HOMELAND DEFENSE

& Security Digest

17 OCTOBER 2023

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

FEATURED ARTICLE

DoD Announces Release of 2023 Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released the unclassified version of its 2023 Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD). The 2023 DoD CWMD Strategy seeks to account for current and emerging WMD challenges and threats and provide tailored methods to address them. The Department will account for WMD threats holistically to prevent, mitigate,…

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Microreactor Technology

Microreactor technology has the potential to provide benefits to the military in both domestic and overseas operations. In response to a technical inquiry received by the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center, several microreactor programs were explored. This includes three government programs:  (1) Project Pele, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense,  (2) the Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation Project, and (3) Modeling-Enhanced…

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

Radiation Biodosimetry: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

In the case of radiological/nuclear (R/N) mass casualty incidents, several thousands of humans may be exposed to ionizing radiation. Timely assessment of radiation dose is critical for making an appropriate “lifesaving” clinical decision for those with acute high-radiation dose exposures. The dicentric chromosome assay is considered the “gold standard” for biodosimetry, but its laborious and…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

13th Annual SOF & Irregular Warfare Symposium

The 13th Annual SOF and Irregular Warfare Symposium will focus on the dynamic challenges of modern unconventional warfare. As state and nonstate actors continue to evolve their strategies, this year’s event will gather senior leaders…

Eastern Defense Summit 2024

The Eastern Defense Summit, formerly known as the annual CDCA Defense Summit, brings more than 2,000 government, military, academia, and industry leaders together to better understand and address today’s challenges and threats within our defense…

Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Conference

The AFCEA Atlanta Chapter presents the next Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. AFCEA provides the a meeting place for government, academia, and industry working in all disciplines in industry, service, government,…

The 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is an international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. It is cosponsored by the IEEE Biometrics Council and…

Voice From the Community

Boreman Glenn
From Lab to the Literal Field:

Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics & Optical Science, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte

Glenn Boreman is a professor and Chair of the Department of Physics & Optical Science at UNC at Charlotte, where his research interests include infrared (IR) and electro-optical systems, IR antennas, and image-quality assessments. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Central Florida and has supervised 27 Ph.D. students to completion. Prof. Boreman is a Fellow of SPIE, OSA, IEEE, and the Military Sensing Symposium.

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