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neu-VISION™ AS – Family of explosives detection products for checked baggage screening

neu-VISION™ | Baggage Scanning | Vehicle Scanning

Terrorists were targeting commercial airliners long before the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Despite heightened security measures, commercial airliners remain an attractive target for terrorists, as evidenced by the August 2006 terrorist plot to destroy as many as ten aircraft in mid-flight from the United Kingdom to the United States.

Air carriers are now required to screen 100% of all checked baggage for explosives. It has been estimated that, in the United States alone, airline passengers check more than 1 billion bags each year. The scale of this task is enormous. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has made good progress in its checked baggage screening operations and has deployed thousands of detection and identification equipment in airports throughout the United States, but these systems are not ideal. Further improvements are needed, and can only be made with new technologies that ensure a flexible concept of operations (CONOPS) and provide superior detection along with low false alarm rates and excellent dependability.

Applied Signal Technology, Inc. is developing an innovative and practical solution to meet the performance demands of the aviation security industry. The neu-VISION™ AS is a high performance explosives detection system for checked baggage screening that both complements and surpasses currently deployed detection and identification equipment.

The system uses neutron interrogation technology in a configuration that provides superior performance both when integrated with an existing checked baggage inspection system or as a stand-alone unit. Portable configurations add another dimension to the flexible CONOPS provided by this exciting new technology.

neu-VISION AS leverages the associated particle imaging (API) technique that has been a central theme of our R&D programs for the past five years. The modular design provides excellent dependability and simplifies installation into existing baggage inspection systems. The superior performance afforded by this neutron interrogation technique delivers false alarm rates much lower than current industry standards. The system “sees through” even dense, heavy materials. Small quantities of explosive material are detected, even in the cluttered environment that is typical of checked baggage. The automatic operator alert feature minimizes the need for operator interpretation and thus reduces the percentage of human error.

Features
	Identification of explosives without ambiguity, even in a cluttered environment
	Low false alarm rate
	High throughput
	High penetration
	3-D imaging
	Fixed-site and portable configurations available
Benefits
	Reliable detection and identification of small quantities of explosive material, even in a cluttered environment
	Ability to “see through” heavy materials
	Instant alert warning when threats are detected, which minimizes the need for operator interpretation, thus reducing the percentage of human error
	False alarm rate superior to conventional techniques (as low as 1% is achievable under certain conditions)
	Flexible CONOPS; offered as an integrated solution with existing x-ray baggage screening equipment, or as a stand-alone explosives detection baggage screening system
neu-VISION™ – Advanced technology for safety in our skies

For more information about this product, contact us at customer@appsig.com or request a data sheet.