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Homeland Security

DHS S&T Focusing Counter-IED on Stand-Off Capabilities

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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The Department of Homeland Security's high priority technology needs for countering vehicle and suicide bombers are focusing on stand-off detection, the chief of the Science and Technology branch says. "We need the ability to deter, predict, detect, defeat and destroy IEDs (improvised explosives devices) at range; I say 50 yards," Jay Cohen, under secretary for DHS S&T Directorate, says at a homeland security conference sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). "Whether it's under your clothes or in a…

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