More than two billion tons of cargo pass through ports and waterways annually in the United States. Many ports rely on gamma-ray scanners, based on radioactive isotopes such as cobalt-60, to screen ...

Last week, the Obama Administration released its first ever National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security. As stated, the main goals of the strategy are to promote the efficient and secure ...

A federal provision that requires 100 percent scanning of all U.S.-bound maritime cargo for radiological and nuclear threats has been extended for an additional two years. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson ...

Responding to questions raised during a congressional hearing on nuclear smuggling risks in the United States, Passport Systems, Inc. affirmed today that it has developed state-of-the-art radiation ...

Jena Baker McNeill is a homeland security policy analyst. The path towards 100 percent scanning of cargo containers has hit yet another stumbling block. A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) ...

At Decision Sciences International Corp.'s headquarters, a 20-foot shipping container sits beneath a car-wash size scanner. After about a minute, images of the container's contents pop up on a nearby ...

EDGEWOOD, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today announces that its dual-view air cargo scanner, the HI-SCAN 145180-2is ...

Two SLAC physicists help a local company design and build X-ray devices that scan cargo containers for nuclear materials and other hazards. After nearly 100 combined years working on accelerators—more ...

The global cargo scanning equipment market, valued at approximately USD 3.5 billion in 2022, is set to experience substantial growth in the coming years. With a projected growth rate of over 6.5% from ...

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