The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration plans to issue an indefinite-delivery contract for the procurement and installation of Type 1 and Type 2 explosive ...

OSI Systems, Inc has received an order for approximately $13 million to provide multiple units of its RTT® 110 (Real Time Tomography) explosive detection system that is expected to be installed at an ...

EDGEWOOD, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smiths Detection has received an order from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) totaling seventy million dollars to supply CTX 9800 Explosives Detection ...

L-3 Communications Security & Detection has received a $33 million order from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for the company's eXaminer 3DX explosives detection systems. "L-3 has ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A University of Rhode Island professor has developed a sensor that detects the kind of explosive used in the Paris bombings, to try to stop future attacks. Professor Otto ...

Astrotech Corporation received a $1.29 million R&D contract from DHS to develop the TRACER 1000 explosives detection system. Astrotech Corporation and its subsidiary, 1st Detect Corporation, have ...

The Transportation Security Administration chose General Electric InVision and L-3 Communications to maintain bomb detectors in airports. TSA on March 14 announced two separate contracts for General ...

Detection of explosives involves collecting a sample, processing the sample, and ultimately deciding whether explosives are present or not. In order to provide a common vocabulary for subsequent ...

The ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure criticized the federal government's decision to use a less sophisticated method of screening luggage for explosives at ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix B Glossary." National Research Council. 2004. Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226 ...