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Federal Resources Co-Chairs Iraq 3rd National CBRN Security Coordination Conference

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 02 May 2018.

MAY 2, 2018 (BAGHDAD, IRAQ) - Federal Resources, the premier single-source provider of customized, integrated solutions to military (Foreign Military Sales) and civilian (Direct Commercial Sale) CBRN incident response teams served as this year’s co-chair of the Iraq 3rd National CBRN Security Coordination Conference held in Baghdad, April 16-19, 2018. This is Federal Resources’ second year participating in the annual conference and is in support of broader Iraqi and U.S. Government (USG) efforts to prevent the proliferation of sensitive or weaponizable CBRN materials and mitigate the use of CBRN WMDs in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region.

Security, Threat, Equipment, Military, Defense

Welcome to Argon's CBRNe and HazMat Training Insights newsletter.

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 01 May 2018.

Welcome to Argon's CBRNe and HazMat Training Insights newsletter. In this edition: read how to provide realistic HazMat training for the detection of CWAs; learn how to create realistic and safe HazMat training scenarios; explore balancing realism and reality in radiation safety training and discover the role of personal protective equipment in realistic hazmat training. Enjoy the read!

Detection, Equipment, CBRNe, Chemical, Military, Radiation, Warfare

Convergence 2018 Workshops Announced

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 01 May 2018.

It is with great excitement that we announce the topics and content of this year's pre-conference workshops. We have brought together world experts to share their first hand experiences with you.

On the 6th of November we will be holding two workshops, looking at Sensitive site exploitation and Mass fatality incidents.

To find out more, and to register, head to our event pages http://www.cbrneworld.com/convergence2018/news

Proniras Awarded BARDA contract to develop nerve agent MCM

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 01 May 2018.

Proniras Corporation announced in April that it has been awarded a contract potentially worth $89.5 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop tezampanel as a medical countermeasure for the treatment of nerve agent-induced seizures that are not stopped by current medications. Tezampanel is a small molecule compound that previously had been evaluated in clinical trials as a potential therapy for acute migraine and other neurologic indications and has demonstrated an attractive safety and pharmacokinetic profile in more than 400 human subjects.

Security, Contract

FLIR receives order for DR-SKO Systems

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 01 May 2018.

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced on April 26th that it received a delivery order for 22 U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Dismounted Reconnaissance Sets, Kits, and Outfits (CBRN DR-SKO) systems. The delivery order is under a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Department of Defense, in support of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) DR-SKO Program of Record. The order is valued at $25.6 million, with deliveries extending through the fourth quarter of 2018.

Chemical, Military, Army, Biological, Nuclear, Radiological, Weapons, Contract, Defense

Tracerco Launch Extended PED Range

Written by CBRNe World Stafff on 20 April 2018.

Tracerco, part of the FTSE100 company, Johnson Matthey Plc, has added to its award-winning range of radiation monitors with two new Personal Electronic Dosimeters (PEDs) – the PED-ER and PED-ER+. With an extended dose rate range of up to 1 Sv/h (100 R/h) and a light, compact, robust and reliable design, the PED-ER and PED-ER+ provide the ultimate radiation monitoring, measurement and management solution for those working in challenging environments.

Radiation

United States Air Force Selects Med-Eng EOD 10 Bomb Suit to Protect its EOD Teams

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 12 April 2018.

Med-Eng®, a brand of The Safariland Group, today announced it has been awarded a five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide the United States Air Force (USAF) with the Med-Eng EOD® 10 bomb suit to protect personnel conducting Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operations. The USAF selected the EOD 10 suit and accessories through a competitive solicitation process that required meeting the new National Institute of Justice Standard 0117.01 (NIJ Standard) for protection against blast, fragmentation, impact and heat, among many other demanding factors. Under the contract, which has a maximum value of $15 million, the USAF may procure up to 305 EOD 10 bomb suits during the five-year term.

Threat, Equipment, Chemical, Military, Army, Protection, Biological, Contract, Explosive

Emergent Biosolutions announces successful MRP for market authorisation of BioThrax®

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 12 April 2018.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) today announced the successful completion of the Mutual Recognition Procedure (MRP) for market authorisation of BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) in five Concerned Member States (CMS) within the European Union (EU), including Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the U.K., and France (where it will be marketed as BaciThrax™). Emergent filed the mutual recognition application based on the existing Marketing Authorisation of BioThrax in Germany granted by the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. Following the positive MRP outcome, national licences are due to be issued shortly by the five CMS countries.

Security, Threat

QinetiQ selected by US DoD for EMD phase of US Army’s Common Robotic System program

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 05 April 2018.

QinetiQ Group plc recently announced that its US business, QinetiQ North America, has been selected as one of two suppliers for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the US Department of Defense’s Common Robotic System (Individual) (CRS-I) program.

QinetiQ will share in a $429,082,857 hybrid contract for two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts that will have an engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of approximately 10 months, during which the contractors will each deliver two run-off test assets that the government will test and evaluate.

Additionally during the EMD period, the contractors will deliver seven Common Robotic System (individual) systems and eight production representative systems to support government testing and activities, and will provide support for system interoperability profile instantiation conformance test, early security control assessment and penetration assessment (cyber) tests. Once EMD is complete, the government will evaluate the results of the run-off test along with revised price proposals to determine which contractor will be awarded the low-rate initial production phase and convert its multiple award contract to a single award.

FLIR and DJI collaborate on commercial drone camera

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 03 April 2018.

FLIR and DJI recently announced that they have collaborated for the second time with DJI integrating a FLIR thermal imaging sensor technology into its new DJI Zenmuse XT2 drone camera.

The XT2 is DJI’s first dual-sensor and most advanced gimbal-stabilized camera for commercial drone applications. The project, which furthers the collaboration between FLIR® and DJI, also joins the 'Thermal by FLIR’ partner program, which FLIR created to fuel thermal innovation and allow partners to leverage the leadership, quality, and innovation that FLIR’s brand represents in the thermal imaging space.

Equipment

Coriolis biocollectors tested under real conditions at the S/K Challenge in Dugway (USA)

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 29 March 2018.

Bertin Instruments will participate in the next S/K Challenge on May 7th to 18th, 2018, at the Dugway test site in the Utah desert (USA).

Detection, Threat, Equipment, Chemical, Army, Biological

Second Sight MS delivered to the US Army

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 29 March 2018.

Beginning of September 2017, the US Army contacted Bertin Corp., Bertin’s subsidiary in Washington, to purchase a Second Sight MS detector.

This instrument is the only chemical standoff gas detection device offering real time surveillance and source localization.

Detection, Equipment, Identification, Chemical, Detector, Army

SaphyRAD MS, multiprobe military survey meter designed for fight against radioactive contaminations

Written by CBRNe World Staff on 29 March 2018.

The SaphyRAD MS is the latest multi-probe survey meter designed for operations in harsh environment, to be used on military fields or by hazmat teams.

Detection, Security, Emergency, Threat, Identification, Chemical, Military, Army, Biological, Nuclear, Radiation, Radiological, Defense

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