Sensor systems for biological agent attacks : protecting buildings and military bases / Committee on Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Sensors, Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Sensors.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioterrorism--United States--Prevention.

Bioterrorism.

Biological warfare--United States--Prevention.

Biological warfare.

Terrorism--United States--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Civil defense--United States.

Civil defense.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Protecting buildings and military bases

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the last ten years, there has been growing concern about potential biological attacks on the nation (TM)s population and its military facilities. It is now possible to detect such attacks quickly enough to permit treatment of potential victims prior to the onset of symptoms. The capability to oedetect to warn , that is in time to take action to minimize human exposure, however, is still lacking. To help achieve such a capability, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) asked the National Research Council (NRC) to assess the development path for oedetect to warn sensors systems. This report presents the results of this assessment including analysis of scenarios for protecting facilities, sensor requirements, and detection technologies and systems. Findings and recommendations are provided for the most probable path to achieve a detect-to-warn capability and potential technological breakthroughs that could accelerate its attainment.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Background and Overview""; ""2 Scenarios, Defensive Concepts, and Detection Architectures""; ""3 Indoor and Outdoor Bioaerosol Backgrounds and Sampling Strategies""; ""4 Bioaerosol Sampling Systems for Near-Real-Time Detection""; ""5 Point and Standoff Detection Technologies""; ""6 Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Identification for Detect-to-Warn Applications""; ""7 Structure-Based Identification for Detect-to-Warn Applications""; ""8 Chemistry-Based Identification for Detect-to-Warn Applications""

""9 Function-Based Detection""""10 Design Considerations for Detect-to-Warn Defensive Architectures""; ""11 Summary of Conclusions and a Path Forward""; ""Appendixes""; ""A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""B Acronyms and Abbreviations""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610262908

9780309165334

0309165334

9781280262906

1280262907

9780309548328

0309548322

OCLC:

923275856