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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

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Implant Sciences [IMSC] has signed its second one-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Laboratory to use the company’s QS-B220 desktop explosive trace detector to gather information that can then be used by Implant to develop next-generation trace detection technology. PositiveID has signed a seven-month, $841,000 contract with United Technologies Corp. [UTX] to support the Air Force’s Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition program. The program will test…

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