The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate will host a one-day Counter-Improvised Explosive Device industry outreach workshop on Dec. 10 in Arlington, Va. The workshop will cover the challenges associated with protecting Large Public Events (LPE) from Person-Borne IEDs, including needs and requirements, DHS program activities to develop and test LPE standoff countermeasure architectures, a unique testbed that has been developed for testing and evaluating countermeasure architectures, results and lessons learned from a first-generation countermeasure architecture at an LPE, concepts for in integrated countermeasure sensing and interdiction architecture for LPEs, system integration concepts, and how to participate in DHS test and evaluation activities. Contact: Greg Holter, 509-375-3967, [email protected].
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