Ramona Adams
Smiths Detection Inc. has received a $17.2 million follow-up order from the U.S. Army to provide chemical detection devices for the Defense Department‘s Joint Chemical Agent Detector program.
SDI said Wednesday the JCAD project will utilize the company’s line of Lightweight Chemical Detector devices that are designed to warn responders such as military, police and hazmat personnel on the presence of dangerous substances and chemicals.
The devices are handheld and can be strapped to a belt, SDI noted.
The company manufactures the JCAD units delivered to the U.S. military at its Edgewood, Maryland, facility — the main U.S. manufacturing plant for SDI’s chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection products.
