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Homeland Security

DHS S&T’s Project SCREEN Seeks to Discover Cargo Anomalies and Threats

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has issued a Request for Information related to a new project called Project SCREEN to take advantage of mathematically-based, improved algorithms for cargo screening and targeting decision making using anomaly detection, behavior prediction, patter recognition, threat detection and risk analysis as embedded within a decision support system for the discovery of cargo anomalies and threats. Customs and Border Protection currently requires a number of data elements as part of…

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