DS Working Group

The Academic Chemical Security Initiative mitigates the chemical threat associated with chemical facilities and inventories at universities by educating faculty, staff and students about the FBI's Weapon of Mass Destruction mission and chemical counter-terrorism programs.

The Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction is a security initiative announced at the 2002 G8 summit. It entails a pledge by members to commit $20 billion, over a ten-year period, towards the elimination and security of some weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Russia and former soviet states. The agreement was initiated against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks and specifically aimed to deny terrorists access to WMDs. Some of the stated priorities include: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons, dismantling decommissioned nuclear... Read more Created: February 10, 2017

Global Biorisk Management Institute (GBMI) was founded in 2008 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Foundation. Our mission is providing internationally accredited, accessible, and sustainable biosafety, biosecurity, and public health preparedness training to enhance worldwide biosafety and biosecurity capacity. In fulfilling this mission we seek to:

• Foster an internationally credentialed biosafety profession
• Improve the accessibility and... Read more Created: December 08, 2016

It is our pleasure to announce the sixth International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, IMED 2016 to be held in Vienna, Austria from 4–7 November 2016. For those whose work deals with threats from infectious agents, IMED 2016 will once again bring leading scientists, clinicians and policy makers to Vienna to present new knowledge and breakthroughs and discuss how to discover, detect, understand, prevent and respond to outbreaks of emerging pathogens.

Since the last IMED in 2014, newly emerged diseases and outbreaks of familiar ones have continued to challenge us. The... Read more Created: November 04, 2016

The Chemical Equipment Outreach (CEO) Group is a multi-agency initiative to form partnerships with equipment manufacturers and resellers to protect the American people from the proliferation of chemical weapons (CW).  The CEO group is a working group consisting of manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and online-resellers who work together to address the emerging threat of a clandestine CW lab being created in the homeland or abroad.  They advise the FBI and relay their concerns regarding suspicious inquiries, purchases, and trends that may affect the national security of the United... Read more Created: October 25, 2016

The Symposium on Export Control of Emerging Biotechnologies is being held to develop  recommendations for improving export controls on emerging dual-use biotechnologies. Attendees will help identify relevant emerging biotechnologies and assess export control options for those found to be of greatest concern. Findings will be documented in a non-attributable report and delivered to organizations that develop and implement export control regulations at the national and international level.

The symposium is being held from October 18th through October 20th in Monterey, California at... Read more Created: October 12, 2016

The G-7 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction has the initiative to prevent terrorist and states from acquiring or developing weapons of mass destruction.  The Chemical Security Sub-Working Group (CSSWG) is focused on chemical aspects of the WMD threat.  The objectives of the CSSWG include the following: 

• prevention, detection, and response to the acquisition and use of chemical weapons
• enhance global chemical security and improve awareness, sharing, and coordination chemical security strategies