"With more medical teams in place, we will be able to significantly increase the numbers of people getting medical attention," said HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Blauer announced that it has achieved third-party certification of its WZ9435 XRT suit for use with Avon Protection's popular C50 and FM12 respirators.
With this innovative technology, the law-enforcement community will now have the capability to accurately and efficiently search tattoo image databases to identify suspects, criminals & victims. This content-based image-retrieval and -matching technology uses features - such as color, shape, and texture - present in tattoo images, instead of labels or keywords, to compute the similarity between images.
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to allow eligible Haitian nationals who were in the United States as of January 12, 2010 to continue living and working here for the next 18 months.
CEMPlanner is a web-based emergency planning system that brings planners together on a collaborative platform and facilitates the planning process to create and maintain standards-based plans that can be accessed online or downloaded into a printable format.
OSI Systems' (Rapiscan Systems' parent company) CEO Deepak Chopra said, "The cargo-scanning initiative at the Port of San Juan represents not only a new business model for the company but a new model in port security as a first-of-its-kind program which would result in the scanning of all inbound containers at high throughput and low cost."
The United States and New Zealand have agreed to enhance cooperation in science and technology research to improve the shared capabilities of both nations to protect against acts of terrorism and other threats to domestic and external security.
The HICS (Hospital Incident Command System) Command Toolbox, from DQE, is the first step for organizing an incident command situation in a hospital setting. The HICS Command Toolbox enhances a hospital's emergency-response capabilities by providing the tools needed to carry out HICS management procedures.
Bruker has announced that it has advanced to the last phase of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Autonomous Rapid Facility Chemical Agent Monitor (ARFCAM) Research & Development Program, which is intended to develop the 3rd generation chemical detection capability for critical infrastructure.
DHS (Department of Homeland Security) Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism & Homeland Security John Brennan announced recommendations that DHS has made to the President for improving the technology and procedures used to protect air travel from acts of terrorism.
