September 2004

Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) Announces Isotron for Wide-Area Chemical Neutralization Contract

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology division today announced that 31 small businesses, in 16 states, have been selected for contract negotiations. These firms were chosen by the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) from applicants to the Department’s second Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program solicitation in July 2004. Participation in the HSARPA SBIR Program is restricted to for-profit small businesses in the United States with 500 or fewer employees, including all affiliated firms.

Isotron to demonstrate large-scale, broad-spectrum Radionuclide Decontamination (RD) system

Isotron will participate in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Radiation Decontamination initiative in the role of technology developer for the nation’s next generation decontamination technology. The overall goal of DARPA’s Radiation Decontamination (RD)program is to develop a system of technologies that will allow for the detection, decontamination, and controlled clean-up of radioactively contaminated buildings and military bases located downwind from an RDD event so that they can safely be reoccupied. The specific decontamination objective of this initiative is to demonstrate technologies that can decontaminate to below 1mSv/year at 1 meter distance. (For reference, living in the United States, one is exposed to more than 3mSv/year from naturally occurring background radiation.)