The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will sponsor the advanced development of a next-generation portable ventilator to help fill the need for portable, low-cost, user-friendly and flexible ventilators in a pandemic or other public health emergency.
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) requires fixed facilities storing threshold quantities of hazardous materials self-report inventories and quantities using the EPCRA Tier II form. AristaTek is offering a new 'Tier II Analysis Service,' which is designed to help EPCRA administrators understand if their facility self-submitted data is complete and accurate, or if it contains errors and omissions which may necessitate a closer review of their submissions.
As the President has stated, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the humanitarian crisis there is a top national security priority for the United States. In order to contain and combat it, we are partnering with the United Nations and other international partners to help the Governments of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Senegal respond just as we fortify our defenses at home.
The Mobile Mass Notification System is an integrated, self-contained, ruggedized trailer that uses a telescoping/folding mast to deploy an LRAD 360 to reach a maximum height of 30 feet, which provides highly intelligible voice communications for emergency warning and mass notification with area coverage up to 5.3 kilometers.
Through the Department of Homeland Security's Transition to Practice (TTP) program, cybersecurity technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories - and at other federal labs - now stand a better chance of finding their way into the real world.
PharmAthene Inc., a biodefense company, recently announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the company a contract, valued at up to $28.1 million if all contract options are exercised, for the development of a next generation anthrax vaccine.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the U.S. Department of Justice - in partnership with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center - will launch a new series of pilot programs to bring together community representatives, public safety officials, and religious leaders to counter violent extremism.
In support of President Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan and the administration's commitment to improve national power-grid resilience, recently the U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $8 million for microgrid projects to help cities and towns better prepare for extreme weather events and other potential electricity disruptions.
Soligenix Inc. recently announced promising preliminary results from a preclinical study with its ricin toxin vaccine RiVax, in a nonhuman primate (NHP) lethal aerosol exposure model. The study demonstrated that NHPs vaccinated with RiVax were completely protected against a lethal aerosol of ricin toxin with a highly significant survival benefit.
In a move that could have huge implications for national security, researchers have created a very sensitive and tiny detector that is capable of detecting radiation from various sources at room temperature. The detector is eight to nine orders of magnitude - 100 million to as high as 1 billion - times faster than the existing technology.
