Homeland Defense & Security Digest

15 AUGUST 2023

Featured Technical Inquiry

Firearms Training Software/Hardware for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Employees

Providing U.S. government training staff with powerful tools to efficiently analyze interpretable data and synthesize training solutions could be a bonus for firearm training programs across the nation. The Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center investigated what research, hardware, and software are available to address technology gaps found in modern firearms training programs and augment the skillset of trainer and trainee. 1.0 TI Request […]

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Scott-Armistead

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Scott Armistead

HDIAC Senior Staff Engineer

Scott Armistead is a senior staff engineer for SURVICE Engineering, with nearly 35 years working in munitions research, development, operational, and live-fire test and evaluation. He previously served as the Senior Test Manager and Program Engineer for the Joint Munitions T&E Program Office. His experience includes infrared, visible, ultraviolet, millimeterwave, seismic, magnetic, and acoustic
sensors and weapons technologies; kinetic and directed energy weapon systems effectiveness; countermeasures/countercountermeasures development; signature management; and platform survivability.

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Featured News

Pentagon Tackling Nuclear Modernization With Proactive, Integrated Approach

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is instituting a forward-leaning, whole-of-department approach in accomplishing its top priority of maintaining the world’s foremost nuclear deterrence capability, a top Pentagon official said today. Deborah G. Rosenblum, Assistant Secretary of Defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs and Executive Secretary of the Nuclear Weapons Council, said her top priority is ensuring the entire DoD is aligned and […]

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