Coronavirus Outside China ‘Spark’ Could Become ‘Bigger Fire,’ WHO says
February 10, 2020 – In Breaking News – CNBC
World Health Organization officials are concerned about new coronavirus cases confirmed in France and the U.K. that were transmitted without any travel history...
Automatic Systems Vehicle Gates Achieve ETL Certification to UL 325
Automatic Systems, Premier Sponsor and Platinum Award Winner in the 2019 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, is pleased to announce the companies BLG7X vehicle products are now listed to UL325 Standards...
Ontario’s New License Plates: You Can’t Read Them (Learn More, Video)
February 18, 2020 – In Breaking News – NPR
Ontario's newly-designed license plates just hit a speedbump. Call it Plate-gate.
A little background: The Canadian province's new design was unveiled by the provincial government —...
DARPA Robotic Swarm Exercise Conducts Urban Raid Demo (Video)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s research branch, DARPA, which was recognized in the 2018 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, is working to train robots for war.
In December, in...
Smart Sea Glider Teams to Improve US Navy’s Ocean Predictions
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Scientists from the Ocean Sciences Division are optimizing the placement of slow-moving ocean gliders, and the glider data gathered, to improve the Navy's ability to predict ocean...
Where Do Criminals Really Get their Guns?
February 19, 2020 – In Breaking News – Fox News
Mass shootings all too routinely hit the headlines across the United States.
But what rarely makes a blip on the news cycle are the...
Apply Without Delay for DHS Fiscal Year 2020 Preparedness Grants
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Notices of Funding Opportunity for eight DHS preparedness grant programs totaling nearly $1.8 billion are now open.
The grant programs provide...
Everbridge is Helping Firms & Govts to Mitigate COVID-19 Virus Impact
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a rapidly evolving situation, spreading across the globe and infecting thousands of people in dozens of countries.
As a result, the World Health Organization...
Protecting Critical Infrastructure with Resilient PNT
With the new Executive Order on Resilient Positioning, Timing and Navigation (PNT), signed by President Donald J. Trump on February 12, 2020, the federal government sets an urgent priority on protecting...
Leveling Up Encryption for U.S. Federal Agencies
Guest Editorial by Walter Paley, VP of Communications for SafeLogic
It’s 2020, and for folks working in the cryptography niche, that means it is time to address a convergence of complications.
I don’t...