Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection Image Caption: Qinhuangdao U.S. and Chinese officials officially opened a new radiation detection center in the port of Qinhuangdao on China’s northwestern coast on Sept. 27. The facility, said the U.S. nuclear security, which helped construct the facility, will provide training for China’s customs…
NNSA conducts radiation detection workshops in Tennessee, Tajikistan
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection Image Caption: Dushanbe, Tajikistan The U.S. nuclear security agency recently concluded workshops aimed at blunting nuclear terror and radiation dangers at a Tennessee hospital and on the steppes of Asia. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said on Sept. 26 it completed a workshop…
Maltese port inaugurates new nuclear detection gear
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: Port of Marsaxlokk The Port of Marsaxlokk, Malta commissioned new gear to detect smuggled nuclear material on Sept. 18 in conjunction with the U.S. nuclear safety agency. On Sept. 18, representatives from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of International Material…
CBP detection dog adds to remarkable record at O’Hare
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Rogue at work Discoveries of ingeniously-hidden drugs in shipments of fabric and hats at Chicago O’Hare airport has Customs and Border Protection officials calling a five-year-old Belgian Malinois named Rogue a “wonder dog.” Rogue sniffed out two shipments of opium-soaked clothing at…
CBP detection dog adds on to remarkable record at O’Hare
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Rogue at work Discoveries of ingeniously-hidden drugs in shipments of fabric and hats at Chicago O’Hare airport has Customs and Border Protection officials calling a five-year-old Belgian Malinois named Rogue a “wonder dog.” Rogue a sniffed out two shipments of opium-soaked clothing…
DARPA detection system uses soldiers’ brain waves to help protect forces
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: military_force_protection Image Caption: CT2WS camera Researchers for the Defense Department are relying on the brainpower of soldiers in the field as a key ingredient for a new threat detection sensor system. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARP) is developing a Cognitive Technology Threat Warning…
ATF explosives detection dog program marks milestone
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection Image Caption: ATF detection dog Almost 1,000 explosives and accelerant detection dogs have been trained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ canine training boot camp since it began in 1994, said the agency on Sept. 12, as the 100th class of…
TSA awards huge baggage screening contracts to L-3 and Morpho Detection
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security Image Caption: L-3′s eXaminerbaggage screener TSA has awarded contracts, each potentially worth more than half a billion dollars, to L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc. and Morpho Detection, Inc. to supply “medium speed” explosive detection systems that can screen checked baggage turned over…
DHS awards $100 million contract for ultralight aircraft detection system
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Ultralight aircraft Facing increasing pressure from drug dealers using ultralight, hard-to-spot aircraft to smuggle drug loads across the border undetected, the Department of Homeland Security awarded a New York company with a $99.9 million contract for detection technology that can find them….
DARPA looking to develop ultra-fast laser technology for detection and communications
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: communications The Defense Department’s technology developers want help in developing laser technology that could exponentially amp up radar scanning, secure communications, supercharge explosives and chemical detection systems, as well as provide extremely detailed medical images. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said on Aug….