HOMELAND DEFENSE

& Security Digest

24 MAY 2022

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

FEATURED ARTICLE

CBC Teams Explore Low-Cost, Lightweight Sensors for Warfighter Use

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD – The Soldier in the field is often required to carry multiple pieces of gear to handle various situations, and every pound matters. With this in mind, Army scientists and engineers are using their diverse skills to cultivate a microsensor development capability at the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical…

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Military Working Dog CBRN Protection and Medical Countermeasures

Military working dogs are critical force multipliers to the U.S. Department of Defense. Protecting them in a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) environment is every bit as important as it is for their human counterparts. The Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) researched CBRN protective equipment, medical countermeasures, and items available in the medical stockpile at the request of a military veterinarian….

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FUTURE WEBINARS

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

Military-Civilian Medical Surge Response: Why It Is More Critical Than Ever

Over the last several years, disasters, infectious disease outbreaks, and threats from foreign near-peer adversaries have demonstrated the need to improve the military-civilian medical surge augmentation capability to effectively respond to situations that result in an influx of patients disrupting daily operations. Whether supporting the Global Health Security Agenda, the National Disaster Medical System, or…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The 2024 Law Enforcement Theme Week

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will host the 2024 Law Enforcement Theme Week training during the week of November 17 – 23, 2024 (17th and 23rd are travel days) on the CDP campus in…

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…

2024 Resilience Week

Join the 2024 Resilience Week in Austin, Texas to engage with private and public partners to discuss collaborations to work together and ensure a secure and resilient flow of energy across the nation. Large disasters…

The 2024 Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference

Join the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA’s) Chemical and Biological Technologies Department in its role as the Joint Science and Technology (S&T) Office (JSTO) for Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD), an integral component of the…

1st Annual EOD Technology & Bombing Prevention Summit

Join a premier gathering for professionals in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), public safety bomb technicians (PSBTs), and bombing prevention communities. The EOD Technology and Bombing Prevention Summit offers an opportunity to network, gain knowledge, and…

DoD Energy and Environment Innovation Symposium

The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Energy and Environment Innovation Symposium focuses on the DoD’s priority in environmental and energy issues. The symposium will offer a variety of technical sessions and short courses, over 700…

Voice From the Community

Dr. Molly Jahn, DARPA
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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