Source: United States Navy
To build new research partnerships and strengthen existing ones, the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program—located at the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—recently hosted its Naval Opportunity Awareness Workshop (OAW).
Source: United States Navy
A 10-month master’s degree program that offers Naval Sea System Command (NAVSEA) warfare center employees a better U.S. Navy operational perspective is being offered by NAVSEA at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, Rhode Island.
Source: United States Department of Justice 2
St. Jude Medical Inc. (St. Jude) has agreed to pay $27 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that, between November 2014 and October 2016, it knowingly sold defective heart devices to health care facilities that, in turn, implanted the devices into patients insured by federal health care programs. St. Jude was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in January 2017.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Medical device manufacturers Alere Inc. and Alere San Diego Inc. (collectively, Alere) have agreed to pay $38.75 million to resolve allegations that the companies violated the False Claims Act by billing, and causing others to bill, the Medicare program for defective rapid point-of-care testing devices.
Source: United States Department of Justice
The Justice Department announced today that the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is releasing $7.65 million in a competitive microgrant grant solicitation that will fund body-worn cameras (BWCs) to any law enforcement department with 50 or fewer full-time sworn personnel, rural agencies (those agencies within non-urban or non-metro counties); and federally-recognized Tribal agencies.