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

Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience North America

There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security,…

2025 Pacific Operational Science & Technology (POST) Conference

Join NDIA and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for the 2025 Pacific Operational Science & Technology (POST) Conference. This event promises to deliver a platform for collaboration, innovation, and exploration of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)…

Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium

The 13th Annual Joint Civil & U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Symposium will explore efforts and strategies to address and mitigate current and emerging CBRN threats and challenges. The…

2025 AMSUS Annual Meeting

AMSUS, The Society of Federal Health Professionals, serves as a communication platform for the advancement of health professionals in all federal health agencies, as well as other nations. Key speakers include: Dr. Shereef Elnahal, Under…

Military Health System Conference

The Military Health System (MHS) Conference is a four-day annual conference sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. Conference attendees are comprised of government, military, and industry healthcare professionals….

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,…

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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