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Last Updated: August 22, 2023 | Site Page

Teaching Machines to Detect Explosives

S&T’s Transportation Security Lab is using machine learning to improve and streamline explosives detection at transportation checkpoints.

Last Updated: August 10, 2023 | Press Releases

Feature Article: Helping DHS Mitigate Explosive Threats

New Explosives Planning and Research Tool (ExPRT) aggregates decades of research and data into a central, accessible, and actionable repository.

Last Updated: October 6, 2022 | Press Releases

Feature Article: The Next Generation of Explosives Trace Detection is Here

S&T is working on cutting-edge technology solutions to enhance transportation security and passenger experience.

Last Updated: July 25, 2022 | Site Page

The Bomb Squad Is Not an Afterthought

Technologically Speaking host Dee Saini is joined by Byung Hee Kim who shares how her time in the military prepared her for her current role as S&T’s Response and Defeat Operations Support (REDOPS) program manager.

Last Updated: June 21, 2022 | Press Releases

Feature Article: 3D X-Ray Makes it Easier to Detect Hidden Explosive Weapons

S&T is developing, implementing, and ensuring the effectiveness of cutting-edge screening equipment and protocols that help protect the public and keep security lines moving.

Last Updated: November 10, 2021 | Press Releases

News Release: S&T Awards funds to Detect Vehicle-Borne Explosives

Block MEMS, LLC, to develop technology that can detect Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices before they enter stadiums, parking structures, and other soft targets.

Last Updated: September 14, 2021 | Press Releases

News Release: DHS Awards to Small Business for Enhanced Detection of Explosives and Illicit Drugs

Targeted surface interrogation technology quickly detects trace residues of explosives and illicit drugs on carry-on baggage, laptops and other items.

Last Updated: August 16, 2021 | Publication

Explosives Threat Detection Fact Sheet

After the destruction of Pan American World Airways Flight 103 in 1988, the government established the Commercial Aircraft Vulnerability and Mitigation (CAVM) program to address terrorist-based internal aircraft explosive threats. In 2006, the program transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), with program execution supported by subject matter experts from S&T’s Transportation Security Laboratory.

Last Updated: July 29, 2021 | Site Page

Counter Terrorist

S&T advances research and development technologies, methods, and procedures to counter terrorist attacks.

Last Updated: November 19, 2020 | Publication

ST-DHS SBIR Success Story Explosives Detection Technology

This success story highlights the DHS SBIR company Polestar Technologies, Inc., of Needham Heights, Massachusetts, which developed a portable system for stand-off detection of concealed explosives to detect and identify different types of explosives.