
DARPA Awards SRI International $12M for Early Warning Chemical Threat Detector SRI International has received a multi-year $11.6 million contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop advanced sensors that can detect chemical threats in complex urban environments. SRI will develop its Localization and Characterization of Chemical Anomalies in Urban Settings (LOCCUS) under DARPA’s SIGMA+ program. LOCCUS will be designed for installation on vehicles that can move through a city to detect trace levels of precursor chemicals…