Homeland Security

Smiths Detection has introduced a new capability for checkpoint security called iLane, which involves diverting suspicious carry-on bags away from a passenger for secondary screening based on a primary examination […]

The Joint Program Manager for Nuclear Biological and Chemical Contamination Avoidance will hose an Industry Day briefing for the Joint NBC Reconnaissance System Increment 2 project on Nov. 7 at […]

*Emergent BioSolutions [EBS] received a $400 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide 18.75 million doses of the anthrax vaccine BioThrax through Sept. 2010 […]

Terahertz instrumentation supplier Advanced Photonix, Inc. [API] has received a $1 million Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from the Department of Homeland Security to develop and prototype […]

Project Seahawk, the Department of Justice administered unified intelligence operations center for the Port of Charleston, S.C., has deployed the OmniView Gantry X-Ray system for the inspection of high risk […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has revised a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) issued last September for Home Made Explosives (HME) Detection System Capability Development. […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has completed the installation of a new computer-aided dispatch system and the company’s CommandPoint Mobile applications for the Los Angeles Police Department. CommandPoint Mobile interfaces between the […]

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather technical and engineering information on commercial off-the-shelf gamma and radiation detection systems that can be […]

Canberra has introduced the Falcon 5000, the company’s first portable germanium-based nuclear identifier, which can detect, locate and identify radiation. The battery cooled device includes Canberra’s Genie 2000 gamma analysis […]

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Seattle Urban Area Security Initiative have begun the Interagency Biological Restoration Initiative (IBRD) to develop policies, […]