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- [Fiona] How can we get
the future of technology

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into the field faster
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to help Warfighters?

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- [Brian] A Joint Chemical
Agent Detector or JCAD

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alarms as it detects an aerosol plume

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similar to a poisonous gas
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from an enemy attack.

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This is just one component
of a test and demonstration

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hosted and supported
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by the Air Force Civil Engineers Center's

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Emergency Management Division

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at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.

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The overall project verifying
the ability to network JCADs

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will exponentially decrease
Warfighter exposure

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to these types of airborne dangers.

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- I think it's fantastic.

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We bring the experts in
to help our experts out

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deliver some existing as well
as some emerging technologies

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that we can provide more capability

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to our CBRN emergency managers

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while they're out in the field.

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- [Brian] In this novel
early-chemical-warning project

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of the Integrated Early Warning

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Advanced Technology Demonstration,
AFOTEC is partnering

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with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency

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and the U.S. Army Research, Development

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and Engineering Command

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to demonstrate a wirelessly linked network

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consisting of several JCADs
around an installation.

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- It's one thing when the JCAD alerts you.

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You know that, okay,
something bad is happening.

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But can we start doing prediction

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before they actually start alarming,

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not of one sensor but the entire network?

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- The overall objective of the project

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that we're working here with
PACAF at Tyndall Air Force Base

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is to make it so that we
don't have to put the Airmen

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in harm's way to go downrange

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and investigate what might've happened.

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- [Brian] Using state-of-the-art software,

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meteorological sensors,
and radio communication,

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this combination of
technology and human expertise

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allows for, like its name suggests,

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a Warfighter life-saving

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early-warning system.
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- The Integrated Early Warning

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Advanced Technology Demonstration

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is one of the priority areas
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right now in the DoD
Chem Bio Defense Program.

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- So, if we had a chemical sensor network,

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could we buy a commander
more decision time?

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- It provides them the
safety and security.

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They can work from remote
locations and still provide us

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that capability to identify
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any hazards that may exist.

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- [Brian] For AFIMSC,

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- Dissemination off.
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- [Brian] I'm Brian Goddin.