The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) Biological program has been accredited by the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) International.

ABSA inspectors visited the COBRATF, a biosafety level 2 facility, in 2017, and evaluated the COBRATF’s Biological Program management system, safety program, operating procedures, facilities, laboratory, and work practices.

The Tauri Group has been awarded two task orders under the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) Omnibus Program Engineering and Technical Support (OPETS) Medical Domain.

This contract and task orders provide support services to the Department of Defense's JPEO-CBD for production and fielding of chemical and biological defense materials. The task order A award will provide Bioengineers and Scientists to support the JPEO-CBD Joint Project Manager (JPM) Medical Countermeasures Systems, JPM Protection, and JPM Guardian.

Radiation Shield Technologies, noted as the only manufacturer offering personal protection gear that is proven to provide protection against ionizing radiation, chemical and biological threats as well as heat stress, is reporting an increase in direct sales to civilians in the U.S. and worldwide, particularly in South Korea, of the Demron personal-protection gear traditionally used by first responders and other safety professionals.

Siga Technologies have received the good news that the FDA has greed to expedite its review of their new Smallpox treatment TPOXX®. FDA reviews usually take 10 months but in this instance they have agreed to complete the review of TPOXX® in only 6 months.

Laboratory and animal tests suggest that SIGA’s investigational countermeasure TPOXX® (USAN tecovirimat, ST-246®)*, blocks the ability of the virus to spread, thus preventing disease symptoms in animal models of smallpox in which TPOXX has been tested to date.

Siga, which is headquartered in New York and maintains research laboratories in Corvallis, has already delivered 2 million courses of its smallpox treatment to the Strategic National Stockpile under a $433 million contract with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.

On January 9th 2018, Ludovic Ouvry attended the Lyon Chamber of Commerce for a day dedicated to the 2018 calls for Security in the H2020 program.

The objective of this day is to enable the actors of research and innovation in security to inform themselves, to exchange ideas together and to prepare for security calls for projects. Presentations at this meeting included: The involvement of end-users in European projects; the French security strategy, the organization implemented and the results of the 2017 security calls; the Security Challenge Program in Horizon 2020 and the 2018 Calls for this Challenge; and the public support systems.

In the presence of Mr Jérôme Perrin from the Ministry of the Interior (ministerial delegation to the security industries), the French national security contact points PCN ( Mr Armand NACHEF) and the SAFE Cluster focusing on global security ( Jean Michel DUMAZ) the ENCIRCLE project was presented along with its level of progress. The audience of 60, mainly industrial and some academics, was made aware of the integration approach in both communities.

DARPA is proposing an ambitious new program to counter proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: checking suspects’ epigenetic markers to track history of exposure to associated materials.

The endgame of this program, called Epigenetic Characterization and Observation (ECHO), is the creation of a field-deployable system that could analyze someone’s epigenome and identify markers of whether or not–in that person’s entire lifetime–been exposed to WMD-associated materials.

Smiths Detection is supplying next generation hold baggage scanners to support the upgrade to ECAC Standard 3 explosives detection systems (EDS) at Düsseldorf Airport.

The recording of our first webinar from the PUBLIC Training Sessions, Spring '18 series is now available

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) selected the Navy's 'Dahlgren Decon' technology for a 2018 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD).

The FLC award—presented annually to employees from more than 300 federal laboratories for outstanding work in transferring federally developed technology—will be awarded to NSWCDD for the first time at the FLC national meeting in Philadelphia, Penn., April 25.

Romania’s General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) is to establish a network of regional training centers for its operative personnel as part of a 40 million Euro project. IGSU is rolling out the project because of its lack of facilities and infrastructure dedicated to the training of its operative personnel, Cristian Radu, first deputy with IGSU, explained.

The centers, which will be located in Iaşi, Suceava, Timiş, Hunedoara, Dolj, Constanţa, Mureş, and Bucharest will be “ will be dedicated to the operative personnel acquiring competences, on the one hand, but also to creating a network of regional training centers […] for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense CBRN intervention, climbers, divers, paramedics, firemen,” stated Radu.

DetectaChem, developer and manufacturer of rapidly deployable, super-compact and easy-to-operate threat detection systems, is proud to announce the release of the MobileDetect smartphone application for drug detection.

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