The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is making a respirator concept available for license under the Easy Access IP scheme.

Security personnel, military teams and first responders requiring remote radiation detection and identification can now turn to two new, high-precision spectroscopy instruments that offer multiple telemetry options.

EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS EXPANDS BIODEFENSE BUSINESS THROUGH LAUNCH OF A MILITARY-GRADE AUTO-INJECTOR DEVICE FOR CHEMICAL THREATS

908 Devices and Smiths Detection announced that they had been selected to move forward in the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD) program.

Avon Protection has been awarded full approval for CE Marking for its single use compact and portable escape hood which is designed for emergency escape and evacuation from areas contaminated by CBRN agents.

908 Devices announce that Massachusetts’ Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Division will be first customer of M908

Where is the line in speculating on CBRN devices.

Tracerco, part of the Johnson Matthey group, has added to its range of award winning radiation monitors with a family of Personal Electronic Dosimeters (PEDs).

A solutions provider to the CBRNE community, Bruker Detection, will introduce the new SVG3™ lightweight radiation detector, at this year’s IDEX, Abu Dhabi.

Rigaku Raman Technologies, a manufacturer of handheld and portable Raman spectrometers, has introduced Progeny™ ResQ™, the new generation in handheld chemical detection. Progeny ResQ enables the detection, identification and response to chemical and hazardous threats at the touch of a button.

CDP starts its new Linked In account

Russia seems to be stepping up its CBRN Defence

Russian special forces NBC defence troops get new detector vehicles

Alluviam’s HazMasterG3 Version 18 delivers exclusive HazMAT Quick Start best-practices playbook to responders, is endorsed by HazMatIQ and has been adopted for use in their HMEIQ training program for military and civilian hazardous materials response and EOD teams.

DQE, who have recently been in the news rationing tychem suits, announced further preparation now for what's next...

BioFire Defense announced today that it has received Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its commercial FilmArray Ebola test (BioThreat-E test) as well as a second Ebola test to be used by laboratories designated by the Department of Defense.

CBRN Academy/Swedish Rescue Training Centre AB and Lutra Associates Limited form partnership offering improved strategy, doctrine and equipment advice and realistic training for CBRNe, Hazmat, Civil and Disaster Relief

Interested in a free app to help track waste material during a disaster/terrorist attack?

Defense Group, manufacturer of CoBRA software, announced that they had been helping provide a Common Operating Picture to the Brazilian government during the World Cup.

While we might not be seeing a return to the grant funding 'boom' times, we are seeing a activity in grant funding... sadly, for first responders at least, it is getting less.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), have launched the latest version of their Wiser software for the Android

An improved REMM and funding opportunities for small businesses.

Argon Electronics has been contracted by the United States Air Force through the Air Force Civil Engineer Center to deliver their PlumeSIM CBRN training system to enhance CBRN exercises at the Silver Flag Exercise Site at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida

The UK government is working on their decon decision support tool and have launched their pilot for comment

The UK Police National CBRN centre at Ryton deployed a range of Argon simulators to support a major chemical terrorism exercise staged at the ICC Convention centre in Birmingham on 15th August.

First Line Technology is giving one deserving agency or organization an AmbuBus® Bus Stretcher Conversion Kit™ worth up to $35,000

Dublin company Decisions [D4H] has secured a five-year contract with the Government of Alberta, Canada

Provide needed private space with the Privacy Cube

Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) will test the ability to deploy and redeploy from a CBRN incident during a command post exercise May 20 – 24 at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, known as Exercise Sudden Response 13 (SR 13).

Bruhn NewTech delivers the next generation of its HazKey® Systems to the Royal Netherlands Air Force

(CNN) -- Some 35 people -- including 10 first responders -- died in a massive explosion Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Mayor Tommy Muska said, according to USA Today.

Hotzone Solutions recently started a series of field testing; why?

Registration is now open for the George Mason University Summer Program in International Security

WISER now fully integrates content from the Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management(CHEMM) website

U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard Expand Common Operating Picture Capability as CoBRA WEB version Receives U.S.A.F Certification

Cobham has been awarded a £16M order to supply NATO forces with leading-edge vehicle mounted IED detection equipment.

Syria is an interesting beast for the CBRN community. It one of the most present threats of CBRN use in the news media - and in the midst of this strife, like all wars, there is the danger of profiteering and incompetence.

Preparedness is the watchword for any professional who puts his or her life on the line to deal with chemical spills, accidents and other dangerous situations. While training is important, when a hazmat suit is the only thing standing between a first responder and harmful chemicals or gases,

Partnership with Mirion gives full range of radiation detection technologies

10:43 – Mysterious illness, which in recent weeks has prompted widespread panic in the Ugandan district of Kibale, is confirmed as Ebola haemorrhagic fever

Current phase of study to collect data on airborne contaminant behavior began on July 29

Trip wires, jars of liquid and ammunition piled up at home of James Holmes, the alleged gunman in Colorado cinema assault

JTF-CS is the only standing chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear response joint task force in the U.S.