Decision Sciences exclusively licensed Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Muon Tomography technology for detection of nuclear and other weapons in car and vehicles. Full-scale production is expected to begin in early 2008. Smiths Detection LiveWire exclusively licensed Argonne National Laboratory’s PROTECT warning system that integrates chemical sensors and security cameras. Bm-t Beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen GmbH and Erfurt […]
Brijot Imaging Systems entered into a joint development plan with HRL Laboratories to enhance its BIS-WDS millimeter-wave imaging system using a module as a plug-in to enable high-volume manufacturing. In order to become profitable, Isonics restructured its Homeland Security & Defense unit to focus on the development of partnerships with prime contractors. Homeland Safety International […]
As part of the Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detectors program, the US Department of Homeland Security awarded US Genomics an $8.6 million 12-month Phase III contract to develop systems for the detection and identification of airborne pathogens.
MSA introduced the portable BIOSENSOR 2200R biological agent detector. Smiths Detection launched the Bio-Seeq Plus, which includes a new thermal cycler and runs six tests in parallel. Smiths Detection introduced the handheld Hazardous Gas and Vapor Identifier, featuring ion mobility spectrometry, photoionization detection and Taguchi gas sensors. Bruker Daltonics released CBRN (Chemical, Biological Radiation, Nuclear) […]
In February, biosensor developer NanoSensors signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of DKL International, a provider of passive detection technology. SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems contracted with ilochip A/S to develop a lab-on-a-chip system for detecting and identifying airborne biological pathogens. The $125.6 million jury verdict against L-3 Communications, resulting from its […]
CyTerra, an L-3 company, received a follow-on order from the US Army valued at more than $40 million for several thousand AN/PSS-14 mine detection systems. In March, Smiths Detection received a $19.2 million order from the US Department of Defense (DOD) for more than 4,100 handheld Improved Chemical Agent Monitor (ICAM) units for the detection […]
DANI introduced the FAUST (Fast Adaptive Unit Sensing Trace of Explosives) technology for explosives detection, based on chemical sensors. Totali, DANI and Glavani introduced the detectOne security booth for the detection of explosives, radioactive hazards, weapons and biometric data. Brijot Imaging Systems launched the new-generation BIS-WDS GEN 2 object detection and people screening technology, featuring […]
Company Announcements Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies agreed to jointly market and sell HiEnergy Technologies’ SIEGMA explosives detection and confirmation system. RAE Systems integrated its chemical and radiation product lines into MDI Security Systems’ ONE Unified Technology platform. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Santa Fe, New Mexico radiation detection equipment manufacturing facility will cease operations in March, according […]
The nature of security threats changes from crisis to crisis, averted or not. Staying nimble is a necessity in the analytical security industry: companies must respond quickly to develop technologies to counteract new threats. Government funding, which many security companies depend on, is uncertain. In this article, IBO explores two recent responses to the uncertainty […]
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