ADVISORY/Governor Rick Perry Holds Press Conference Following Bioterrorism & Disease Response System Briefing At Brooks Air Force Base.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (Feb. 28) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHO: Governor Rick Perry, Commissioner David Dewhurst -
Chairman, Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security;
Commissioner Eduardo Sanchez - Texas Commissioner of
Health and State Health Officer, TX Department of Health;
Brig. Gen. Lloyd Dodd, Jr., Commander, 311th Human Systems
Wing; and Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds, Commander,
Aeronautical Systems Center.
WHAT: Lightweight Epidemiology Advanced Detection & Emergency
Response System (LEADERS) Briefing
WHERE: Brooks Air Force Base
Building 150
Lobby
San Antonio, TX
WHEN: Thursday, February 28, 2002
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
About LEADERS Consortium: The Lightweight Epidemiology Advanced Detection & Emergency Response System (LEADERS) Consortium is comprised of leading technology companies including EYT EYT Enjoy Yourself Tonight , formerly Ernst & Young Technologies (Chantilly, VA); ScenPro (Richardson, TX); Oracle (Redwood Shores, CA); and Idaho Technologies (Salt Lake City, UT). The LEADERS Consortium was founded in 1993 with support from the United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. (USAF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. government agency administered by the Department of Defense (see Defense, United States Department of). (DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. (CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation ) in response to the need for a uniform system to effectively detect, track and respond to biological warfare, significant disease outbreaks and natural disasters. |
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