HOMELAND DEFENSE

& Security Digest

6 FEBRUARY 2024

HDIAC collects and publishes articles related to our technical focus areas on the web to share with the DoD community.

FEATURED ARTICLE

Personal Protective Equipment, Military

One System, Varied Missions: SOCOM Community’s Collaborative Efforts Deliver a Comprehensive CBRN Protective Mask

Modern warfighters face various biological and chemical threats on the battlefield, from disease to potential manmade poisons, and they require more protective and innovative gear to keep them safe in the varied environments they encounter. When you think of a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) protective mask, most people visualize one of the currently…

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

A U.S. Marine in chemical protective clothing checks places a purple chem light on a table with other equipment.

Rendering Riot Control Agents (RCAs) as Materiel Designated as Safe (MDAS)

The Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) was asked to provide information on the processes to render select RCAs as MDAS.  Although the inquirer’s primary interests were in finding approaches outside incendiary ones, all discovered approaches were included in this report. HDIAC partnered with SciTech Services, Inc., to research this topic and generate a report on the various methods for rendering from agnostic…

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

The Clear and Present Threat of Chem-Bio and Data and Cyberscientific and Technological (CB-DCST) Tools and Techniques

Given the current global shift toward symmetrical warfare, major powers and nonstate proxies are developing radical leveling and emerging technology for use as “deterrence leveraging” in nonkinetic and kinetic engagements. Although regnant treaties and conventions are postured to govern chemical and biological weapons, novel advances in genetics, synthetic biology, and neuroscience can enable side-stepping such…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The Department of Defense (DoD) Energy and Environment Innovation Symposium

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Energy and Environment Innovation Symposium focuses on the DoD’s priority in environmental and energy issues. The Symposium will offer a variety of technical sessions and short courses, over 700 technical…

Public Health in a Migrant Crisis Tabletop Exercise

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON, COLLABORATIVE EVENT.   In 2022, there were over 100 million displaced persons globally, a number that only continues to grow. Because one region’s instability bleeds into its surrounding areas, it is all…

Voice From the Community

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Dr. Eric Jones

Lead Health Physicist/RSO/LSO, CDC

Dr. Eric Jones is the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) at the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he ensures the possession, safe use, storage, and disposal of byproduct radioactive material. He manages and administers the Radiation Safety Program activities; identifies safety problems; and ensures compliance with CDC radiation safety procedures and NRC regulatory requirements for the safe use of radioactive material. With 22 years’ experience in health physics, he also served as an RSO for the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Veterans Health Administration.

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