Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium

2014 Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium
Advancing CBRN Response, Defense & Technology Readiness
March 17 – 18, 2014 | Mary M Gates Learning Center – Alexandria, VA

DSI’s Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military and civilian organizations can come together for actionable discussions and debate. The symposium’s overall theme will focus on Consequence Management For Joint CBRN Defense Training & Readiness and the changing budget landscape for Joint CBRN Readiness, technology and supporting Industry.

2014 Keynotes & Speakers:
Dr. J. Ben Petro - Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs

Kenneth A Myers - Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Deborah Shuping - Chief, CBRND Test and Evaluation Division, Deputy Under Secretary of the Army, Test and Evaluation

COL Ken Shaw - Deputy Commander, Clinical Support Services Ft. Belvoir Community Hospital

William B. Daitch - Assistant Director, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, DHS, National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center

Paul G Kudarauskas - Regional Liaison, CBRN CMAT ASPECT Program

DSI’s Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium will provide the latest updates from key organizations involved Consequence Management addressing new objectives in equipping multi-mission forces and specialized units with CBRN defense equipment to enable assistance to state and local governments in response to and recovery from the effects of a CBRN event.

You can expect to hear from OSD and policy makers, homeland security leadership and local counterparts on, establishing medical countermeasures (MCM) pipeline from requirements definition, through Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and FDA approval, to manufacturing and distribution. Developing synergistic, technologically advanced environmental surveillance and point-of need diagnostic capabilities against CBRN threats to enable force protection decisions. As well as risk-based planning and decision-making processes within the Enterprise