National Domestic Preparedness Consortium

Version 2 of New Mexico Tech’s Drone Assessment and Response Tactics (DART) course recently was certified. This course series, available in both residential and mobile deliveries, was revised to reflect significant legal and regulatory changes involving counter-UAS operations. The framework provided by the Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act…

Baton Rouge, LA — Law enforcement officers across Pennsylvania now have expanded access to nationally recognized DHS/FEMA-certified training designed to strengthen readiness for today’s most complex threats. Through newly granted approval by the Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training Commission (MPOETC), Pennsylvania officers who are Act 120-certified can receive in-service Continuing Law Enforcement Education (CLEE)…

College Station and Richardson, Texas — As part of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium’s (NDPC) mission to strengthen the Nation’s preparedness and response capabilities, Counterterrorism Operations Support (CTOS) program, in partnership with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), recently delivered PER-348: Response to a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD) – Overview and Implementation of the…

At New Mexico Tech, the EMRTC first responders training team is leveraging AI tools to create custom decorative images for their courses, enhancing the visual quality of their training modules. In the past, finding high-quality, relevant images for course slides was both a time-consuming and difficult process. Challenges include navigating copyright restrictions and sometimes the…

As part of recent recertification of the Drone Assessment and Response Tactics (DART) course, New Mexico Tech/EMRTC has developed the revised UAS Response Model. This visual indicator presents the key actions to implement when encountering UAS activity, serving as both a teaching aid and an operational reference for addressing UAS threats, with a focus on…

As part of New Mexico Tech’s upcoming recertification of the Drone Assessment and Response Tactics (DART) course—expected to be finalized by October—a new tool is being introduced to help participants better visualize the threat landscape posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The newly developed UAS Bomb Standoff Card is a compact, quick-reference guide that adapts…

The Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) at New Mexico Tech is expanding its innovative training capabilities by bringing its Initial Law Enforcement Response to Suicide Bombing Attacks (ILERSBA) course to the New York Police Department (NYPD), integrating virtual reality (VR) tools for the first time in a mobile delivery format. For several years,…

The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup presents unique challenges to American cities’ emergency responders. The World Cup’s global scale, multi-match structure, length of time, and cultural impact make it fundamentally different from other large-scale events these jurisdictions may have hosted in the past. As such, LSU NCBRT/ACE has been working with responders in each city…

New Mexico Tech’s cutting-edge Virtual Preparedness and Explosive Response (ViPER) center is setting a new standard for how first responders are prepared. This facility, overviewed in this brief promotional video, is designed to deliver an incredibly immersive and realistic training experience. Housed in a 90×80 ft. warehouse within New Mexico Tech’s explosives range, ViPER boasts…

From the eastern-most U.S. territory of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands to Guam in the far west, EMRTC delivered mobile courses to all five of the U.S. inhabited territories during the 2024 calendar year. The past year of mobile courses taught on all five U.S. territories began in January with the DART course delivered…