The committee will come to order. Id like to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For your continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause anything from casually and incapacitation to mass destruction. In april of 2019, a technician was arrested after stealing three radioactive devices from his work place in
The committee will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For our continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction, and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause anything from casually and incapacitation to mass destruction. In april of 2019, a technician was arrested after stealing three radioactive devices from his work place in
Next, a look at weapons of mass destruction and their potential impact on health with representatives from Homeland Security. The committee will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For our continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction, and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause everything from mass casualties and in camp a
Saying i have a problem but being proactive how can we help. And the ada program but also to ensure that were selling other programs and making businesses aware of other programs. The office of Small Business which, supervisor, i know you were a leader in helping to create, continues to provide services to Small Businesses another key area where our Small Business team is focussed is on the implementation of outreach workshops designed specifically to address appropriate specific programs like the ada program and i want to spend a second talking about how we designed this program. This really came out of supervisors, you know well, many times just sending a letter to get a letter with all this intimidating language citing statute and with the support of all 3 of you supervisors weve implemented a program and expanding the program that works with these Small Businesses to provide information about what they need to grow and be successful and we conducted a number of bilingual workshops