Assessment of Law Enforcement Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Personal Protective Equipment Audible Signature

Abstract

Tactical law enforcement (LE) officers need to wear commercial chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) personal protective equipment (PPE) during operations such as clandestine laboratory responses, barricaded CBRN terrorist responses, or downed-officer evacuations under hazardous atmospheric conditions. Audible signature refers to the noise a tactical officer or his or her equipment may make that could lead to detection by a threat. Some characteristics of CBRN PPE may increase an officer s audible signature and make stealth operations more challenging or impossible. The goal of this effort was to investigate the audible signature characteristics of multiple LE CBRN PPE ensembles when worn with tactical LE equipment. Multiple statistically significant audible signature differences were found among the CBRN PPE ensembles evaluated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA585744

Entities

People

  • Daniel J. Barker
  • Karen M. Coyne

Organizations

  • Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Absorption
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Anechoic Chambers
  • Body Armor
  • Breathing Apparatus
  • Data Analysis
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Law Enforcement
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Medical Personnel
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Protective Equipment
  • Sound Pressure
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Terrorists

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.