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Homeland Security

Army Command Issues RFI on Behavior Screening

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

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The Army Materiel Command has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for the service's Rapid Equipping Force (REF), which seeks technology that is able to determine an individual's behavioral intent and emotion, the physiological signs of stress, fear or deception that cannot be manipulated. The REF's mission is to rapidly increase mission capability while reducing risk to soldiers and others by equipping operational commanders with off-the-shelf solutions or near-term developmental items that can be researched, developed and acquired quickly. The…

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