Blogging has been light this week, with some on the team out for end-of-summer vacations and Bob's out taking care of his new baby. So this week, as one political convention comes to a close and another is about to start, we wanted to highlight a story on our website about two new technologies that have been deployed in the two convention city airports. Those traveling through Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul might see these explosives and threat detection technologies that have previously been used in other modes of transportation and can be flexibly deployed to airports.
The technologies are passive millimeter wave, a mobile technology which has been used in maritime and mass transit to detect the characteristics of explosives hidden on the body. It is completely safe, non-invasive and does not store information. A hand-held spectrometer can penetrate sealed containers in seconds and identify a wide range of solid and liquid explosives using laser technology.
To learn about other ways TSA and other Department of Homeland Security components are working to keep convention travel and sites safe, check this out.
We'll get back into the regular swing of things next week, and we hope all of our readers enjoy a safe and fun Labor Day weekend.
Lynn
EoS Blog Team
