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  • Biohazards to be studied in Memphis

    The University of Tennessee at Memphis inaugurates a new Level 3 Biohazard lab to develop new vaccines and antibiotics

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  • SAIC acquires Beck Disaster Recovery

    SAIC, a government contractor with revenues last year of $10.1 billion, wants a bigger presence in disaster recovery operations; it acquires a Florida-based disaster recovery specialist, changing its name to SAIC’s Homeland Protection & Preparedness business unit

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  • Soteria chooses Sikorsky

    Soteria — a consortium bidding for a U.K. search and rescue helicopter contract — has selected the Sikorsky S-92 as its preferred mission aircraft

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  • U.K. high-tech sector worried about defense budget cuts

    Groups representing the U.K. high-tech sector say the government’s plans to cut funding for major weapons systems would cut 2 to 3 percent out of the U.K.’s engineering and skill base

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  • Aerovironment wins a $2.1 million Phase 2 contract for tiny fluttering UAV

    Aerovironment wins more money to develop its Nano Air Vehicle; the tiny, insect-size robot, flies and hovers using flapping wings like a hummingbird

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  • Orsus forms users group in the situation management market

    First meeting of users group brings together core users of Situator to share best practices, ideas for product development

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  • U.S. designates North Korea's NCG as a nuclear-proliferation violator

    NCG is a North Korean nuclear-related company in Pyongyang; today, the U.S. Department of State froze the assets of the and took other measures to isolate it from the U.S. financial and commercial systems

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  • U.S. treasury targets North Korea's missile proliferation network

    U.S. Treasury invokes Executive Order 13382 to freeze the assets of Hong Kong Electronics; since 2007, the company has transferred million so f dollars worth of missile equipment to North Korea

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  • U.S. legislators want European companies punished for aiding Iran's regime

    Republican Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) and Democratic Charles Schumer (New York) are backing legislation which calls for the U.S. government “to identify foreign companies that export sensitive technology to Iran. Those companies would not be allowed to apply for procurement contracts with the U.S. government, or renew expiring ones, unless they first terminated those exports to Iran”

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  • Smuggled cigarettes used to finance terrorism

    It costs $100,000 to produce 10 million cigarettes in China, which can reap revenues as high as $2 million in the United States; 9/11 cost al Qaeda only about $500,000 to pull off; other terrorists have noticed

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  • Drug-resistant swine flu strain killed with Tamiflu alternative

    A Danish patient came down with swine flu, but the strain proved resistant to Tamiflu, which is produced by Roche; doctors used the drug Relenza from rival GlaxoSmithKline to kill the resistant strain

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  • Clear to sell customer data

    Clear went out of business Friday; company may sell customer data to a TSA-approved provider

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  • U.K. biometrics industry signs up to new guidelines

    The new guidelines will define the level of competence needed for a particular job role or occupation, and will be used to support individual and organizational development and quality assurance

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  • LIGATT acquires Cyber Defense Systems

    LIGATT acquires CYDM, a company specializing in meeting homeland security threats abroad; CYDM describes itself as a company that realized the global war on terror has redefined the U.S. need for security protection both at home and abroad

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  • Minnesota company recalls two years of food products

    Plainview Milk Products Cooperative is recalling two years of food products — instant non-fat dried milk, whey protein, fruit stabilizers, and gums— due to possible salmonella contamination

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More headlines

  • Iran may go after US defense firms with cyber attacks, warn Pentagon, Homeland Security
  • DHS scraps $10B small business IT and software contract
  • S. Korea says DeepSeek transferred data to Chinese company without consent
  • Researchers warn about ‘Goffee’ spilling onto Russian flash drives
  • Hackers using AI-produced audio to impersonate tax preparers, IRS
  • Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump’s promised crackdown on immigration
  • Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users
  • 42.5% of Fraud Attempts Are Now AI-Driven: Financial Institutions Rushing to Strengthen Cyber Defenses
  • Homeland Security Blocked 500-Plus Ransomware Attacks Since 2021
  • 'Dark tourism' is attracting visitors to war zones and sites of atrocities in Israel and Ukraine. Why?
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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The long view

  • Are We Ready for a ‘DeepSeek for Bioweapons’?

    Anthropic’s Claude 4 is a warning sign: AI that can help build bioweapons is coming, and could be widely available soon. Steven Adler writes that we need to be prepared for the consequences: “like a freely downloadable ‘DeepSeek for bioweapons,’ available across the internet, loadable to the computer of any amateur scientist who wishes to cause mass harm. With Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 having finally triggered this level of safety risk, the clock is now ticking.”

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  • A Brief History of Federal Funding for Basic Science

    Biomedical science in the United States is at a crossroads. For 75 years, the federal government has partnered with academic institutions, fueling discoveries that have transformed medicine and saved lives. Recent moves by the Trump administration — including funding cuts and proposed changes to how research support is allocated — now threaten this legacy.

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  • Bookshelf: Preserving the U.S. Technological Republic

    The United States since its founding has always been a technological republic, one whose place in the world has been made possible and advanced by its capacity for innovation. But our present advantage cannot be taken for granted.

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  • Critical Minerals Don’t Belong in Landfills – Microwave Tech Offers a Cleaner Way to Reclaim Them from E-waste

    E-waste recycling focuses on retrieving steel, copper, aluminum, but ignores tiny specks of critical materials. Once technology becomes available to recover these tiny but valuable specks of critical materials quickly and affordably, the U.S. can transform domestic recycling and take a big step toward solving its shortage of critical materials.

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  • Microbes That Extract Rare Earth Elements Also Can Capture Carbon

    A small but mighty microbe can safely extract the rare earth and other critical elements for building everything from satellites to solar panels – and it  has another superpower: capturing carbon dioxide.

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