National Strategy on Nuclear Safety and Security (NSNSS).
Conducted by... Read More »
According to a recently published report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should use sound program management and oversight practices in its technology infrastructure modernization (TIM) plan to avoid repeating past... Read More »
Raytheon’s Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) defense system recently intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target at sea during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led multinational operational demonstration off the coast of Scotland.
The demonstration, called Formidable Shield 17, was... Read More »
Air passenger travel is steadily increasing, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and with an influx of passengers comes the need for more highly trained canines to protect the public and support law enforcement, experts say.
The FAA reports in an aerospace forecast that passenger... Read More »
The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is now one of 10 airports in the country to offer automated security screening lanes in an effort to cut down on passenger processing time.
The creation of four automated screening lanes in terminals A and D is a joint effort on behalf of the... Read More »
A jury in Manhattan federal court returned a guilty verdict Monday against Ahmad Khan Rahimi on all eight counts of the indictment that charged him with offenses related to his execution and attempted execution of bombings in New York City on September 17, 2016.
Rahimi faces a mandatory... Read More »
A group of House Energy and Commerce Committee members sent a letter Monday to the General Services Administration (GSA) to request information on its data security vetting for awarding government contracts.
The committee members also sent a letter recently to the Internal Revenue Service... Read More »
The Government of Nigeria recently announced the launch of a 10-day campaign aimed at immunizing 873,837 people against yellow fever in the states of Kwara and Kogi.
Beginning on Oct. 13, the effort mobilized more than 200 health workers and volunteers to immunize individuals between the ages of... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a week-long event to challenge teams from academia, industry, and the software defined radio (SDR) enthusiast community through a series of hacking sessions called the DARPA Bay Area SDR Hackfest on Nov. 17.
According to... Read More »
