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Designed for biosurveillance/BW identification Laboratory Managers. Briefings from mission-partners and biosurveillance community members will give context to policy and mission scope. Laboratory and tabletop exercise will focus discussion on turning analytical results into answers that can support decision-making.

Cost: $3,000 per participant

Location: NSRI National Capitol Region Facility

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Students will be trained in biosurveillance sampling techniques and develop biosurveillance sampling plans. Teams will pack-out, travel to the CONUS target site, and conduct their sampling operations. Students will pack and ship samples to the NCR Lab where they will conduct analysis of the samples in their laboratory space and glovebox. Students will produce a biosurveillance assessment report for the area of sample operations.

Cost: $8,000 per participant

Location: CONUS Field Site and NSRI National Capitol Region Facility

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An operationally focused laboratory intensive course that focuses on troubleshooting, sample preparation, data analysis, and results integration. Students will be responsible for their own lab space and glovebox to work through numerous problem sample scenarios.

Cost: $3,000 per participant

Location: NSRI National Capitol region Facility

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This lab intensive course walks through the technology relevant in understanding the data and troubleshooting through practical analysis. Students will utilize their own lab space, organizational protocols, and gloveboxes to work through numerous problem sets similar to those expected in real-world scenarios.

Cost: $5,500 per participant

Location: NSRI National Capitol Region Facility

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This course will focus on the technology of PCR and implementation of the principles beyond the JBAIDS platform. Despite the platform’s near departure, the concepts and analysis of real-time PCR will continue to be relevant and this legacy course will ensure operators remain knowledgeable and capable in designing and analyzing PCR. Students will utilize their own lab space, organizational protocols, and gloveboxes to work through numerous problem samples including sample preparation, DNA extraction, and data analysis.

Cost: $4,000 per participant

Location: NSRI National Capitol Region Facility

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This course will focus on field application, procedural use, and data interpretation of the MinION WGS. Though, primarily a laboratory course, exploring the utility and validity of data analysis will form the basis of discussions with the intent of identifying follow-on recommendations. Students will use individual lab space and gloveboxes to prepare samples and use MinION to identify/classify potential biothreats.

Cost: $5,5000 per participant

Location: NSRI National Capitol Region Facility

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A hardware store inspired laboratory is limited only by the creativity of the designer. As such, no two makeshift laboratories will look identical. It is critical for the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) response teams to understand the fundamentals of chemistry laboratory techniques to analyze the setup, assess the safety, and determine the chemical processes occurring upon entering a makeshift laboratory.

Cost: $4,000 per seat

Location: NSRI National Capitol Region Facility

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The Biological Production course is a four-day instruction that introduces foundational concepts of biological agent production and expands on these by requiring students to design, build and produce biological simulants using off-the-shelf hardware. The course focuses on growth, concentration, drying and milling of a spore forming bacteria (Bacillus thuringiensis). The curriculum leverages academic instruction to convey the process requirements and general considerations when designing and building biological production operations.

Cost: $4,000 per seat

Location: NSRI National Capitol Region Facility

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NSRI's PBA course is a blended two-day course that combines practical hands-on learning training stations with classroom instruction. Students will become familiar with the hazards and threats associated with synthetic opioids. This course is designed to improve the safety and effectiveness of Weapons of Mass Destruction – Civil Support Teams (WMD-CST) when supporting their response partners, who respond to incidents involving PBA’s.

Cost: $2,000 per seat

Location: NSRI National Capital Region Facility

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The intent of this course is to fill the gap in knowledge that exists between trained EOD Operators/Bomb Technicians and first responders. An awareness of homemade explosives (HME) IED’s is critical for first responders, as they are often the first ones to encounter the threat of such substances and devices.

The course is designed to promote awareness in order to enable early recognition and an appropriate response by the discoverer of HME mixtures, precursor chemicals, IED’s or IED components. As a part of the course, participants will handle inert HME mixture samples. Additionally, Mock IED’s with a variety of switches will be demonstrated in order to enhance the hands-on learning of participants. Finally, participants will be introduced to a mock HME lab to give them an Idea of what equipment might be found on site.

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Contact Dan Polanski, Deputy Director, Field Operations & Training
(770) 231-2905
dpolanski@nsri.nebraskaresearch.gov

This is a 3-day Intermediate Improvised Explosives course. The course combines 8 hours of classroom instruction with 16 hours of hands-on learning. Course is designed to improve the safety and effectiveness of CST members, EOD Technicians, Special Operations Forces, Law Enforcement Personnel and Intelligence Analysts by giving them a greater awareness of improvised explosive (HME) manufacture. Course objectives include recognition of HME operations, understanding the hazards of precursor chemicals and improvised explosives, crude field identification methods, desensitization techniques, and comparison of HME sensitivity and performance to standard explosives.

Location: Albuquerque, NM

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Contact Dan Polanski, Deputy Director, Field Operations & Training
(770) 231-2905
dpolanski@nsri.nebraskaresearch.gov

This course is an advanced, high-paced, hands on, class. It combines 8 hours of classroom instruction with 32 hours of hands-on learning. Course is designed to improve the safety and effectiveness of CST members, EOD Technicians, Special Operators and Intelligence Analysts by giving them a greater awareness of improvised explosive (HME) manufacture. Course objectives include recognition of HME operations and precursors, understanding the hazards of precursor chemicals and improvised explosives, field identification methods, and comparison of HME sensitivity and performance relative to standard military and commercial explosives.

Location: Albuquerque, NM

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Contact Dan Polanski, Deputy Director, Field Operations & Training
(770) 231-2905
dpolanski@nsri.nebraskaresearch.gov

This course provides the knowledge and skills for First Responders to not only identify potential explosive threats but identify the key components critical for determining response procedures. This course provides a comprehensive overview of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) for Civil Support Team Members (MIL), law enforcement (LE), fire, to assist in the execution of their duties. It covers a brief history of the use of IEDS and their evolution as a terrorist attack weapon and, methods. Participants will be provided with explosives familiarization, to include recognition of commercial, military and homemade explosives, as well as their function and uses. The class will further provide IED familiarization, to include information on the composition of an IED and the various sources of information available for the construction of IEDS. Additionally, participants will gain information on bomb threats and search procedures to include evaluating the credibility of a bomb threat, recommendations on the development of a search team and proper search procedures.

Attendees will participate in classroom lecture and practical labs to understand how IEDS function. Students will be exposed to practical exercises, focusing on the identification of an array of IEDS, their components and triggering mechanisms. The course will guide emergency personnel through the attack cycle in relation to the IED manufacturing process while identifying points of observable activity that can be communicated to emergency responders.

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Contact Dan Polanski, Deputy Director, Field Operations & Training
(770) 231-2905
dpolanski@nsri.nebraskaresearch.gov