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Homeland Security

TSA To Pilot Test New X-Ray System To Image Cars At Ferry Terminal

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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is conducting a three-week pilot test of Spectrum San Diego's CarSCAN X-Ray imaging system in conjunction with the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority to conduct explosives screening on passenger vehicles. CarSCAN was introduced last spring by Spectrum San Diego, offering potential customers a top-down, dual-energy X-Ray transmission imaging capability of passenger vehicles. The X-Rays penetrate through the entire vehicles and produce color-coded images for different thicknesses of organic materials and also allows…

Congress

With $1.5 Trillion Request, Army, Air Force, Navy’s Unfunded Lists Focus Solely On MILCON Projects

With the Trump administration’s push to massively increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion in fiscal year 2027, the Army, Air Force and Navy have eschewed submitting large unfunded priorities lists […]

Unmanned Systems

Bipartisan House Bill Would Give National Guard To Counter-Drone Authorities

Seeking to close gaps that may arise between state and local law enforcers in different jurisdictions, a bipartisan contingent of House members this week introduced a bill that would allow […]

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]