DHS selects New York to test new radiation detection technologies
DHS may have cut some $83 million from its anti-terror grants to New York City, but it has selected a city port to test new radiation detection technology
We reported yesterday that DHS has awarded contracts worth more than $1.1 billion to companies working on new radioactive radiation detection technology. DHS has now selected a Staten Island port as the test site for the new technology, and new radiation detectors will be installed this fall at the New York Container Terminal as part of a pilot program run by DHS.
DHS may have cut the anti-terror grants it gives New York by $83 million, but DHS secretary Michael Chertoff said the department was expanding another test program in New York, this time to keep nuclear and dirty bomb materials out of the city. Detection devices are already in place at Kennedy Airport, the Holland Tunnel, and other undisclosed locations.
