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Two high-tech detection devices based on the Ion Mobility Spectrometry have been developed by Barringer Technologies Inc and the Sandia National Laboratories. The devices will enable fast and easy identification of hazardous and illegal substances. Barringer's IONSCAN Sabre2000 can detect chemical agents, trace amounts of explosives and narcotics. The device being developed by Sandia is touted to be able to detect a submerged explosive compound more than 40 feet from the source.
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A team from the Sandia National Laboratories have come up a fast-hardening foam which they believe is the answer to many of the military's problems in neutralizing man-made obstacles. The rigid polyurethane foam (RPF) can support the military's most hefty ground combat vehicles over shoreline obstacles, minefileds, water obstacles, craters in roadways and ravines. The foam can also be employed for emergency repairs to aircraft runways, to reinforce damaged bridges and buildings, for emergency salvage operations on sunken cargo and as a field expedient security barrier.
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Innovations are paving the way for advanced chemical/biological gear to provide the military more protection. For instance, the Atmospheric Plasma Jet developed by Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory can kill CB warfare agents with a chemically reactive spray using electrically charged helium and oxygen gas. Another is the high-resolution Fourier Transform Infrared Imaging device that detects gas leaks in an industrial complex or chemical agent clouds on a battlefield.
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