
Detection technology for threats like explosives worn on a person’s body or carried in a backpack is three to five years from being ready for deployment to protect relatively open, high-throughput areas such as mass transit stations, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said on Tuesday.“Technology of this magnitude and for this hard problem is a long development timeline,” Donald Roberts, program manager for Surface Transportation Explosive Threat Detection within the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, told a House…