Takeda Subsidiary Lands HHS Contract to Develop, Test Zika Vaccine A U.S. subsidiary of Takeda Group has received an initial $19.8 million contract from  the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and test a Zika virus vaccine over the next 18 months…

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Reports: DoD Delays Military EHR System Launch Due to Technical Problems The Defense Department will delay the launch of its electronic health records system by a few months due to technical issues identified during the testing phase, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jared Serbu writes DoD was originally set to roll out the MHS Genesis EHR system on Dec…

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NextFlex Opens New DoD-Backed Flexible Hybrid Development & Manufacturing Institute in Silicon Valley NextFlex has launched a new technology facility in Silicon Valley with the task to deliver new manufacturing technologies designed to develop and produce flexible hybrid electronics. The 34,000-square-foot Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute will include laboratory space dedicated to flexible hybrid manufacturing and Class 10,000 pilot manufacturing lines, the company said Wednesday…

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GAO: OPM Director Should Work with Agencies to Support Hiring Efforts The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Office of Personnel Management director work with agencies to aid hiring efforts and analyze the extent to which hiring authorities meet requirements and refine, eliminate or expand authorities as necessary…

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Hybrid Enterprises, Straightline Aviation, PRL Logistics Form Partnership to Bring Lockheed’s Hybrid Airships to Alaska, Canada Hybrid Enterprises has entered into a strategic partnership with PRL Logistics and Straightline Aviation to bring the Lockheed Martin-built LMH-1 heavy-lift hybrid airship to Alaska and northern Canada…

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DHS S&T Seeks on Behavior Profiling Software to Aid Search & Rescue Missions The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate is developing a software that will work to aid first responders in search and rescue operations. DHS said Thursday S&T’s first responders group has collaborated with search and rescue research company dbS Productions to build the FIND software that will help locate lost individuals through behavioral pattern statistics from approximately 150,000 past lost person cases…

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Defense News: State Dept Eyes International Joint Declaration on ‘Strike-Enabling’ UAV The State Department is working to establish a set of guidelines on the export and use of armed unmanned systems and has attempted to convince foreign allies to sign on the new rules, Defense News reported Thursday…

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NIST to Back 12 Manufacturing Partnership Centers in US, Puerto Rico The National Institute of Standards and Technology will obligate $36 million in annual  funds to 12 organizations to run Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers that will support small- and medium-sized manufacturers…

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NGA, NSF Offer 3-D Digital Elevation Models of Alaska Under ArcticDEM Project The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Science Foundation have unveiled a new batch of 3-D digital elevation models of Alaska from the ArcticDEM project that seeks to foster coordination of national efforts in the Arctic region…

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Henning Schulzrinne to Return to FCC as CTO, Senior Tech Adviser; Tom Wheeler Comments Henning Schulzrinne, who previously served as chief technology officer at the Federal Communications Commission, will return to FCC as CTO and senior adviser for technology at the agency’s office of strategic planning and policy analysis…

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Johns Hopkins APL Gets DHS Under Secretary’s Award for Datacasting Program The Department of Homeland Security has awarded the 2016 Under Secretary’s Award to a team from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s asymmetric operations sector in recognition of its work on the datacasting program for first responders…

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