The Community Preparedness Webinar series focuses on bringing together government and community leaders to involve citizens in all-hazards preparedness and resilience. The webinar is designed to help raise awareness that such an event could happen almost anywhere and at any time.
The new online tool - available from February 6 to March 19 - allows members of the public and interested stakeholders to submit ideas and suggestions on ways the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can enhance transparency, participation, collaboration, and innovation - while saving taxpayer money.
The Disaster Response & Recovery Exposition (DRRE), co-located with the 2010 Integrated Medical, Public Health, Preparedness, and Response Training Summit, is the perfect opportunity for local, state, and federal public health and emergency preparedness practitioners and policy makers to discover the latest equipment, technologies, and services now available.
The daily fingerprinting of hundreds of thousands of people must be carried out expeditiously without sacrificing accuracy or inviting a culture clash. Here is how the Department of Homeland Security is using Science and Technology to increase user-friendliness as well as technical exactitude.
Faced with the task of searching the heavily damaged plant, responders quickly went into action. Personnel from Middletown's Office of Emergency Management and the state's Department of Public Health set up two DRASH (DRASH 3XB & DRASH 6XB) shelters to support their efforts.
MorphoTrak (Safran Group) has announced that the biometric matching technology it uses, through Sagem Sécurité, has earned the highest rank in the recent National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) test for latent fingerprint accuracy.
ILC Dover has received NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) approval on an alkaline battery pack assembly for the company's Sentinel XL PAPR. The Alkaline Battery Pack comes with 5 "D" size Duracell Batteries & can be used with both the Sentinel CBRN and Sentinel HP systems and is designed to function with existing fielded units or newly purchased systems.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the interagency Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group, issued a draft of the National Disaster Recovery Framework - which is focused on engaging state, local, and tribal governments, nonprofit partners, the private sector, and the public to enhance the nation's ability to recovery from disasters.
"America's firefighters play a critical role in disaster prevention and response," said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "These Recovery Act-funded fire station construction projects and upgrades will strengthen community preparedness and the nation's emergency response capabilities."
CHIPS (Communication Headset Integrated Product Suite) Communication System integrates with MSA's Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) to provide communication configurations, clear radio communications, and hearing protection for areas where weapons may be fired.
