Buckingham Town Council

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Merck | December 22, 2021

Merck , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics today announced that the United Kingdom Government will purchase an additional 1.75 million patient courses of molnupiravir (MK-4482), an investigational oral antiviral COVID-19 medicine. In the U.K., LAGEVRIO® is the planned trademark for molnupiravir; the trademark for molnupiravir in other countries has not been approved. With this additional procurement agreement, which follows a previously announced...

DARPA | February 04, 2020

US military research agency DARPA plans to launch an open source initiative to help secure upcoming 5G networks. OPS-5G aims to lead to the development of a portable standards-compliant network stack for 5G mobile that is open source and secure by design. The "long-term objective is a US-friendly ecosystem" featuring a trillion networked devices, a broad agency announcement for the four-year project states....

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Qualcomm | November 17, 2020

The U.S. government has at long last backed off on Chinese cell phone producer, Huawei. The nation has permitted American chipset producer Qualcomm to sell 4G cell phone chips to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. This is the primary exclusion made by the US government since the expanding pressures between the two nations. The American government had trained all chipset makers to quit sourcing items to the Chinese organization since Septemeber. The spokes person from Qualcomm did not spe...

Huawei | April 06, 2020

The presidents of the National Defense Industrial Association and the Professional Services Council cited a need to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in asking key lawmakers to delay the effective date of provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 pertaining to use of equipment and services from Huawei, ZTE and their subsidiaries....