The United States Agency for International Development is launching the Emerging Pandemic Threats 2 program, which will help countries detect viruses with pandemic potential, improve laboratory capacity to support surveillance, respond in an appropriate and timely manner, strengthen response capacities, and educate at-risk populations on how to prevent exposure to pathogens.
An experimental vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease was well tolerated and produced immune system responses in all 20 healthy adults who received it in a phase-1 clinical trial conducted by researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The candidate vaccine was co-developed by the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Nancy Lindborg, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), recently testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding "Preparedness and Response to Public Health Threats: How Ready Are We?"
As this year's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Energy Action Month draw to a close, Patricia Hoffman, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, highlights several milestones from the past few months that address continued progress and commitment to strengthen the cybersecurity of the nation's energy infrastructure.
Soldiers, military scientists, and Defense Department civilians are on the ground in West Africa to help stop history's largest Ebola outbreak, and now innovators at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are turning their job of changing what is possible to the fight against infectious diseases.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) Biological Technologies Office (BTO) has created a simplified proposal process to attract and fund businesses and researchers wishing to pursue research ideas with government support. Under the EZ broad agency announcement (BAA) process scientists and engineers can now submit a two-page white paper describing their ideas.
During the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Navy Admiral Michael S. Rogers, the National Security Agency's director, and also commander of U.S. Cyber Command and chief of the Central Security Service, explained that network defense isn't an either-or proposition that can be neatly divided into public sector, private sector and national security responsibilities.
Cepheid recently announced that it has been awarded a grant of up to $3.3 million co-financed by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop Xpert® Ebola, a rapid test that could be run on Cepheid's installed base of more than 3,500 GeneXpert® Systems in developing countries.
DHS Science & Technology Directorate recently held the groundbreaking ceremony for a new explosives detection lab. Located at the William J. Hughes FAA Technical Center in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., the new building will provide approximately 13,500 square feet of extra reinforced laboratory space for conducting tests of explosives detection systems.
Federal Resources Supply Company (Federal Resources) was a proud supporter of the United States Park Police and its management of the Veterans Day HBO Concert for Valor in Washington, D.C., on 11 November 2014. Federal Resources provided detection equipment for all entry and access points to the National Mall, as well as shelters and lighting for family reunification areas.
