biothreat Archives

Agriculture inspection specialists with U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspect imported goods for invasive insect and plant species at the Port of Baltimore July 26, 2017. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Glenn Fawcett / Flickr)

DHS invests $3.5 million in biothreat technology program at Texas A&M

The university, through its educational outreach agency, AgriLife, was chosen to head a Center of Excellence to conduct work on solutions that reduce the risk of exposing…

Oct 9, 2018 By FedScoop Staff

Lots of people are tweeting about their illness symptoms. (Getty)

Winner of DHS’s Hidden Signals challenge uses Twitter to predict biothreats

Pandemic Pulse pulls information from the social media platform as well as several other public data sources.

Jun 7, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier