ter for Research, Education, Training and Technical Assistance (BORSEC) has a miss

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obtain supplemental funding to counter border violence. To stimulate and conduct research, education, training, and technical assistance to counter border violence and protect the rights and safety of all people in New Mexico. Click here to visit the BORSEC website o µBottom of Form Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) Explosives Research and Testing The Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC), a major research and training division of New Mex

• Identify Terrorist Targets.
• Understand Explosives and Characteristics.
• ico Tech, is internationally recognized and has over 60 years expe
• rience in explosives research and testing. EMRTC specializes in t
• he research, development, testing, and analysis o
• f energetic materials for both corporate and gov
• ernment clients. As one of several research di
• visions of New Mexico Tech, EMRTC has access to u
• niversity faculty with experience in a wide variety o

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d technical disciplines. EMRTC's 40-square-mile field laboratory is located in the mountains adjacent to the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro, New Mexico. The field laboratory contains more than 30 test sites, gun ranges, other research facilities and storage areas, allowing for a complete spectrum of research and testing activities. EMRTC has the ability to conduct tests involving over 20,000 pounds of explosives. Current Activities Explosives Camp at New Mexico Tech is back for 2013! Upcoming First Responder Training courses at EMRTC DOT/UN Testing and Classifications - EMRTC is an approved examining agency for explosives and other hazardous materials. CNN News Report 11 May 2010 Services and Research EMRTC offers a wide range o

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The course is designed to assist a jurisdiction in developing an integrated healthcare team capable of planning for and responding to a bombing incident. The primary audience consists of first responders and first receivers throughout the jurisdiction and surrounding areas. Additional participants may include other professional representatives who might be involved in response to a bombing incident to include law enforcement, public health, and emergency management staff. If desired, personnel from other city, county, state and federal EMS agencies located within the jurisdiction may also attend the course.

Maximum class enrollment - 30
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the services listed below to find out how EMRTC can

best help you and your company to move forward with your testing program needs. EMRTC has many research scientist

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• ineers who specialize in the areas briefly described below. Contact information for each service or research area can be found on their individual pages. B
• allistics Testing EMRTC has an extensive existing inventory of gun systems, as well as the ability to modify these sys

tems to meet

experimental ballistic requirements. Curtain Wall Reaction Tests EMRTC has a full-scale four-story Curtain Wall Reaction Structure located at the High Performance

Magazine (HPM) facility

• Classroom seating for up to 30 participants with an additional "breakout room" (near the primary classroom) capable of supporting at least 1/2 of the original class size for small group activities and exercises throughout the two day course.
• . EMRTC has the ability to test more than 20,000 pounds of TNT
• equivalent blasts using the curtain wall
• structure. Computer Simulations EMRTC uses a wide array of state-of-the-art comput

er software to predict and analyze man

y types of reactions, structures, and energetic ev

• ents. DOT and UN Hazard
• s Classification EMRTC is an approved Dep
• artment of Transportation Examining Agency authorized t
• o perform explosive and other hazardous materials testing or examination. 12 Meter Drop Test Structure Th

e EMRTC Drop Test Structure (DTS) is constructed specifically to NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) No. 4375 - "Safety Drop, Munition Test Procedure". Mine Detection Evaluation EMRTC developed its Countermine

Contact Test Site to tes to arrange a class in your area or call 575-835-5054.