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National Defense October 2015 Stew Magnuson	Chemical-Biological Program Speeds Up Acquisition Process Whenever there is a crisis somewhere in the world related to chemical, biological or radiological weapons or accidents, "the first phone call comes to us," said Carmen Spencer, joint program executive officer for chemical and biological defense.
National Defense March 2005 Harold Kennedy	Homeland Defense The Defense Department's agency in charge of developing chemical and biological defense technologies is shifting its focus from large-scale incidents on the battlefield to small-scale terrorist attacks against civilians.
National Defense August 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Pentagon Spurs its Biological And Chemical Defense Programs The Pentagon is trying to buttress the military's defensive posture against biological and chemical weapons by focusing on the development of advanced vaccines and improved therapeutics. A surge in money is fueling this effort.
National Defense June 2010 Grace V. Jean	Research Challenge: How to Defend Against Still-Undefined Chemical, Biological Attacks Military scientists are often criticized for not working fast enough and for not pushing technologies into the field more expeditiously. Those working in chemical and biological sciences are no exception.
National Defense June 2010 Grace V. Jean	To Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Reaching Out To International Partners U.S. officials believe that terrorists aspire to build bio-weapons. The White House is also expanding collaborative efforts with international partners to help prevent such attacks.
National Defense August 2005 Joe Pappalardo	New Science, Strategy Needed to Protect Bases The military is launching a new effort, including equipment purchases, scientific studies and research initiatives, to guard military bases, supply hubs and civilian installations against biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear strikes.
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	At Special Ops Forum, Experts Weigh Prospect of WMD Attacks As military leaders devote increasing attention to neutralizing roadside bombs in Iraq, specialists caution that it would be a mistake to dismiss the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson	Military Services Eye Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Detection While efforts are in progress to improve the ability to detect and deter intruders at military installations, a separate set of programs is tackling how to detect and respond to an attack involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive agents.
National Defense May 2006 Stew Magnuson	Chemical Suits Fitted for Unconventional War The possibility of insurgents using homemade biological and chemical weapons is part of an ongoing debate on what kind of protective suits and masks ground forces need.
National Defense June 2007 Stew Magnuson	National Guard, Army Chemical Units Criticized for Being Untrained, Unprepared Acute shortages of equipment and personnel means less time, or no time, to train.
National Defense January 2006 Grace Jean	Pentagon Chem-Bio Program Expands to Homeland Missions The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are seeking to homogenize the equipment that military units and local first responders employ to detect and neutralize toxic agents.
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home.
National Defense June 2007 Breanne Wagner	Agencies Scramble to Create Vaccine Market Defense and Homeland Security are pursuing disparate vaccination programs to combat different needs for military and civilian populations.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	DHS Technology Budget To Exceed $1B in 2005 An array of emerging technologies is the key to defending the United States from its enemies, according to Charles E. McQueary, undersecretary of homeland security for science and technology.
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.
National Defense January 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Pentagon Widens Search for New Technologies The Defense Department is expanding its search for new technologies beyond traditional industries and government agencies. Among the areas of interest are technologies to help detect and protect against chemical or biological attacks.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Feds Begin to Tackle the Vexing Problem of How to Defeat Homemade Bombs Congress' attention remains focused on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, but improvised explosive devices do not receive the same attention as the chemical, biological or nuclear threats.
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
National Defense June 2011 Eric Beidel	Industry, Academia Race to Create Drugs Against Biological Warfare On the heels of anthrax comes a string of deadly agents that scientists also fear can be used as weapons and spread with ease.
National Defense June 2010 Grace V. Jean	Chem-Bio Defense Budgets Set to Increase In Coming Years The Obama administration has made no secret of its support of chemical and biological defense programs.
National Defense December 2003 Geoff S. Fein	Chem-Bio Defense Policies Revisted Post-Iraq The industrial base responded remarkably well to the surge in demand for chemical and biological defense equipment in Operation Iraqi Freedom. But troops in the theater encountered problems operating equipment that had not been properly tested.
National Defense December 2003 Geoff S. Fein	Chem-Bio Defense Needs Common Standards Chemical and biological defense equipment is improving, but still is suffering from the lack of technical standards across industry and government agencies. Companies are focused on selling their technology, rather than combining forces and pushing the most promising concepts.
National Defense March 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services will share $275 million to expand the BioWatch program, improve a nationwide bio threat reporting system and upgrade food and animal inspections.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010	QinetiQ North America Developing Roving, Early-Warning WMD Detector for U.S. Army The program is designed to meet a stated Department of Defense need for a tactical chemical and biological defense, as well as an intelligent network that can communicate and direct sensors so they provide real-time notice of a threat.
Parameters Summer 2005 Harry S. Laver	Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment.
National Defense September 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Security Beat Vaccine Stockpiles Now Required by Law... Commission: Military Had No Warning During 9/11... Simulated Agent Mimics Bio-Terror Weapons... Cyber-security Hampered by Lack of Attention...
National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy	Military Officials Warn Al Qaeda Determined To Attack With WMD Most attacks probably would be small-scale, incorporating improvised delivery systems and easily produced chemicals, toxins or radiological substances.
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al.	Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 Hans Kobler	From DARPA to Main Street Technologies developed for Homeland Security are moving into the public sector.
National Defense February 2013 Valerie Insinna	Company Offers Chemical, Radiological Detection Training System The U.S. military has expressed interest in acquiring a training system that simulates chemical and radiological releases such as those created by "dirty bombs" and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.
National Defense December 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Courts Commercial Vendors to Help Defeat WMD Threats The Defense Threats Reduction Agency is looking toward non-traditional commercial suppliers for vaccines and systems capable of alerting personnel in case of a bio-warfare attack.
National Defense September 2007 Stew Magnuson	Chemical Detecting Robot Program Rolls Forward Explosive ordnance disposal robots have proven their worth in Iraq and Afghanistan by reducing their operators' exposure to improvised bombs. An Army program hopes to do the same for specialists who must enter buildings and caves to root out chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Research Agency Wants Help Solving The Seemingly Impossible The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a reputation for taking on challenges that sometimes seem to defy the laws of physics -- or at least common sense. Transparent Walls and Dirt... Building Simulators Without Computer Programmers... etc.
National Defense June 2007 Breanne Wagner	Government Contracts Focus on Vaccines, Emergency Response Since October 2006, 13 contracts have been awarded to industry and academia, ranging in value from $2.7 million to $28 million.
National Defense July 2009 Matthew Rusling	Specialized Chem-Bio Unit to Fully Stand Up in 2011 The Defense Department is beefing up the nations response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive attacks.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Redirects Priorities In Chemical-Biological Defense The Pentagon will broaden the scope of its chemical and biological defense programs, in an effort to prepare for future domestic emergencies, officials say.
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy	Army Lab Channels Expertise to Non-Traditional Areas When the United States invaded Iraq, the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center began tackling a host of problems that were far removed from traditional chemical or biological defense, such as roadside bombs.
National Defense July 2004 Joe Pappalardo	Military Bases Getting Protection Against WMD Attacks Up to 200 U.S. military bases will be equipped with chemical and biological detectors during the next several years, under a program that could cost as much as $1.3 billion.
Searcher March 2002 Eva Perkins	Bioterrorism Resources on the Internet: A Primer What is bioterrorism? Which organizations and governmental agencies publish in this area? Using the power of the beloved Internet, one can easily and quickly access a wealth of information. Here's how to do it...
National Defense November 2004 Harold Kennedy	WMD Defense Lacks Unified Command-Control Structure The Defense Department has assigned to multiple units the job of protecting the United States against attacks by weapons of mass destruction. These agencies, however, lack a central command and control structure.
National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson	New Approach to Biological Threat Detection Promises Savings for Defense, Homeland Security The nonprofit lab Battelle recently introduced an all-inclusive chemical-biological-explosive detector the size of a microwave oven that can detect airborne pathogens in minutes with recurring costs of about $1 per day.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 John McHale	Locked down, sensors everywhere Perimeters today are being protected by sensors that detect everything from x-ray scanners at checkpoints to cameras mounted on unmanned aircraft.
National Defense November 2005 Margaret Davidson	Biodefense Experts: Vaccines `At a Crossroads' Many of the companies seeking government funds for biodefense work are small firms with no experience in bringing a drug to market. And they face a significant challenge.
National Defense April 2009	Border Security The U.S. has limited ability to prevent dangerous materials from reaching the shores.
National Defense December 2014 Stew Magnuson	Army Takes Stock of Its Domestic Chem-Bio-Nuclear Response Capabilities More than a decade after the Army reluctantly took on the responsibility for responding to domestic chemical, biological and nuclear attacks or accidents, it has built a force of more than 18,000 dedicated personnel.
National Defense April 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Counterterrorism Office Seeks Array of Technologies Devices to defeat improvised bombs and chemical and biological weapons are among its most acute needs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	DHS Heads-up Initiative to Develop Revolutionary Homeland Security Technologies The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington is asking industry for revolutionary technologies to improve homeland security missions and operations.
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson	WMD Commission: 'We're Not Going Away' The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism is not being continued by the government, but the members are starting non-profit with the same mission.
Popular Mechanics October 16, 2006 Simon Cooper	North Korea: The Bigger (Non-Nuclear) Threat The consensus is that North Korea has developed anthrax, plague and botulism toxin as weapons, and has extensively researched at least six other germs including smallpox and typhoid.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Chem-Bio Sensors For Strykers Not Yet Perfected The Army may scale back plans to equip its new Stryker combat vehicles with advanced sensors that detect chemical agents while the vehicle is moving at high speeds.