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Missile market to grow to $100 billion by 2015; missiles for air defense to account for large share
Iran’s crash program to develop ballistic missiles, to say nothing of its relentless drive to build nuclear weapons, has rekindled an anxious interest in missile defenses; other aerial threats such as cruise missiles and UAVs only add to the drive for better and more sophisticated aerial defenses, offering opportunities for companies and investors
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Trend: Growing debate over safety of nuclear power plants
Worries about the rising price of oil and the degradation of the environment by fossil fuels have led to renewed interest in nuclear power plants; worries about terrorism, however, cut in the other
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Isonics' air monitoring system to be installed at IMF HQ
IMF has selected an air monitoring system from Isonics to guard its Washington, D.C. HQ against chemical weapon attacks
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Implant receives more orders from China for Quantum Sniffer
Maker of hand-held explosive detection device send more units to China, where more than 100 units have already been deployed
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View Systems receives more orders for SecureScan
Monitoring system developer sells two more units in Georgia
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House committee defeats Democrat-sponsored container security measure
Democratic minority in the House Homeland Security Committee wanted a strict timetable for implementing freight container security measure, but Republican majority defeats proposal
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AS&E receives first South American order for backscatter X-ray van
Manufacturer of an effective, if controversial, backscatter X-ray scanner receives first order for the mobile version of the device from south of the border
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German companies offer new detection and diffusion robot
German companies’ contribution to homeland security has been surprisingly modest, so it is good to see two German companies offer an innovative bomb detection and diffusion robot — and do so in time for the June World Cup Soccer tournament
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GAO's investigators manage to smuggle nuclear materials into U.S.
GAO’s undercover agents managed to smuggle radioactive material into the U.S.; nuclear sniffers at the ports of entry discovered the material, but border guards were easily fooled by fake documents — and the lack of a centralized registry listing what people and companies are allowed to ship nuclear materials
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Unease growing with Hutchison nuclear radiation detection deal
The Bush administration will start negotiating with the Bahamian government to allow U.S. custom agents to monitor nuclear radiation detection operations at Freeport conducted by Hong Kong company — or the deal may go the way of the DP World and Check Point-Sourcefire deals went
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EOIR tests remote chemical detection system
The move toward federal regulation of safety measures at the more than 15,000 U.S. chemical plants is inevitable, and companies begin to suggest their under-development products in support of the forthcoming measures
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TVI receives largest order yet for its pressured-air testers
Maryland contamination gear maker receives military order for its pressured-air testers
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