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Ahura Scientific Awarded $5.9M to Supply FirstDefenders to DHS

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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

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Ahura Scientific, Inc., says it has delivered 201 FirstDefender handheld chemical identification instruments to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) 2007 Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP) under a $5.9 million contract. Training and delivery of the units took place in March. Ahura says that in its first year under the CEDAP, FirstDefender was offered as a bundle with Mine Safety Appliances' [MSA] Sirius Multigas Detector in the CEDAP Chemical Detection Kit, with more kits requested and awarded than any…

Congress

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Congress

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