The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) at 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 11.
The WEA portion of the test will be sent only... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced this week that funding opportunities are available for research and development into 10 new first responder technology areas.
To that end, the agency is seeking documents from industry, academia,... Read More »
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) a series of recommendations
regarding modernizing its supply chain and preparing for future public health emergencies.
The GAO indicated its study stemmed from the VA encountering issues acquiring... Read More »
With acts of domestic terrorism occurring with increasing regularity in the United States, the Biden administration signaled an effort to counter such attacks with the release of the country’s first National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
The federal government has provided the... Read More »
A new antibody testing study conducted by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program has just altered the timeline for SARS-CoV-2 growth in the United States, revealing the viral cause of COVID-19 may have been in-country nearly a month earlier than established.
Until... Read More »
Better monitoring of safety measures taken to prevent the spread of infectious diseases by the Transportation Security Administration could prevent the spread of infectious diseases, a new report by the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) said.
According to the GAO, while the TSA... Read More »
The U.S. Navy recently awarded a $90.2 million contract to BAE Systems to maintain and modernize the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego.
“The upcoming USS San Diego project is a major event in the service life of the ship, expanding its capability to execute a wide range of naval missions... Read More »
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders said the body chartered the Alliance’s course over the next decade in the wake of concluding the recent NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
“To do more, Allies agreed that we need to invest more together in NATO,” Secretary General Jens... Read More »
With $2.38 million in grant support from a new contract with the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and a National Institute of General Medical Sciences supplement, LSU Health New Orleans intends to form partnerships to sequence SARS-CoV-2 variants.
A team led by Dr. Lucio Miele, professor and... Read More »
In an effort to create and support a community-based vaccination workforce in underserved communities, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $125 million in workforce grants this week to 14 nonprofit private or public organizations.
All funds derive from the American... Read More »
Proposed congressional legislation would overhaul the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), expand domestic manufacturing of medical supplies and improve America’s preparedness for public health emergencies.
U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) on June 8 unveiled the... Read More »
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti toured Thursday the Los Angeles Cyber Lab to receive a briefing on its operational capabilities.
The lab, funded by public-private partnerships, was established in 2017 by the Mayor’s office to better... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently outlined the plan for allocating border barrier funds ending wall expansion to the extent permitted by law.
The prior administration sought to spend over $15 billion on wall construction, diverting more than $10 billion of those funds from... Read More »
U.S. Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Mo Brooks (R-AL) recently forwarded correspondence to the House Appropriations Committee requesting full funding for missile defense programs in the Fiscal Year 2022 budget.
The representatives sent a letter to House Appropriations Chair Betty McCollum (D-MN)... Read More »
The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee -- U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH) -- wrote to the Biden administration this week to urge efforts to counter mounting ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure.
In the... Read More »
