HOMELAND DEFENSE

& Security Digest

6 FEBRUARY 2024

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

FEATURED ARTICLE

Personal Protective Equipment, Military

One System, Varied Missions: SOCOM Community’s Collaborative Efforts Deliver a Comprehensive CBRN Protective Mask

Modern warfighters face various biological and chemical threats on the battlefield, from disease to potential manmade poisons, and they require more protective and innovative gear to keep them safe in the varied environments they encounter. When you think of a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) protective mask, most people visualize one of the currently…

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

A U.S. Marine in chemical protective clothing checks places a purple chem light on a table with other equipment.

Rendering Riot Control Agents (RCAs) as Materiel Designated as Safe (MDAS)

The Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) was asked to provide information on the processes to render select RCAs as MDAS.  Although the inquirer’s primary interests were in finding approaches outside incendiary ones, all discovered approaches were included in this report. HDIAC partnered with SciTech Services, Inc., to research this topic and generate a report on the various methods for rendering from agnostic…

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FUTURE WEBINARS

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

Novel Nuclear Forensics for the 21st Century

This work will demonstrate how ubiquitous radiological characterization can take place throughout all nuclear facilities for all nuclear material (even those facilities the United States does not know exist). The presentation will detail how this technology is passively integrated into current and future nuclear facilities. The fundamental physics utilized for such grandiose claims are thermoluminescence,…

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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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Dr. Eric Jones

Lead Health Physicist/RSO/LSO, CDC

Dr. Eric Jones is the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) at the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he ensures the possession, safe use, storage, and disposal of byproduct radioactive material. He manages and administers the Radiation Safety Program activities; identifies safety problems; and ensures compliance with CDC radiation safety procedures and NRC regulatory requirements for the safe use of radioactive material. With 22 years’ experience in health physics, he also served as an RSO for the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Veterans Health Administration.

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