CBRN detector training and simulation into 2011

Argon personnel attended more than a dozen exhibitions in 2010:

• January: 2010 CST/CERP Commanders Conference [Tempe, AZ, USA]
• February: DEFEXPO [New Delhi, India]
• March: NATO International CBRN Workshop [Brussels, Belgium]
• April: USAF Global Medical Readiness Symposium [Orlando, FL, USA]
• June: CBW Symposium [Stockholm, Sweden], IRPA Congress [Helsinki, Finland], Joint CBRN Conference [Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, USA]
• August: DoD Fire and Emergency Services Conference [Chicago, IL, USA]
• October: ASSISTEX III [Rades, Tunisia]
• November: EMEX [San Antonio, TX, USA], CBRNe Convergence [Orlando, FL, USA], 2010 ISOE Symposium [Cambridge, UK], 1st Symposium on CBRN Defence Capabilities [Berlin, Germany]

A number of our international representatives (including 3 of the new companies appointed in 2010) also exhibited Argon simulators at further events in their own territories, took Argon equipment to meetings with their customers, and joined with Argon to make demonstrations to end user organisations in their country.

Promoting the message of Training Without Risk, PlumeSIM was extensively deployed during 2010 to demonstrate the growing range of Argon chemical and radiological simulation instruments. The high level of positive reaction to this wide area tactical CBRN field exercise system has clearly confirmed that the requirement to provide comprehensive and integrated training is increasingly recognised in both the civil and military sectors.

Argon will continue to expand on this capability offering in 2011, enabling enhanced training in the use of chemical and radiological detectors at every level from individual competence to assured and auditable group performance.

As we move forwards in a decade of global change and asymmetric threat, the challenge of meeting the need for CBRN preparedness has not lessened. Argon Electronics remains committed to providing cost effective and safe training solutions in essential contribution to this critical capacity.

Argon radiation survey meter and contamination probe simulator released

Argon has released the RDS-200-SIM for training users in the use of the RDS-200 survey meter.  Using patented technology to safely simulate gamma radiation without the need to use any ionising radionuclides, this innovative design enables instructors to provide trainees with a detailed understanding of equipment function and performance in responding to radiological release events.

RDS-200-SIM is also fully compatible with the PlumeSIM wide area tactical field exercise training system.

The GMP-11-SIM is a simulation probe that responds to safe powders or liquids in simulation of the effects of beta-emitting materials, and can be used with either the RDS-200-SIM or the real RDS-200 survey meter.

Argon RDS-200-SIM and GMP-11-SIM literature.  For further information on our range of chemical and radiological simulation training systems please visit our website at www.argonelectronics.com or e-mail sales@argonelectronics.com.