On July 1, 2020 Irwin Redlener, M.D. founder and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute will step down as director. He will be succeeded by the center’s current deputy director, Jeff Schlegelmilch.
The Federal government announced nearly 100 million cloth facial coverings will be sent to the aviation, transit and passenger rail transportation sectors for passenger use.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $225 million fine against Texas-based health insurance telemarketers for making approximately 1 billion illegally spoofed robocalls.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announced the creation of a task force to study and analyze best practices and procedures for recruiting, training and maintaining law enforcement officers in the state.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) are launching a 120-day pilot to help reduce the availability of unapproved opioids illegally offered for sale online.
In a Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 report filed with Congress last week, the White House says the number of cybersecurity incidents recorded at US federal agencies in 2019 went down by 8 percent.
The city of Chicago will spend up to $1.2 million to hire three private security firms to help prevent civil unrest and looting that erupted amid protests over the killing of George Floyd.
The Maritime Transportation System Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MTS-ISAC) was formed as a nonprofit by a group of U.S.-based maritime critical infrastructure stakeholders to promote cybersecurity information sharing throughout the community.
The U.S. Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California and Fort Hood, Texas were selected by DoD for their second round of 5G communications testing and experimentation.