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  • Block MEMS Advances to Second Phase of IARPA's Explosive Trace Detection Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Block MEMS Advances to Second Phase of IARPA’s Explosive Trace Detection Program

    A Block Engineering subsidiary will continue to develop a system that works to detect explosives and toxic chemical threats under a $10.7 million  Intelligence Advanced Research Programs Activity project. IARPA selected Block MEMS to move forward with Phase II of the agency’s Standoff Illuminator for Measuring Absorbance and Reflectance Infrared Light Signatures effort through a competitive down-selection process, the company said Monday. […] More

  • DARPA, Industry Partners Test Chemical Warfare Agent Neutralization System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Industry Partners Test Chemical Warfare Agent Neutralization System

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed initial tests on a field-deployable system that combines technologies from the Southwest Research Institute and PyroGenesis Canada to neutralize chemical warfare agents. DARPA said Friday it tested SwRI’s soil-scrubbing technology alongside PyroGenesis’ Tactical Plasma Arc Chemical Warfare Agents Destruction System that works to collect and convert toxic CWA decomposition products into non-hazardous salts. The platform […] More

  • Army Taps ChemImage to Produce Final Prototype Sensors to Detect Chem Warfare Agents - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps ChemImage to Produce Final Prototype Sensors to Detect Chem Warfare Agents

    The U.S. Army has exercised the second option of a contract with ChemImage Sensor Systems for the development of final prototype sensors that work to identify and locate chemical warfare agents. CISS said Thursday it will design, produce and test the sensors to support CWA detection on environmental surfaces under the option in the Next Generation Chemical Detector contract. Charles […] More