The Defense Department has awarded Smiths Detection an additional $28.5 million contact to supply advanced lightweight detectors under the Joint Chemical Agent Detector (JCAD) program. The new order brings to $52.3 million the total Smiths has been awarded this year under JCAD. The company won a $23.8 million low-rate initial production contract in March (TR2, March 19, 2008). “We are pleased that our Lightweight Chemical Detector units are effectively providing troops with advanced chemical threat detection,” says Mal Maginnis, president of Smiths Detection–Global Military and Emergency Responders. “The M4 JCAD has the capability of two instruments in one, a point detector monitoring air for chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals as well as a survey instrument that can check for contamination.”