CORRECTING and REPLACING Sandia launches Chem/Bio Program Web Site; Detection, facilities protection, urban monitoring among technical programs featured.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers CORRECTION...by Sandia BIOWIRE2K LIVERMORE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2003 In BW5591 issued Oct. 16, 2003: Headline of release should read: Sandia launches Chem/Bio Program Web Site (sted Sandia launches Chem/Bio Program Web Site Detection, facilities protection, urban monitoring among technical programs featured). The corrected release reads: SANDIA LAUNCHES CHEM/BIO PROGRAM WEB SITE DETECTION, FACILITIES PROTECTION, URBAN MONITORING AMONG TECHNICAL PROGRAMS FEATURED Addressing the need to provide information to the public on an important national security capability, Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New has launched an external web site devoted to its Chemical/Biological Defense ("Chem/Bio") program. The site is located at www.ca.sandia.gov/chembio and serves as a prelude prelude (prā`l  d), musical composition of no universal style, usually for the keyboard. It was originally used to precede a ceremony and later a second, often larger piece. to a new, revamped page Sandia is developing that will focus on its wider range of homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland securityDepartment of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States activities. The new Chem/Bio page offers technical information and background on: -- Technology projects at Sandia such as MicroChemLab, a hand-held device which detects toxic chemical Any chemical which, through its chemical action on life processes, can cause death, temporary incapacitation, or permanent harm to humans or animals. This includes all such chemicals, regardless of their origin or of their method of production, and regardless of whether they are produced and biological agents, and SnifferSTAR(TM), a chemical sensor that mounts on a drone aircraft for remote surveillance of battlefield situations -- Facility protection, including Sandia's PROACT PROACT Neurology A clinical trial–Prolyse in Acute Cerebral Thromboembolism (Protective and Responsive Options for Airport Counter-Terrorism) program, which focuses on operational plans and capabilities designed to guard against chemical or biological terrorist threats -- Urban monitoring tools to develop and deploy sustainable environmental monitoring capabilities for metropolitan areas, such as Sandia's Weapons of Mass Destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or Decision Analysis Center (WMD-DAC), created to assist government officials and other decision-makers involved in emergency response -- Systems analysis studies, which examine modeling of facilities, assessment of technology readiness for insertion insertion n. the addition of language at a place within an existing typed or written document, which is always suspect unless initialled by all parties. into deployed systems, simulations, and alternative architectures for both defensive and responsive systems The new web page also features information on Sandia employment opportunities in engineering, biology, chemistry, computer science, and other applicable disciplines, as well as links to Sandia industry and government partners. Visitors to the site are also offered direct links to Sandia technical personnel who manage aspects of the Chem/Bio program. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness. |
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