MobiHealth News February 20, 2024
The company signed a research contract with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.
Detect-Ion, a startup focused on the detection and identification of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive substances, announced it had secured a research contract with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a government agency within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to develop a sensor to identify aerosol-based chemical threats.
The company will use the funding to develop a compact or “low-SWaP” (size, weight and power) sensor platform called Spectral to detect the presence of hazardous aerosols in complex urban environments.
Detect-Ion will leverage AI to help detect and identify aerosolized chemical threats and work with three...