"Countermeasures, which are typically mandatory, should be weighted in this case, considering the known circumstances of the transitional period and the possible response of the U.S. president-elect," said Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the foreign-affairs committee in Russia's upper house of parliament.
Why are the countermeasures, which are probably industry standard, unable to be disclosed?
The research conducted under this Project House will consist of individual "proof-of-concept" studies in the area of flood assessment and flood countermeasures, which are briefly outlined later and that will be completed between 2016 and 2019.
The president did not, however, mention the issue of countermeasures, or cyberweapons, which are apparently already used by government agencies and contractors (see "Welcome to the Malware Industrial Complex").
This is the main reason why Mr Mori's countermeasures for the stockmarket, which are supposed to include generous tax breaks for investors, have so far got nowhere.The outlook beyond Mr Mori is hardly any brighter.
Further, this chapter reviews the commercial technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) which is a popular method employed by companies to reduce the vulnerability component of risk.
"The idea's been around for years, and its effectiveness against modern threats is questionable," says F. Jack Pledger, director of Northrop's infrared countermeasures unit, which is producing laser systems to defeat heat-seeking missiles.
The final 18 aircraft were manufactured with provision for the ADR-8 countermeasures rocket, which was later retrofitted to the remainder of the B-52G and B-52H fleet.
For the same reasons, then, the standard countermeasures against acute organophosphate poisoning, which are aimed at the immediate reactivation of cholinesterase and prevention of seizures (Shih et al. 2003; Shih and McDonough 1999), are unlikely to prove effective in preventing the adverse effects on brain development associated with lower exposures of the population at large.
Therefore, more awareness should be driven to their potential abilities in the electronic counter-countermeasure (ECCM), which is of vital prominence to the survival and operation performance of radar systems in electronic warfare.
17– 19 The alternative is a 'flexible defense' for medical countermeasure development, which is now part of HHS's mission: BARDA is intended to promote 'innovation to reduce the time and cost of countermeasure… development' as well as improve the development of research tools, rapid diagnostics, broad-spectrum antimicrobials, and vaccine technologies.
