Homeland Security

Historically, Bruhn NewTech has been a defense focused company. Its foundation lay in the NATO hazard Warning and Reporting doctrine, which over the decades has constantly evolved and manifested itself to deal with potential CBRN hazards. These are the prospective threats that face military service personnel in their out of area operations, although, less and less emphasis is placed on the capabilities of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) but more on the Low Level Radiation (LLR), Toxic Industrial Chemical (TIC), Toxic Industrial Materials (TIM) and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).

Our organization has always felt the crossover capability between managing a CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive) hazard in a military environment and dealing with a CBRNE incident in a civilian context. Doctrine and many principals differ between military and civil CBRNE incidents but the fundamental procedures are the same. That is to inform personnel of a potential hazardous area and what precautions can or shall be taken.

In the past Bruhn NewTech has explored the area of Homeland Security by producing software applications that bridged the gaps between a complete military application and a software product that could assist a civil authority when dealing with either a CBRN or conventional explosive incident. Most products also had the ability to assist in the case of HazMat (Hazardous Materials) related incidents. It has long been identified that Bruhn NewTech should adapt the competences it already has to look at new opportunities in the Homeland Security market.

There are a multitude of areas or segments that could be classed as Homeland Security, so the idea is to define the areas that are of interest where our solutions could provide the maximum impact in assisting incident managers or commanders.

Our ultimate goal is to work with our partners and distributors in different segments of Homeland Security to ensure that we can provide added value to the areas of hazard prediction, sensor integration and incident management.