Emergency Communications Month recognizes and honors our nations’s emergency responders and emphasizes the importance of emergency communications in building resilient critical infrastructure.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency​​ lists resources for ​critical infrastructure organizations which enable essential personnel to communicate when networks are compromised by weather, cyber incidents, simple human error, or any other reason.
Learn more here: ​https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/april-emergency-communications-month-0
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently debuted a new molten salt test loop that will support the development of advanced reactors using molten salts. It will also be used to help support the world’s first fast-spectrum, salt-fueled reactor experiment at the lab scheduled to begin in the 2030s. Molten salt reactors use molten salt as a…
EPCRA Sections 301-303 focus on chemical emergency preparedness and involve state and tribal emergency response commissions and local and tribal emergency planning committees. Emergency plans created under these sections are generally intended to be accessible to the public, with some exceptions for sensitive or classified information. The act’s primary goal is to inform the public about hazardous chemicals in their communities and ensure that emergency…
Learn MoreHDIAC hosts live online technical presentations featuring a DoD research and engineering topic within our technical focus areas.
Hosted by: Austin Doctor, PhD
April 29, 2025 11:00 am
The increasing sophistication and rapid democratization of commercial technologies raise new concerns for the future of terrorism, both in the near and long term. Many commercial technologies – such as unmanned systems, extended reality, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and additive manufacturing – can be used as force-multiplying instruments in various terrorist activities, from…
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….
The Energy Exchange, hosted by the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), is an opportunity for agencies to ensure their workforce understands leadership direction, priorities, goals, and strategies. It’s also a unique opportunity to fulfill training…
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…
Operations Research Analyst, Kansas State University (KSU)
Adrian Self manages advanced technological research and development across multiple program areas at KSU’s National Agricultural Biosecurity Center. Self’s industry and academic background are diverse, encompassing economics research, investment analysis, risk underwriting, and hazard uncertainty calculus. He also possesses knowledge in technology, communications, and foreign languages and cultures, further enhancing multidisciplinary approaches to research and development. Adrian explores complex problems as a multidisciplinary strategist engaging at intersections of cyber-biosecurity, health security, and food and agriculture enterprise pathway resilience.
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