*Reveal Imaging Technologies has acquired certain technology from Florida-based Xytrans, Inc., a developer of millimeter wave sensor technology for use in security, concealed weapons detection and personnel screening applications. The technology includes passive and active millimeter wave imaging technologies and methods for manufacturing monolithic microwave integrated circuits, prototype and product designs. Reveal Chief Michael Ellenbogen says that millimeter wave technology is one area his company is pursuing to provide a complete checkpoint inspection solution.
*General Electric [GE] has received a two-year, $1.1 million award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to develop “Biotic Man,” which will be a computer model of a physiologically-based virtual human that could dramatically speed drug design in response to the threat of biological attacks on the battlefield or on the home front. The project is under DTRA’s Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative and will involve the use of a software tool developed by GE Global Research for computational models to measure a drug’s response in the body long before clinical trials begin. “This new, enhanced software tool will enable researchers to test and develop new drug therapies in a virtual, safer environment with better quantitative information,” says John Graf, principal investigator on the project for GE Global Research. GE says that predicting drug failures sooner will help reduce testing costs and improve productivity.
*NCS Pearson, Inc. has agreed to pay $5.6 million to resolve allegations that the company overcharged the Transportation Security Administration for work it did in helping the agency recruit and select federal screeners under a contract awarded to the company following the passage of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act in late 2001. The settlement was announced by the Dept. of Justice. Justice says the allegations related to charges that NCS Pearson billed incorrect rates for subcontractor labor. Pearson Government Solutions, the business of the former NCS Pearson that had the TSA contract, was renamed Vangent Inc. and sold to the Private Equity firm Veritas Capital in 2006.