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Homeland Security

BAND Program Chief Cites Progress, Challenges

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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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The three companies developing next-generation biological detection systems for potential deployment in urban areas are all making progress toward an operational test and evaluation (OT&E) phase that will begin next spring, the program manager for the Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector (BAND) program tells TR2. One of the main challenges that remain is improving the robustness of the designs so they can remain in the field "without any performance degradation," Ed Rhyne says. BAND is currently managed within the Department of…

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