CBRNEApproaches to international consequence management for CBRNE incidents

The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences, through a grant sponsored by NIST’s Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES), is organizing an effort to understand the metrics and measures that are needed to develop standards of response that will support the basic capabilities of a country or region to respond to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) incident. A workshop will be held in the Washington, D.C. area in early 2013, and it will be open to all interested parties, including from other nations. NIST says that the project seeks to accomplish the following:

• Identify approaches to understanding baseline conditions of response to international CBRNE events
• Exchange ideas about how to document metrics or measures of response to international CBRNE events
• Discuss existing and new paths or platforms to share best practices, current research, seminal documents and relevant approaches to increase interoperability across the USG for response to international CBRNE events
• Establish a forum for multiple agencies of the U.S. government to exchange information on issues related to international CBRNE response

This effort is a first step toward a common approach to developing standards of response and strengthening interoperability between the United States and partner nations responding to major CBRNE incidents.

To receive further information and for updates the workshop, please complete a pre-registration form here.