Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks:

Protecting Buildings and Military Bases

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Size: 208 pages, 8 1/2 x 11

Publication Year:2005

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Committee on Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Sensors, National Research Council
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Over the last ten years, there has been growing concern about potential biological attacks on the nation s population and its military facilities. It is now possible to detect such attacks quickly enough to permit treatment of potential victims ...
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Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-6	(skim)
1 Background and Overview	7-12	(skim)
2 Scenarios, Defensive Concepts, and Detection Architectures	13-22	(skim)
3 Indoor and Outdoor Bioaerosol Backgrounds and Sampling Strategies	23-45	(skim)
4 Bioaerosol Samplings Systems for Near-Real-Time Detection	46-70	(skim)
5 Point and Standoff Detection Technologies	71-83	(skim)
6 Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Identification for Detect-to-Warn Applications	84-104	(skim)
7 Structure-Based Identification for Detect-to-Warn Applications	105-129	(skim)
8 Chemistry-Based Identification for Detect-to-Warn Applications	130-148	(skim)
9 Function-Based Detection	149-154	(skim)
10 Design Considerations for Detect-to-Warn Defensive Architectures	155-177	(skim)
11 Summary of Conlusions and a Path Forward	178-186	(skim)
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	187-193	(skim)
Appendix B Acronyms and Abbreviations	194-196	(skim)

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Over the last ten years, there has been growing concern about potential biological attacks on the nation 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 detect 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 detect 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.

Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks:

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