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title: "DARPA award almost $500K for Methods of Explosive Detection at Standoff project"
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#  DARPA award almost $500K for Methods of Explosive Detection at Standoff project

 Written by S Johnson on 22 April 2013.

DARPA has awarded Northeastern University $467,755 to rapidly develop and demonstrate non-contact methods to detect explosives embedded or packaged in opaque media with high water content (e.g., water, mud, meat/animal carcasses) at standoff.

Further details [here](https://cbrneworld.com/%5C%22https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d2cdc60a2982b3524f183aafcc49c10e&tab=core&_cview=1%5C%22)

 [Explosive](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/explosive)

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