Necessity is the mother of invention. When the U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) School's Joint Experimentation and Analysis Division (JEAD) needed to find a way to get ...

DARPA has awarded contracts to FLIR Systems, Leidos, and Charles River Analytics to develop new kit to protect soldiers and responders against chemical and biological (CB) threats. The Personalized ...

First responders to the Ebola threat in Dallas and New Haven, Conn. have used protection suits developed by Vandalia-based Lion Apparel. Company CEO Steve Schwartz said this week that the Lion brand ...

Researchers at Stanford (Calif.) University are developing a cooling system to better regulate body temperature for healthcare teams working long hours in protective suits during infectious disease ...