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The Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) was asked to identify U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) or U.S. government (USG) subject matter experts (SMEs) with expertise in disease diagnostic platforms, specifically those utilizing genome editing tools to search for the presence of specific nucleic acids. The inquirer was also interested in any military applications for such platforms. An active technical inquiry to assist […]
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Dr. Molly Jahn
Program Manager, DARPA
Dr. Molly Jahn joined DARPA as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office. Her work focuses on building programs to improve resiliency in the global food and agricultural systems—critical infrastructure sectors so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on national security. She has held multiple appointments in academia, at national laboratories, and in the U.S. government, including serving as Deputy and Acting Under Secretary of Research, Education, and Economics at the Department of Agriculture.
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MANAMA, Bahrain – Naval Sea System Command’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV), in coordination with Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain’s Environmental Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Europe Africa Central, successfully conducted a comprehensive salvage and pollution response drill as part of an annual oil spill response training exercise onboard NSA Bahrain, November 5-8. The four-day exercise coincided with the annual maintenance of SUPSALV […]
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USAMMDA, USAMTEAC Teams Test Field-Portable Ventilator, Prolonged Care Kit During Operational Assessment With Fort Liberty-Based Medical Company
Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA) completed a field operational assessment on November 5 at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, testing the field-worthiness of a lightweight, portable ventilator and the Prolonged…
U.S. Navy Deploys Newest Medical Expeditionary Capability Aboard Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group
The U.S. Navy deployed the first En-Route Care System (ERCS) medical expeditionary capability aboard the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKECSG) during a regularly scheduled deployment, October 14. The ERCS consists of a critical care nurse…
Common Analytical Laboratory System Field Confirmatory Analytical Capability Set (CALS FC ACS) Completes Fielding to the National Guard
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD – The Joint Project Manager for Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Sensors, part of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) celebrates the completion…
NRL ISS Mission Seeks New Bioinspired Materials
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Melanized Microbes for Multiple Uses in Space Project, or MELSP, will use the International Space Station (ISS) to search for production of melanin variants and other useful biomaterials that can…
Migration of Elements Found in Nuclear Waste May Get a Boost From Natural Proteins
Past and present nuclear activities (energy, research, and weapon tests) have increased the need to understand the behavior of radioactive materials in the environment. Nuclear wastes containing actinides (such as plutonium, americium, curium, and neptunium)…
Senior Defense Leaders Visit Kazakhstan to Commemorate Cooperative Anniversary
FORT BELVOIR, Va.—The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Director (DTRA) Rebecca Hersman and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Threat Reduction and Arms Control (TRAC) Kingston Reif traveled to the Republic of Kazakhstan for key…
Cultural and Area Studies Panel Discusses Key Issues in China-U.S. Relations
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – When discussing national security, it is not uncommon to examine India in comparison to China as a rising power in the Indo-Pacific. In the second Cultural and Area Studies panel of…
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The 12th IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT) conference will be held January 29-30, 2024, at the DoubleTree – Mission Valley in San Diego, CA. EESAT has been a forum for presenting advances…
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Join us in person in beautiful New Orleans for the third installment of Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems, MiNES, to focus on research in the fission reactor materials community. The MiNES conference series grew out…