Background The Top Officials Exercise (TOPOFF) is a congressionally mandated biennial cycle of seminars, planning events, and national exercises designed to strengthen the Unites States’ capacity to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and ...
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Harrison Ford Incident With Passenger Plane at California Airport, February 13, 2017
Background An Aviat A-1C Husky, flown by actor Harrison Ford, was involved in an incident during landing at Orange County-John Wayne Airport, California. The pilot had been cleared to land on runway 20L but touched down on the parallel taxiway ...
BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE – Additional Information That Congress May Find Useful as It Considers DOD’s Advanced Development and Manufacturing Capability, July 2017
Background From the report: DOD’s ADM facility is to specialize in manufacturing biologics, with a focus on producing antibodies and vaccines. Until recently, the manufacture of biologic medical countermeasures has required a single facility ...
Intellipedia Entries
Background Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC). It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006 and consists of three ...
Military Intervention in Civil Disturbances
Background The following documents have been released regarding how the military can “help” during certain civilian disturbances. Operation Garden Plot Operation Garden Plot is a general U.S. Army and National Guard plan to respond ...
