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Homeland Security

DARPA Awards Contracts for Sensor Based on Canine Smell Sense

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

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The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded three contracts related to the design and development of a sensor inspired by a canine's sense of smell for use in detecting explosives or chemical or biological weapons. Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] received a potential $18 million award, Evolved Machines Federal Contracting Inc. up to $8.9 million and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology $6.6 million. The contracts are under DARPA's RealNose program, which is aimed at building a "`nose'…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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