Defense CBRNE Threat-Detection Systems For Transportation Security

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.