DHS Releases RFIP on Handheld Radioactive Contamination Detectors and Radiation Portal Monitors
Originally published by Homeland Security Today
DHS issued a Request for Information for Participation
...DetectaChem/MD-Bio Introduce Assay for Monkeypox Detection
DetectaChem and its subsidiary MD-Bio, the global leaders in innovative threat detection solutions used extensively by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Homeland Security, law enforcement, first responders and public health agencies around the world, today announce the launch of their MD-Bio
...Smiths Detection named as Official Security Equipment Provider – Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, has today been announced as a sponsor and supplier of X-ray screening and detection equipment for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, helping to create a secure environment for all
...French Defense Innovation Agency Investigates the Use of DNA Script’s SYNTAX System to Synthesize Custom qPCR Probes for On-demand Detection of Biothreats
DNA Script, a world leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS) for DNA on demand, has announced the first successful qPCR assays using primers and probes synthesized by a customer via enzymatic synthesis using the company’s ...
Teledyne FLIR Defense Launches MUVE B330 Drone Payload for Remote Bio-Hazard Detection
Teledyne FLIR Defense announced today at Eurosatory the launch of its new MUVE™ B330 drone payload that can be used to detect deadly biological agents and other airborne biohazards.
The MUVE
...HDIAC is seeking your knowledge
What wearable chemical sensor technology is available for first responders?
Kromek receives new Nuclear Security order from US federal entity
Kromek, a leading developer of radiation and bio-detection technology solutions for the advanced imaging and CBRN detection segments, announces that it has received an order from a US federal entity for the Group’s D3S-ID wearable nuclear radiation detector. The order is worth $695,000 and is
...RedWave Technology Introduces the XplorIR
Homeland security company RedWave Technology is introducing the XplorIR, the most innovative gas-identification system specifically developed for today’s emergency response missions.
The XplorIR can identify over 5,500
...NuGBall and NuVision by Nuvia
Whilst at the 5th CBRN R&I Conference in Lille last week, we got to catch up with the team from Nuvia, and find out what new tech they have on offer.
BioFlyte Raises $6.1M in Series A Financing to Advance Biothreat Detection Technology
BioFlyte, a biodetection company with a revolutionary new class of fieldable biological threat collection, detection, and identification solutions, today announced that it raised $6.1M in new financing led by Cottonwood Technology Fund with additional funding from existing
...Todd Research receives Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2022
Todd Research, a global expert in threat detection X-ray equipment for safety and security, is delighted to have been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2022 for its outstanding TR15 and TR40 cabinet X-ray scanners. This prestigious award recognises Todd Research’s ongoing
...Teledyne FLIR Defense Integrates MUVE C360 Chemical Hazard Sensor on Spot Quadruped!
Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), announced that it has teamed with MFE Inspection Solutions to integrate the FLIR MUVE™ C360 multi-gas detector on Boston Dynamics’
...Liberty Defense Signs Canada’s Largest Airport to Test AI Security Detection System
Liberty Defense Holdings Ltd.a leading technology provider of threat detection solutions for concealed weapons, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (“GTAA”) to
...Xpanding Chemical Detection Capabilities in UAV & UGV Applications with ChemProX
ChemProX in-built Mobile C&C and Training Software features have been optimized to better support ...
Teledyne FLIR identiFINDER R425 and R700 webinars
Teledyne FLIR is pleased to announce the upcoming free virtual webinars, to cover the identiFINDER R425 and the recently released highly sensitive, spectroscopic backpack, the identiFINDER R700.
These webinars will include a mix of videos,
...DHS S&T Seeks Mobile Radiation Detection Systems for Emergency Responders
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a ...
Wearable Air Sampler Detects Personal Exposure to SARS-CoV-2
Originally published by Yale School of Health
Masks, physical distancing, good hygiene, and ventilation can help reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in public places. But even when these measures are taken, scientists have sometimes detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,
...Environics Achieving Remarkable Steps for Business Growth in China CBRN Field
In the last quarter of 2021, Environics have opened a new regional office strategically located in Beijing, more precisely in Haidian district. Together with a local sales team headed by Sales
...Leading Energy Company Signs with Blackline Safety in New $4.3 Million Deal
Blackline Safety Corp, a global leader in connected safety technology with a hardware-enabled software-as-a-service (HeSaaS) business model, today announced a $4.3 million deal with a US-based energy company
...Maryland Police Select IonSense
IonSense is pleased to announce that their
Micro-X’s miniaturised baggage scanner set to transform US airport security
Micro-X and its US subsidiary is working with the US government to develop a passenger self-screening airport checkpoint portal, which will combine the traditional, sequential airport
...SPH Engineering Introduces UAV-based Remote Water Sampling System
SPH Engineering introduces the Remote Water Sampling System, a new UAV-based solution within UgCS Integrated Systems product line. The trial flight was conducted at a Latvian lake to proceed with water sampling for subsequent analysisin a laboratory.
The main benefit of this brand new
...South Korea develops technology for early, real-time chemical agent detection
South Korea has developed a homegrown technology for early, real-time detection of chemical weapons, its state-run arms development agency said Wednesday.
DARPA: WMD threat sensors tested in police vehicles
Originally published in Homeland Preparedness News
In collaboration with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) SIGMA+ program
...Smiths Detection wins contract to supply Radiation Portal Monitors across the US to DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office
Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today announces that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) to provide 110 radiation portal monitors (RPM).
...Blackline Safety and Vlahi Systems partner to improve gas plume monitoring and emergency response
Blackline Safety Corp., a global leader of gas detection and connected safety solutions, has announced it has partnered with Houston-based Vlahi Systems, provider of cloud-hosted, sensor driven gas plume dispersion
...SPH Engineering and France-based Hexadrone partner to integrate TUNDRA drone with a ground-penetrating radar
SPH Engineering and France-based Hexadrone partner to integrate TUNDRA drone with a ground-penetrating radar. The trial flight was conducted in Balogi, Latvia and confirmed the compatibility of the drone with a GPR sensor to perform near surface surveys.
The integration was performed to
...Smiths Detection confirms BioFlash detects airborne SARS-CoV-2 variants including Delta and Delta plus
Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today confirms that its air sampler, BioFlash, can detect SARS-CoV-2 variants including the Alpha variant (B.1.1.7), Beta variant (B.1.351), Gamma variant (P.1), the Kappa variant (B1.617.1), Delta
...Kromek to supply ‘dirty bomb’ detectors to United States
Sedgefield-based Kromek Group plc has announced a contract worth up to $1.6m to provide its world-leading radiation detection equipment to a US federal entity.
Kromek’s D3S-ID wearable nuclear radiation detector is designed to enable first responders, armed forces, border security and
...DHS Seeks Contractors to Improve Urban BioThreat Classification Sensor
Originally published by Global Biodefense
DHS CWMD is leading an effort to develop the next-generation of aerosol biodetection systems
RFIs open for Advanced Sensor
...GE Research Developing Handheld, Wearable Detector
Scientists at GE Research have won a five-year award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to develop a Compact Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (CVCAD) to provide first responders with an early warning of the presence of dangerous chemicals in all-weather and field-operational
...Kromek to exhibit for the first time at the Emergency Services Show
Kromek, the County Durham-based radiation detection specialists, will be exhibiting for the first time at the Emergency Services Show, run in conjunction with The Security Event, at the NEC in Birmingham from September 7-9 2021. (Stand T20) The show brings together under one roof the different
...DHS CWMD Awards $6.7M Contract for U.S. Coast Guard Radiological and Nuclear Threat Detection Equipment
The Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) has awarded a $6.7M task order to procure 2,364 Polimaster next-generation personal radiation detectors (PRDs) for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Blackline Safety's G7 EXO wins OH&S 2021 New Product of the Year award
World’s first direct-to-cloud area gas monitor with 4G connectivity recognized by independent judging panel in Safety Monitoring Devices category
Blackline Safety Corp. (TSX: BLN), a global leader of hardware-enabled software as a service (SaaS) technology, was recognized by
Kromek demonstrates its newest radiation detector at CBRN TAC-ADS 2021
Kromek, the radiation detection specialists based in Sedgefield, County Durham, participated in the annual National CBRN Centre’s CBRN Tac-Ads Conference held in person in Cheshire between 7th and 8th July 2021.
Attendees included Tactical Advisors from First
...Strategic Elements 'Stealth Technologies' to develop autonomous defence vehicle
Strategic Elements’ subsidiary Stealth Technologies is geared up to manufacture an autonomous defence vehicle through a new collaboration with Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG), part of the Australian Department of Defence, and the University of Western Australia (UWA).
The
...Teledyne FLIR Wins Pentagon Contract to Develop First Individual Chemical Detector for Warfighters
Teledyne FLIR announced it has won a contract to develop the first mass-wearable chemical detector for U.S. troops under the Pentagon’s Compact Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (CVCAD) program. The company received $4.0 million in initial funding.
Currently, troops lack the protection of
...Kromek awarded c. $6m contract by DARPA to further develop bio-threat detection system
Kromek is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a new c. $6m contract by the DARPA for Phase II of its development of a biological threat detection system that senses, analyses and identifies airborne pathogens. Kromek will deliver the contract over the next 28-month period, commencing
...Teledyne FLIR Introduces New identiFINDER R700 Backpack Radiation Detector
Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the launch of the identiFINDER® R700 Backpack Radiation Detector, an advanced mobile system that offers unparalleled capability for broad-area radiological monitoring missions. The company also announced
...BioFlyte Launches First Field Deployable Airborne COVID-19 Detection System to Improve School and Workplace Safety
BioFlyte, a biodetection
...MRICD develops chemical exposure field diagnostic system
From APG News:
Drawing from the technology used by diabetics to monitor their glucose levels, Dr. Shane Kasten at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense developed an ultra-portable, easy to use device to provide early warning of suspected exposure to a
...908 Devices Launches New Aerosol Module for Handheld MX908
908 Devices, a pioneer
...Draper to Develop Biosurveillance Technology for DARPA to Counter the Rapid Spread of Pathogens
Major infectious diseases, like COVID-19, often go undetected until they spread. Spotting the problem in a community isn’t easy, in part because infectious disease detection, which is the foundation for
Smiths Detection’s BioFlash deployed in real-world environments
Smiths Detection, the global threat detection and security technology company, announces that its ...
908 Devices Provides Handheld Mass Spec for Trace Detection to U.S. Border Patrol
908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built handheld and desktop mass spec devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis, today announced the U.S. Border Patrol selected the MX908® – a handheld, battery-powered, mass spectrometry device – to standardize its trace drug detection at 20 field
...908 Devices Awarded Multi-Year $25M Purchase Order to Enable the U.S. Army
908 Devices Inc. a pioneer of purpose-built handheld and desktop mass spec devices for chemical and biomolecular
...Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Raman Analyzer, Enhancing Narcotics Identification for Law Enforcement
In recent years, the production and distribution of lethal narcotics such as heroin, fentanyl, MDMA and others have become increasingly sophisticated. This has caused new challenges for law enforcement officers, who are often the first to come in contact with these substances and need to
...R&D Collaboration Leads to Award-Winning Chemical Weapons Detection Tech
It is always nice to be honored for a job well done—even better to share
...FDA Permits Marketing of First SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Test Using Traditional Premarket Review Process
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing authorization of the BioFire Respiratory Panel 2.1 (RP2.1), a diagnostic test for the simultaneous qualitative detection and
...CBRN operatives to benefit from radiation monitors developed for the nuclear deterrent programme
A ground-breaking radiation detection technology developed to support the UK’s nuclear deterrent is being made available to nuclear, national security, policing and counter-terrorism organisations.
The GMS595 is a sophisticated gamma dose-rate monitor developed by British company JCS
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