Bruker Daltonics wins $1.7 million Army contract
RAID-M chemical weapons detectors already a hit with German and Danish forces; devices will support the National Guard WMD Civil Support Teams’ Analytical Laboratory System
In Mel Brooks’s comic masterpiece Young Frankenstein, horses are heard whinnying at every mention of the name “Frau Blucher.” In the homeland security business, it is the name “Bruker” that constantly earns a response — Billerica, Massachusetts-based Bruker Daltonics that is, and the tone is typically much more respectful. Consider this concrete example: the company this week announced that it had received a $1.7 million U.S. Army contract to provide its RAID-M handheld chemical agent detectors to support the National Guard WMD Civil Support Teams’ Analytical Laboratory System (ALS). “The National Guard ALS mission will span two important applications, in both defense and homeland security,” said Bruker Daltonics’s Frank Thibodeau. The company is expected to deliver most of the systems by the end of 2007.
As we reported last year, the RAID-M is the only chemical detector to be designated by DHS as “anti-terrorist technology” and as an “approved product for homeland security.” The newest version, the RAID-M-100, is designed to be operated with one hand and is able to detect, classify, and quantify chemical agents by class or by specific agent, together with the measured concentration range. The system is in service with the German army and navy, as well as with the Danish armed forces.
-read more in this company news release
