U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader; Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader; and Morgan Griffith (R-VA) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader, have asked information on breakthrough cases of... Read More »
A pair of lawmakers have introduced a bill they said requires critical infrastructure owners and operators to report cyber attacks to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Officials said the Cyber Incident Reporting Act, presented by Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob... Read More »
Reckoning with the dangers of further viruses like SARS-CoV-2, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) this week awarded approximately $36.3 million to three academic institutions to help research into vaccines for coronaviruses and their variants.
The end goal is to... Read More »
With a pair of new bills this week, United States Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) sought to improve the federal government’s capabilities to investigate the origins of diseases and respond accordingly, as well as to guarantee analysis and action from its intelligence community.
“Knowledge is power... Read More »
A Federal Way, Wash.-based firm has secured two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Screening at Speed Program contracts to develop a passenger self-screening solution.
Micro-X, Inc., would receive $1,311,682 to design a screening solution utilizing the... Read More »
Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman personnel are touting the successful completion of the first flight test of a scramjet-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC).
The companies are slated to produce a prototype to the Department of Defense for the Defense... Read More »
Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman personnel are touting the successful completion of the first flight test of a scramjet-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC).
Authorities indicated the firm's are slated to produce a prototype to the Department of Defense for the... Read More »
On Friday, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) announced Washington state would receive more than $15 million in U.S. Department of Defense funds for infrastructure projects at Naval Base Kitsap and the Port of Everett.
Murray, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee who also serves on... Read More »
In a letter dispatched to Congress this week, 24 stakeholder organizations urged Congressional leaders to back the $16 billion funding level for pandemic preparedness advanced by the House Energy and Commerce Committee earlier this year.
That funding was attached as part of the Build Back Better... Read More »
Earlier this month, the Nuclear Threat Initiative gathered 100 international experts on biosafety for the 2021 Virtual Global Biosecurity Dialogue (GBD), the latest in an annual series of discussions on how best to maintain attention on and advance biosecurity across the world.
COVID-19 loomed... Read More »
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said the agency has earmarked grant funding totaling $20 million to address domestic violent extremism and terrorism prevention.
Officials indicated the 37 grant awards would be allocated via the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) Targeted Violence and... Read More »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) remains without permanent leadership during the nation’s ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It's of top concern that President Biden still has not nominated someone to serve as permanent FDA commissioner,” a House Energy and Commerce... Read More »
Legislation reclassifying 9-1-1 dispatchers from Office and Administrative Support to Protective Service Occupations was approved last week by the U.S. House of Representatives as an amendment in the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), according to lawmakers.
U.S. Reps.... Read More »
Lawmakers are touting the benefits of the U.S. House of Representatives recently advancing the Oversight of Munitions Exports amendment in conjunction with the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
U.S. Reps. Norma J. Torres (D-CA) and Katie Porter (D-CA) said the measure... Read More »
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 last week with a number of homeland security-related amendments, including measures that would strengthen the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Department of Homeland... Read More »