After four years of development, EMRTC is now offering Drone Assessment and Response Tactics (DART) courses designed to train emergency personnel to respond to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) threats. The first course was piloted in 2019. Currently three DART courses are available to provide emergency personnel with the knowledge and necessary skills to detect, identify, …
Sheriff’s Deputies in Collier County, Florida applied training gained from New Mexico Tech’s PRSBI-Tactical course. Several graduates of the PRSBI-Tactical course were assigned for service of a search warrant on a child pornography suspect. While performing the search they noticed numerous plastic tubes and empty cardboard which were recognized as items used in the production …
Rather than evoke images of a pretty bell-shaped flower, since 1999 the term Columbine triggers memories of an active school shooting involving two troubled Colorado high school students who killed 13 and wounded over 20 others before turning their weapons on themselves. While most people recall this tragedy as an active shooter event and Columbine …
Dan Langford is no stranger to transitions. In 2016 he made a major one, as he shifted his career path, retiring after 28 years of service from the Westchester County Police Department in New York to his current role as subject matter expert for New Mexico Tech’s First Responder Training Program. To this role he …
As vaccination rates increase and COVID spread decreases, New Mexico Tech (NMT) Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) has begun reopening residential training courses both on the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro and at the Playas Research and Training Center (PRTC) in southwest New Mexico.
The first phase is currently being implemented. Both …
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