2000 CPEO Military List Archive

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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:54:00 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Newark Company's System Helps Detect Deadly Land Mines
 
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/12/BU5666
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San Francisco Chronicle
6/12/00

Newark Company's System Helps Detect Deadly Land Mines

David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor 

A new technique for detecting buried plastic land mines -- the
indiscriminate legacy of wars both past and present -- has scored 100
percent success in locating the deadly devices during field tests in Bosnia
and at an Army base in Missouri, the Defense Department reported. 

The promising new systems have been developed with Pentagon support by a
10-year-old high-tech company called InVision Technologies of Newark, which
makes advanced devices for detecting concealed explosives at airport
baggage handling facilities. 

In a ``blind test in unprepared soil'' in Bosnia last December, the first
truck-mounted prototypes successfully found six buried anti-personnel
containers holding RDX, a solid high explosive also known as cylonite, and
two TNT targets resembling anti-tank mines, according to the Defense
Department Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 

continued ...

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/12/BU5666
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