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  • Affinium wins $4.8 DTRA contract to fight tularemia

    Company will begin preclinical development using an existing portfolio of fatty biosysnthesis inhibitors; end goal is an oral tularemia therapeutic; effort builds on previous work for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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  • SAIC wins $53 million deal to move WMD models on-line

    Integrated Weapons of Mass Destruction Toolset has been in development since 2004; moving on-line critical to dispersing data to first responders; physics-based models assess terrain, wind patterns, and other factors

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  • Low morale plagues DHS agriculture workers

    Merger into Customs and Border Protection a major source of problems; agriculturalists see mission overshadowed by other CBP priorities; DHS says problems were expected

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  • AWWA and ASCE publish draft water safety regulations

    Third phase of voluntary standards covers physical security at water and wastewater industries; grant program funded by EPA; interested parties have until June to comment

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  • Michigan professor offers polymerase assay for fifty pathogens

    Portable, polymerase-based, hand-held device relies on a DNA biochip; flexibility a major selling point; field testing to be done by university spin-off AquaBioChip

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  • Multiple approaches needed to fight E. Coli, say Illinois scientists

    No single approach consistently meets FDA requirements; combining technologies ensures swift pathogen death; ultrasound, electrolyzed water, and irradiation among studied methods

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  • Battelle wins $500 million contract to manage new Ft. Detrick lab

    National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center currently under construction; company receives base contract award of $250 million over five years, plus options; Battelle a major player in the lab management game

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  • HHS cancels Vaxgen's anthrax contract

    $877 million project a near total loss; VaxGen claims to be well-capitalized to weather the storm; with an IPO coming, Emergent looks better than ever

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  • Dayton positions itself as a sensor center

    Ohio’s Third Frontier Commission awards $28 million for the development of a sensor technology research center; business partners include Woolpert, General Dynamics, UES, YSI, and L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics

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  • PAR and Carrier agree on truck monitoring terms

    PAR expands its North American presence with a deal to link-up with Carrier’s refrigerated trucks

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  • Vortex takes its water purification business across the pond

    Norway-based Cool Chili buys the exclusive rights to Vortex’s patented UltraviOzone technology; system catalyzes ozone with ultraviolet light before infusing the water with pure oxygen; DHS funds the technology hoping to develop improved water safety regimes

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  • Researchers find microinjection efficient at delivering anthrax vaccine

    Compared with intramuscular delivery, microneedles are just as effective but require less vaccine; results an important step forward in developing and maintaining a working stockpile

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  • TFAH cites major problems with state pandemic planning

    Shortages of hospital beds and nurses top the list; flu vaccination rates decline in thirteen states, as does public health spending; Trust for America’s Health offers recommendations for improved preparedness

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  • Researchers locate anthrax's Achilles' heal

    Bacteria a master at using siderophores to extract iron from human hosts; researchers identify stealth protein that ovecomes human defenses; discovery could lead to improved drugs and testing

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  • Frost and Sullivan offers report on WMD detection market

    Business is booming, particularly in the federal sector; some end users, however, are shying away from the sometimes unreliable technology; research firm suggests industry needs better PR

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More headlines

  • Federal personnel are facing threats during hurricane response, DHS chief warns
  • US wastewater tests show bird flu virus limited to areas with farm animals
  • Is the nation’s water supply safe from attack?
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  • Homeland Security and HHS Release Interactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Toolkit
  • France to vaccinate millions of ducks against bird flu
  • Cyberattack Disrupts Hospitals, Health Care in Several States
  • Human race could be wiped out with virus more deadly than Covid, professor warns
  • COVID-19 sliced away freedom in the United States
  • New Data Quantifies Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Providers
  • 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

  • What We’ve Learned from Survivors of the Atomic Bombs

    Q&A with Dr. Preetha Rajaraman, New Vice Chair for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

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  • Combatting the Measles Threat Means Examining the Reasons for Declining Vaccination Rates

    Measles was supposedly eradicated in Canada more than a quarter century ago. But today, measles is surging. The cause of this resurgence is declining vaccination rates.

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  • Social Networks Are Not Effective at Mobilizing Vaccination Uptake

    The persuasive power of social networks is immense, but not limitless. Vaccine preferences, based on the COVID experience in the United States, proved quite insensitive to persuasion, even through friendship networks.

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  • Vaccine Integrity Project Says New FDA Rules on COVID-19 Vaccines Show Lack of Consensus, Clarity

    Sidestepping both the FDA’s own Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), two Trump-appointed FDA leaders penned an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine to announce new, more restrictive, COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Critics say that not seeking broad input into the new policy, which would help FDA to understand its implications, feasibility, and the potential for unintended consequences, amounts to policy by proclamation.

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  • 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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  • “Tulsi Gabbard as US Intelligence Chief Would Undermine Efforts Against the Spread of Chemical and Biological Weapons”: Expert

    The Senate, along party lines, last week confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National intelligence. One expert on biological and chemical weapons says that Gabbard’s “longstanding history of parroting Russian propaganda talking points, unfounded claims about Syria’s use of chemical weapons, and conspiracy theories all in efforts to undermine the quality of the community she now leads” make her confirmation a “national security malpractice.”

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