Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has announced the publication of a notice of proposed rulemaking which would extend the border zone up to 55 miles, from the current 25 mile restriction, for Border Crossing Card (BCC) holders in the state of New Mexico. This proposed change would allow BCC holders to travel to the towns of Deming and Las Cruces, N.M., stimulating commerce, trade, and tourism activity in the area.
The WebEOC®-based CMS will support emergency management processes and functions, and provide a common operating picture with comprehensive situational awareness for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its federal, state, local, and tribal strategic partners.
Kirk Ririe, Chief Executive Officer of Idaho Technology, said that, "We are pleased to report these encouraging findings, which demonstrate the broad applicability of our FilmArray rapid diagnostic platform. We recently initiated clinical trials for our blood culture ID (BCID) panel and expect to launch the clinical evaluation for our gastrointestinal (GI) panel in the first quarter of next year. Pending regulatory clearance, we expect the BCID panel to be available commercially in the United States and Europe in the first half of 2013, and the GI panel to follow early in 2014."
FLIR Systems Inc. and the Cayman Chemical Company have joined forces to provide law enforcement agencies with a powerful new tool in the battle against designer drugs by using Cayman Chemical's forensic standards to create a Mass Spectral Library for FLIR's Griffin 460 transportable Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) system.
To help improve the health outcomes of patients who require emergency care, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has created a new Office of Emergency Care Research (OECR) to serve as a focal point for basic, clinical, and translational emergency care research and training across NIH.
The Elite is the next generation of Smiths Detection's HazMatID, the most widely used field-portable Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) solid and liquid identifier. One tenth the size, and only one fourth the weight of the original, it uses innovative sampling techniques for the reliable determination of suspicious powders and can also be used for direct surface contaminant analyses and robotics integration.
The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), working in partnership with the DHS Office of Health Affairs (OHA) and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), has developed an innovative online educational outreach program and focused website for the physician medical directors of local departments and agencies who are involved in emergency medical services (EMS) responses.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency is in the process of installing a special information radio station - referred to as a Travelers Information Station/Highway Advisory Radio (TIS/HAR) system - at key land border ports of entry, providing the information needed by approaching motorists to help expedite their passage across the border.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that the agency has screened more than two million travelers through the TSA PreCheck prescreening initiative. The latter is a major component of the agency's broader effort to implement risk-based concepts that enhance aviation security by: (a) focusing more on travelers the agency knows the least about; and (b) allowing known travelers the opportunity to expedite their travel through security checkpoints.
"Chris's strong technical selling skills as well as his knowledge of our customer base and history of success in territory building and management make him an ideal fit for this role, and we look forward to having him help Environics USA continue to achieve profitable growth," commented Timo Jaakkola, President and COO of Environics USA.
