General Physics Corporation Contracts with Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security to Train Regional Hazardous Material Response Teams.ELKRIDGE, Md. -- Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GPX GPX - Early system on UNIVAC II. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). ), recently contracted with the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States (OKOHS) to provide technical assistance training and services to 11 Regional Hazardous Materials Response teams in various locations throughout the State. The training is being provided through the Domestic Preparedness Equipment Technical Assistance Program (DPETAP DPETAP Domestic Preparedness Equipment Technical Assistance Program ), a Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States (DHS DHS Department of Homeland Security (USA) DHS Department of Human Services DHS Department of Health Services DHS Demographic and Health Surveys DHS Dirhams (Morocco national currency) ) sponsored assistance program. Under the Oklahoma contract, DPETAP instructors/technicians will provide on-site training in the operation, capabilities, limitations, and field maintenance of a standardized suite of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE CBRNE Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Explosive CBRNE chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives (US DoD) CBRNE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Enhanced Conventional Weapons ) detection, protection, and decontamination decontamination /de·con·tam·i·na·tion/ (de?kon-tam-i-na´shun) the freeing of a person or object of some contaminating substance, e.g., war gas, radioactive material, etc. de·con·tam·i·na·tion n. equipment. More than 450 Oklahoma Regional CBRNE Response Team members are expected to participate in the training. OKOHS is using grant monies supplied by DHS to fund the training delivery. Gary Davis, OKOHS Training & Exercise Coordinator, said of the upcoming training, "This TA (technical assistance) training will be a valuable asset to the OKOHS regional response system. We have talked to several Oklahoma and other state responder agencies who have received TA from DPETAP that said the TA they received was great." Ed Caldwell, DPETAP Program Manager for GP, said, "It is a privilege to work with OKOHS to help meet their operational readiness The capability of a unit/formation, ship, weapon system, or equipment to perform the missions or functions for which it is organized or designed. May be used in a general sense or to express a level or degree of readiness. Also called OR. See also combat readiness. needs. The ability for state and local governments to use grant funds to contract directly with GP gives us a great deal of flexibility to assist them with their all threats/hazards capabilities." GP staffs and operates DPETAP under contract with the U.S. Army's Pine Bluff Arsenal The Pine Bluff Arsenal is an active military arsenal, that stores 12.5% of the nation's obsolete chemical weapons. In an incident after WWII, several captured German rockets containing nerve agents were accidentally launched into the surrounding countryside. . DPETAP is the DHS on-staff contracted equipment technical assistance provider for the Department. GP recently won a competitive procurement to continue to staff and operate the program, a role it has held since 1999. DPETAP has been providing CBRNE detection, protection, and decontamination equipment technical assistance services to the nation's emergency responder community for more than seven years, training more than 78,000 responders in 46 states and two territories. About GP GP is the principal operating subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE:GPX). GP is a global performance improvement solutions provider of training and e-Learning solutions, management consulting and engineering services. Through its Sandy Corporation division, GP provides custom sales training solutions. GP's solutions improve the effectiveness of organizations by delivering innovative and superior training, consulting and business improvement services, customized to meet the specific needs of its clients. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, manufacturing, process and energy industries, and other commercial and government customers. Additional information may be found at www.gpworldwide.com. We make statements in this press release that are considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are not guarantees of our future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause our actual performance or achievements to be materially different from those we project. For a full discussion of these risks, uncertainties and factors, we encourage you to read our documents on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those set forth in our periodic reports under the forward-looking statements and risk factors sections. Except as required by law, we do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. |
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