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title: "Hold me. I’m feeling PROTECTed"
description: "CBRNe World provides those tasked with defending against CBRN and IED threats with the essential practical, scientific and political information. Access the current and previous issues of the magazine by registering as a member."
url: "https://cbrneworld.com/news/subscribers/hold-me-im-feeling-protected"
date: "2026-07-30T21:42:27+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Hold me. I’m feeling PROTECTed

 Written by S Johnson on 08 May 2010.

Smiths Detection announced that they had been awarded a five year contract from the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) for a continuation of detection systems and an upgrade of their libraries and radiological detection. The system forms part of PROTECT, Program for Response Options and Technology Enhancements for Chemical/Biological Terrorism, and also includes their FirstView tool to provide enhanced C2 and incident management system – allowing networked CCTV and digital recording.

 [Detection](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/detection), [Chemical](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/chemical), [Biological](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/biological), [Radiological](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/radiological), [Contract](https://cbrneworld.com/component/tags/tag/contract)

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