Knowledge-based system to aid in suicide bomber detection

Pasadena, California-based Viaspace, a company specializing in commercializing proven technologies from NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, has received a new contract from a defense contractor for software development for a suicide bomb detection system. This is a new, multi-phased program for Viaspace Security, a wholly owned Viaspace subsidiary. Viaspace will provide the overall software architecture and development of specific algorithms and operational software needed for actual bomb detection. The suicide bomb detection system will be built around NASA’s SHINE knowledge-based tool. Viaspace has an exclusive license from Caltech to commercialize NASA’s SHINE real-time inference engine technology for most major applications including defense applications, homeland defense, maritime security, and diagnostics/prognostics. A. J. Abdallat, President of VIASPACE Security, commented: “We are pleased to begin this new effort in pursuit of a solution to the threat from suicide bombs. This is a serious problem, and we see this as a tremendous opportunity for Viaspace Security. We believe that our sensor data fusion and SHINE inference engine technologies will play a key role in solutions to improve the detection of explosives carried by suicide bombers.”

The suicide bomb detection program is one of several major initiatives on the part of the Department of Defense and DHS. Viaspace Security is targeting this growing, $20 Billion market, believing that its real-time sensor fusion technology and high speed inference engine can offer substantial benefit in the market.