Preliminary sectors
PRELIMINARY SECTORS
The Planning Group developed several preliminary Sectors and proposed baskets of major topic areas as a guide for papers:
1. CHEMICAL
Chair: Dr. David Moore, Senior Medical Market Manager, Battelle National Security Global Business, USA
Co-Chair:
a. Threats, Doctrine & Policy, Consequence Management, Countermeasures
b. Detection, Identification
c. Protection
d. Decontamination
e. Medical
2. NUCLEAR/RADIOLOGICAL
Chair: Dr. Ronald K. Chesser, Professor - Department of Biological Sciences, Director - Center for Environmental Radiation Studies, US
Co-Chair: Prof. Brenda Rogers, USA and Prof. Carleton Phillips, USA
a. Threats, Doctrine & Policy, Consequence Management, Countermeasures
b. Detection, Identification & Dosimetry, Active Interrogation Technologies
c. Protection
d. Decontamination
e. Medical
3. BIOLOGICAL
Chair: Dr. David Robinson, Sector Chair: Biological, Battelle Memorial Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
Co-Chair:
a. Biosafety & Biosecurity, Codes of Conduct
b. Threats, Doctrine & Policy, Consequence Management, Countermeasures
c. Protection
d. Decontamination
e. Medical
4. MODERN/ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE CBRN THREATS / INDUSTRY PROSPECTIVE
Chair: Terry R. Bromley, Senior Director, Marketing, Bracco – Healthcare Protectie Products Division, RSDecon, USA
Co-chairs: Daniel Katzeta, UK and Dr. Stefano Miorotti, Italy
a. Detection, dosimetry and analysis
b. Protection
c. Decontamination
d. Medicine
5. PROTECTIVE MATERIALS, CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT AGAINST CBRN THREATS
Chair: Prof.dr.sc. Zvonko Dragčević, Textile Technology Faculty, Zagreb, Croatia
Co-Chair:
a. Chemical
b. Biological
c. Nuclear and Radiological
6. CRISIS - CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT
Chair: LTC Jeffrey Allen, USA
Co-Chairs: Gen. Mate Laušić and prof.dr. Zvonko Orehovec, Croatia
a. Doctrine of CBRNE Defense (Civil Defense, Defense Support to Civil Authorities)
b. CBRNE Teams and Units
c. Evacuation and Rescue
d. Safety and Security (Civil safety and security companies and CBRN threat; education of civil population)
7. NON PROLIFERATION POLICY, COUNTERTERRORISM AND DUAL USE IN THE SCOPE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Chair: Dr. Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack, Chief of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs,
Co-Chair: Dr. Stef Stienstra, Netherlands
a. International law
b. Cooperation and obligation
c. Doctrine and plans
d. Border Security
e. Counterterrorism
8. EMERGING ISSUES & TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: Dr. Peter Leitner, USA
Co-Chair:
a. Nanotechnology (Promises/Problems)
b. Information sciences
c. Infrastructure
d. Organized Crime and WMD
9. INDUSTRY & TECHNOLOGY
Chair: (will be announced)
Co-Chair:
a. Threats to industry and industry as a threat
b. Critical industry segments and technologies
c. Best practices in industry
d. Detection, interrogation and safety models
e. HAZMAT technologies
10. TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS OF PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, DETECTION AND DECONTAMINATION METHODS, HEALTH MEASURES AND PROCEDURES IN CASE OF CBRN THREAT AND TERRORISM

























