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Washington Region Ready to Move Aggressively After DHS Gives Nod for STC Program

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

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The Washington, DC area emergency management and response community already has key ingredients in place to enable it to move forward relatively quickly an enhanced radiological and nuclear threat detection architecture after being tapped this month by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to become part of the Securing the Cities (STC) program. Working with area fire and police chiefs and others, the National Capital Region (NCR) has had a Protective Radiological and Nuclear Detection (PRND) Committee in place for…

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