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Homeland Security

VIASPACE Demonstrates System for Detecting Chemicals, Explosives and Drugs

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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

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VIASPACE [VSPC] says that its subsidiary Ionfinity has demonstrated a new detection and analysis system for identifying hazardous chemicals, explosives, industrial toxic gases, drugs and chemical components of improvised explosive devices. The demonstrations were part of two phase II small business technology contracts the company has with the Army and Navy. "Ionfinity teamed with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Imaginative Technologies, LLC, and Sionex Corp., and successfully demonstrated a Differential Mobility Spectrometer-based technology designed to detect and analyze hazardous chemicals, explosives,…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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