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Homeland Security

DHS Seeks Long Range S&T Projects

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

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The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) branch is seeking proposals for long-range projects and innovative prototypes in the following areas of strategic interest: explosive countermeasures, including detection, mitigation and response to a variety of threats; chemical and biological analyses and countermeasures, including improved characterization and prioritization of threats, development and detection systems for early attack warning, new forensic methods to support attribution; and novel concepts for decontamination and restoration, agro-defense, and food security; border and maritime…

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