DARPA Turned Washington D.C.'s Ambulances Into Dirty Bomb Detectors
Terrell Jermaine Starr
3/03/17 12:58pmFiled to: DARPA
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Would-be terrorists may have a harder time using a disastrous weapon on Washington D.C. now that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has tricked out some of the District’s EMS vehicles. The agency announced this week that for the past few months it’s been using 73 radiation and nuclear detectors in the fleet of the city’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services ambulances to detect sources of radiation activity.
The SIGMA system is designed to scan the nation’s capital as efficiently as possible for any signs of a dirty bomb attack. So far, EMS vehicles have logged more than 100,000 hours of detector operation covering more than 150,000 miles, the agency said.
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