Following the October 2001 confirmation of anthrax in official government mail, a series of screening processes were implemented to safeguard the Pentagon and other Pentagon delegated facilities from biological hazards that might [Read more]
An analytical technology that may impact how medical professionals predict, diagnose and treat disease has earned the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory an award for excellence in technology transfer by the Federal Laboratory [Read more]
The CBRNe Convergence 2017 Congress & Exhibition will be held November 6-8, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Organized by the experienced team from CBRNe World magazine, this 10th iteration draws leading experts and [Read more]
The only deployable laboratory in the Army, the 1st Area Medical Laboratory, successfully completed an annual Certification Training Exercise last month at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The mission of the 1st AML [Read more]
The CBRNe Summit Asia 2016 conference will be held December 5-7, 2016 in Hanoi, Vietnam. This event features stakeholder presentations on all aspects of CBRNe defense, allowing you to develop your understanding [Read more]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is conducting market research to determine the availability of emerging technologies that can improve the detection and characterization of biological threat agent signatures. Highlighted areas of [Read more]
Astrotech Corporation subsidiary 1st Detect Corporation and strategic partner Battelle Memorial Institute have completed the Brassboard Phase and were awarded the Final Prototype Phase of the U.S. military’s Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD) [Read more]
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including digital pathogen detection, Ebola virus lingering in spinal fluid, and melioidosis outbreak drivers. POLICY & PRACTICES Zika funding bill fails as Congress [Read more]
The 2016 EPA International Decontamination R&D Conference will be held November 1-3, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. This 9th international conference on decontamination research and development is hosted by U.S. EPA’s Office [Read more]
Block MEMS, a leading developer of Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) based infrared detection systems, has been awarded a $9.8M contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to develop a system [Read more]
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