An outbreak of yellow fever is ravaging Brazil, driven by mosquitoes that are now reaching popular tourist destinations typically removed from such outbreaks, and prompting a warning call from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC warns that travelers should be... Read More »
KBR, Inc. announced Monday that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) awarded its global Government Services business, KBRwyle, a $34.1 million task order to provide analytical and engineering weapons systems support to assist with air traffic safety and cyber threats.
KBRwyle will support the USAF's Life... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Laredo Port of Entry implemented several new measures to prepare for increased travel during the week before Easter.
CBP introduced a designated lane, electronic tourist permits, expanded processing hours and a satellite, off-site tourist... Read More »
As the spring tourism season looms, members of Washington State’s congressional delegation called on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Monday to deploy five temporary passenger screening canine teams to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac).
In a letter to TSA... Read More »
In response to reports that Cambridge Analytica exploited the private information of more than 50 million Facebook users during the 2016 presidential campaign, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called for an official investigation by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.
Feinstein,... Read More »
A trio of lawmakers recently requested funds for the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, which provides cybersecurity network enhancement.
Reps. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), Jim Langevin (D-RI), and Will Hurd (R-TX) recently forwarded correspondence... Read More »
Cooperation between international law enforcement agencies has led to the downfall of an encrypted network the FBI says was used by drug traffickers and criminal organization leaders for secure communications.
Phantom Secure was, until recently, a Canada-based service that bought and stripped... Read More »
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW) of Qatar recently held a chemical safety and security seminar in Doha, Qatar, for OPCW Member States in the Asian Region.
Fifty-three participants from government, the... Read More »
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a new program that aims to develop high-resolution neural interfaces for use by able-bodied service members.
DARPA has been involved in research and development of in-brain communication systems that use invasive techniques to... Read More »
Federal penalties for distributing fentanyl would be stepped up to curb the nationwide opioid epidemic under a forthcoming bill that was previewed on Friday by U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AK) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
Under the bill, lower amounts of fentanyl would be required to trigger... Read More »
Amid reports that the U.S. State Department has not designated $120 million in funds appropriated by Congress to counter disinformation and propaganda from foreign governments, a group of six bipartisan senators pushed for an explanation on Friday.
The lawmakers also wrote they are “gravely... Read More »
A pair of clinical trials sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) will test an experimental vaccine to prevent influenza caused by an H7N9 influenza virus.
Officials said the Phase 2 studies would test different dosages of the inactivated influenza vaccine... Read More »
A study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases highlighted a 50 percent lower mortality rate in patients with drug-resistant infections who see infectious diseases (ID) specialists compared with those who do not.
The study was single-center and retrospective, focusing on records from 2006... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a new program that seeks to develop software that would help decision-makers better understand gray-zone action, subtle conflicts that fall somewhere between peace and conventional warfare.
This gray zone conflict is not... Read More »
A recent statement from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes the progress the U.S. Border Patrol has made and the challenges it has faced in securing the Southwest Border.
The statement addresses DHS efforts to deploy and measure the effectiveness of surveillance technologies.... Read More »
