To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. EDUCATION AND TRAINING HOMELAND SEC INDUSTRY NEWS INDUSTRY ROSTER Robert Coleman has resigned as president and chief operating officer of ManTech, while remaining on its board of directors. …SkyTerra has appointed Gary Epstein its executive vice president of law and regulation. …Axis Communications has named John Bartolac its government business development manager. …SRC has named Matthew Pushkin the new assistant vice president for cyber. …Pixim has hired Tracey Hups as manager for worldwide marketing communications. …Michael France was hired as manager of regulatory affairs for the National Air Transportation Association. TERT takes toxic approach to emergency response The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), Anniston, Ala., the only facility in the nation where civilian emergency responders can train in an actual nerve agent environment, has announced that it is offering the Technical Emergency Response Training (TERT) course. This training experience takes place at the CDP’s Chemical, Ordnance Biological and Radiological Training Facility, the COBRATF . The TERT course enables responders to effectively prevent, respond to and recover from incidents involving chemical weapons and other hazardous materials. The TERT course offers an opportunity to receive operational defensive training that’s necessary to respond to acts of terrorism. The course also includes response activities associated not only with terrorism but also all-hazards events caused by accidents or man-made disasters. (Source:CDP) Oneida Nation receives CDP pandemic training A team from the Center for Domestic Preparedness, Anniston, Ala., has delivered a threeday pandemic awareness course to the Oneida Indian Nation on nation lands in central New York. The Nation established several emergency response protocols in writing and took the Pandemic Influenza Planning and Preparedness (PIPP) course to promote pandemic awareness as well as gain insight for other emergency responses. The PIPP course is designed to train responders from multiple disciplines, and assist them with their strengths and weaknesses during an emergency. The final exercise in the course encompasses training from the planning process and tests everyone’s ability to respond during a fictitious pandemic influenza in a community. The Oneida Nation is comprised of 1,000 tribal members and employs nearly 5,000 people. Nation officials estimate that there are about 12,000 visitors per day to Nation facilities, averaging more than four million visitors per year. (Source:CDP) LCN e-learning Course on Door Openers Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Carmel,Ind.,a provider of safety and security products and services and owner of LCN, maker of door closers, is offering a Web-based course covering the basics of the role door closers play in controlling the door. With the e-learning course,security directors, maintenance personnel, facility managers, locksmiths, distributors and security dealers can learn about door control according to their own schedule and from wherever they have access to the Internet. The self-paced format covers the five critical needs of an opening, including durability, safety, security and design. The online course provides interactive learning of the features and benefits of heavy duty (institutional) and medium duty (commercial) products. Students learn about effective LCN door closer applications, installations, adjustments and servicing. (Source: Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies) Center for Spectator Sports Security Management conducts workshops The Center for Spectator Sports Security Management, Hattiesburg, Miss., is offering workshops in sports event security training. The first workshop, at Jacksonville, Fla., Municipal Stadium, scheduled for April 7 and 8, kicked off the series offered through the University of Southern Mississippi center and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. More than 1,000 intercollegiate institutions have been invited to receive the center’s sports event security training at National Football League stadiums across the country throughout 2009 and 2010.Venues include Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans,the Georgia Dome in Atlanta and Cleveland Browns Stadium. (Source: Center for Spectator Sports Security Management) 20 May 2009 | Homeland Security Today Magazine This month’s issue is now available online at…