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The Defense Systems Information Analysis Center was asked to identify if cleaning chemicals applied by electrostatic sprayers are effective at sanitizing touch surfaces. COVID-19 has highlighted the need for innovative sanitation methods for touch surfaces. Electrostatic sprayers that apply charged cleaning solutions to various surfaces have been identified as potential solutions for large-area decontamination. The concept is that the charged spray droplets will adhere to […]
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Teresa Wu
Vice President of Innovation and Client Engagement, IDEMIA
Teresa Wu serves as a cross-functional team leader to drive client success activities within the Identity & Security North America (ISNA) business unit at IDEMIA, where she manages product portfolios for technologies like biometric capture and identification systems, facial recognition, and digital ID. Her extensive identity and biometric industry experience influences ISNA innovation, strategy, the Corporate Social Responsibility business model, intellectual property, and industry advocacy. She uses her subject matter expertise to promote biometric standards in the industry by advocating algorithmic excellence and facial recognition best practices.
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Strength in standards development has been instrumental to the United States’ global technological leadership. Standards development underpins economic prosperity across the country and fortifies U.S. leadership in the industries of the future at the same time. Bolstering U.S. engagement in standards for critical and emerging technology spaces will strengthen U.S. economic and national security. The U.S. government has long engaged in these standards development processes […]
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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
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…
Micro Radiation Emergency Medicine (MicroREM)
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Mixed-Hazardous Waste Consequence Management Event | Real-Time Tabletop Exercise
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