TraceGuard Technologies signed a letter of intent with Smiths Detection to cooperate in marketing its CompactSafe Automated Trace Extraction system.

TraceGuard Technologies appointed Avi Kostelitz CEO in January. He was formerly CEO of the Israel Airports Authority.

As part of a management buyout, Midwest Research Institute made a $1.3 million investment in biological detection firm Dycor Technologies in November 2007.

Sionex is supplying General Dynamics with its differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) technology for the JUNO chemical agent detector.

Analogic named Peter Cempellin vice president and general manager of the Security Systems Division. He was previously in charge of Nuclear Medicine for Philips Medical Systems.

Spacehab signed an exclusive licensing agreement with defense contractor Praemittias Group to market and sell its Miniature Mass Spectrometer technology to the US Department of Defense.

In January, Implant Sciences and OSI Systems resolved their legal dispute regarding a 2005 development, distribution and manufacturing agreement. Under a new agreement, OSI’s Rapiscan Systems subsidiary will sell Implant Sciences’ security products worldwide.

BioVigilant Systems and Innovative Biosensors will codevelop a biological threat identification system.

Container security firm GateKeeper USA acquired BioAvenge, a genomic and proteomic technologies company, in February.

In February, Implant Sciences signed a letter of intent to acquire Ion Metrics for two million shares of stock. Ion Metrics’ assets include MS, DMS, ion mobility spectrometry and vacuum pump technology.

Microfluidic Systems signed agreements with Applied Biosystems and Hamilton Sundstrand to develop an autonomous airborne pathogen identification system.

Analogic awarded L-3 Communications the exclusive rights to market and service its King Cobra and XLB 1100 security imaging systems for checked baggage.