iRobot Corp. has been awarded multiyear contracts with an initial value of $9.6 million by the Canadian Department of National Defense. The contracts, awarded after a competitive bidding process, call for the delivery of iRobot 510 PackBot CBRN Recce Systems, training, and future product lifecycle support.
QuickSilver Analytics Inc. will be a supplier of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) sampling kits and components for the DR-SKO system, which balances performance and affordability to offer the best capability possible for our Joint Forces safety and readiness.
Morphix Technologies® has created a classroom TraceX® Explosives Detection Training Kit that includes a unit designed to teach end users how to identify bombers, bomb-makers, and bomb-making facilities in a single test. This kit was developed in response to the increasing need for homemade explosive material detection training.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Ad Council launched a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) as an extension of their national Ready campaign to encourage parents to develop an emergency preparedness plan. The new PSAs were unveiled in time for the 11th annual National Preparedness Month.
SoBran Inc., the international leader in mail security, is protecting D.C.-region personnel and businesses with its SafeMail® D.C. offsite mail screening facility. SafeMail D.C. was launched earlier this year, and now includes government agencies and commercial enterprises among its clients. The state-of-the-art screening facility is a first in the metropolitan area.
ACE-ID, Smiths Detection's newest product, is a noncontact explosives and precursors identifier that uses an advanced optical platform to minimize the risk of heating or possibly igniting dark samples during analysis. The HazMatID Elite chemical identifier effectively analyzes and identifies unknown solids and liquids in one minute or less.
Based on feedback from firefighters and other first responders, MSA recently released the G1 SCBA - the most comfortable, streamlined, balanced, configurable, and customizable self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA).
The National Security Council and Office of Science and Technology Policy recently sent a joint memorandum to all federal departments and agencies involved in life-sciences research, urging them to address the underlying causes of the recent laboratory incidents and to strengthen overall biosafety and biosecurity at federal facilities.
The development of a medication to treat Ebola patients will accelerate under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. This contract supports the government-wide response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
At the heart of this new system is a three-sided air shelter, which has been specially designed to work in conjunction with a trailer. It can be rapidly deployed by one or two people, then quickly attached to the side of the trailer using a proprietary hardware system.
