Defense CBRNE Threat-Detection Systems For Transportation Security
Marion G. Ceruti, Richard L. Waters, Pamela A. Boss, Ritesh P. Patel, Stuart H. Rubin, Charles Datte, Scott C. McGirr, Thomas Stark · 2008
New technology is needed to counter the growing threat of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) terrorist attacks. Joint Department of Defense (DoD) CBRNE programs can support homeland-defense efforts in this area. This paper explains some DoD-developed technology involved in advancing and integrating hardware and software components into an advanced threat-detection system. This research has three thrusts: (1) new, next-generation individual and arrayed CBRNE sensors. (2) new deployment methods for lightweight, modular sensors, and (3) the integration of sensors into a network where intelligent software agents, data-fusion algorithms, and expert systems enhance the user's ability to retrieve and understand the data.