American convoys often must wait for bomb-detection teams that move at three miles per hour.
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Fairfield, Conn., said it had won Federal Trade Commission approval for its purchase of InVision Technologies Inc., Newark, Calif., a maker of bomb detection machines.
With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, for example, he is looking at ways to identify dogs for jobs like bomb detection.
The commission received thousands of letters both supporting Bryant's stance and condemning the commission; at one point the U.S. Postal Service installed bomb detection equipment for the mail collected for delivery to the Florida Citrus Commission.
Mr. DeCosta and other airport managers criticize the federal agency's plan to install by the end of the year 1,240 minivan-size bomb detection machines for baggage screening and 5,000 smaller explosive-trace-detection devices, mostly in airport terminals.
On March 10th, Britain's Smiths Group paid $15m for Cyrano Sciences, a seven-year-old Pasadena firm which, like InVision, specialises in bomb detection.
Their bomb detection equipment is antiquated.
This includes bomb detection and extracting a force under attack.
It has barriers to stop truck bomb attacks, and metal protectors and bomb detection machines at its entrances.
