HOMELAND DEFENSE

& Security Digest

11 FEBRUARY 2025

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

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CALL FOR PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS

HDIAC is proud to host the 2025 Public Health in a Migrant Crisis Tabletop Exercise during the week of May 5, 2025. This year’s exercise will focus on operations in camps designed for refugees, internally displaced persons, and other people in need of ​international protection. We are seeking presentations on new and novel research which can positively impact management of public health in such a scenario.

HDIAC will accept abstracts for presentations through February 28, 2025. Submitters will receive an answer no later than March 10, 2025.

Click here for more information:  https://hdiac.dtic.mil/call-for-abstracts/.​

FEATURED ARTICLE

Public Health in a Displaced Persons Camp Training

HDIAC is proud to host the 2025 Public Health in a Migrant Crisis Tabletop Exercise during the week of May 5, 2025. This year’s exercise will focus on operations in camps designed for refugees, internally displaced persons, and other people in need of international protection. Click the link below for more information and registration.

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Is there any empirical data for dry decontamination operational procedures?

Dry decontamination techniques could benefit cold areas where water and other liquids may freeze, such as in arctic regions.  These techniques would also benefit austere environments when water is not readily available in large quantities.  This report summarizes several recent studies into dry decontamination.  It includes commercial-off-the-shelf technologies that have been assessed for their effectiveness on several chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and basic research done…

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FUTURE WEBINARS

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

Ignition and the Path Toward an Inertial Fusion Energy Future

In December 2022, a team at Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) conducted the first controlled fusion experiment in history to reach scientific energy breakeven, producing more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it. In that experiment, where 2.05 MJ of laser energy was delivered to the target, a…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

GridSecCon 2025

NERC, the E-ISAC, and WECC are cohosting the 14th annual Grid Security Conference, GridSecCon, from October 7-10 in Las Vegas. Join cyber and physical security leaders for four days of collaboration, networking, and expert training…

TechNet Indo-Pacific 2025

TechNet Indo-Pacific is the largest strategic event of its kind in the Indo-Pacific Rim. USINDOPACOM works closely with partners to enable resilient, survivable and secure collaboration across the spectrum of contingencies. TechNet Indo-Pacific, now in…

DoD Energy & Power Summit

The 4th Annual U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Energy and Power Summit will focus on the technologies and policies necessary to support greater energy efficiency, resiliency, affordability, and environmental sustainability for the DoD for both…

Voice From the Community

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Mason T. Armstrong, Maj., USAF (14N)

United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)

Mason Armstrong is the senior C5ISRT technology integrator at USNORTHCOM’s Science and Technology Division. His team is charged with pursuing technological solutions that further develop and sustain homeland defense, defense support of civil authorities, and theater security cooperation missions of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and USNORTHCOM. He previously served as the lead intelligence planner at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, where he led the Defense Intel Enterprise in contingency planning for China.

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