Defense Threat Reduction Agency.The Nuclear Technologies Directorate of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (or DTRA) is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) whose primary function is to analyze potential threats to the United States, both homeland and abroad, and provide contingency plans for all such is hosting an industry day on Dec. 4 at its headquarters at Fort Belvoir, VA. Agency leaders will discuss the future direction of its technology development programs to fill key technology gaps. NT's mission is to research, develop, and demonstrate technologies and capabilities to mitigate the threat and/or effects of nuclear and radiological events; and to enhance the safety, security, survivability sur·viv·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment. 2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness. , and performance of U.S. nuclear assets and facilities. Participation in this event is restricted to U.S. citizens and U.S. owned companies. The afternoon breakout sessions are: * Nuclear Detection (active and passive) (Unclassified un·clas·si·fied adj. 1. Not placed or included in a class or category: unclassified mail. 2. ) * Nuclear Survivability (Unclassified) * Modeling & Simulation of Nuclear Weapons Effects (Unclassified) * Radiation Hardening of Microelectronics (Unclassified) * Nuclear Forensics See computer forensics. (two sessions, one Secret, one Unclassified) * Disablement of Nuclear Weapons (Secret-Restricted Data) You must RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. no later than Nov. 26 to ntindustryday@dtra.mil with Tour company name and the full name(s) of those representatives planning to attend, affirmation of U.S. citizenship, and indication of which breakout sessions you would like to attend. |
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