Quasar Federal Systems has received a $1.2 million contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for research under the Methods for Explosive Detection at Standoff (MEDS) program. DARPA plans to award multiple contracts under MEDS for multidisciplinary research to rapidly develop and demonstrate non-contact methods to detect explosives embedded or packaged in opaque media with high water content such as water, mud, meat or animal carcasses, and others at standoff.
Implant Sciences Corp. [IMSC] has soled its Quantum Sniffer QS-B220 benchtop and QS-H150 handheld explosive trace detectors to a new customer in the Middle East. The sale is the fifth for the company into the Middle East in the last five months.
Smiths Detection has received an order from the New Jersey State Police for the company’s new HazMatID Elite device, a handheld system that detects and identifies explosives, chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals and narcotics. The Elite provides emergency response teams with on-scene capability to quickly identify unknown liquid and solid substances. The Elite is 10 times smaller and four times lighter than the original device.