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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 16th, 2019

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The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has awarded two contracts worth a combined $4.4 million related to biological threat detection technology. S&T awarded ENSCO, Inc. an 18-month, $2.9 million contract for continued work on SenseNet, which is aimed at developing a low-cost integrated sensor system that can detect biological health hazards in buildings and other high-occupancy indoor facilities and distinguish between naturally occurring events and threats. Previously, ENSCO designed and demonstrated a prototype system that can be…

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