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Homeland Security

Army Plans Solicitation for Chemical Multi-Threat Detection

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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

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The Army's Edgewood Contracting Division on behalf of the Joint Project Manager for Nuclear Biological and Chemical Contamination Avoidance plans to issue a Request for Proposal by May 27 for the Multi-Mission Multi-Threat Detection (M3TD) effort. The M3TD effort includes data collection of contact and non-contact sensors to evaluate the state of technology for detection of a variety of chemicals of interest, which potentially will lead to refinement of current technology to meet future capability requirements in support of chemical,…

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