Guardian Believes Standard Will Open Security Imaging Market to Third Party Vendors.

A new standard being sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that will allow software firms the ability to access data from airport security imaging technologies such as X-Ray machines should be ready this summer, allowing third party vendors to eventually begin offering DHS and other customers software products that will greatly improve the capabilities of current scanning systems, according to officials from Guardian Technologies International [GDTI].

Once the Digital Imaging in Communications for Security Standard (DICOS) is adopted, "you will have a common playing filed and [then] you have the capability where a third party solution like our PinPoint [software] product can be readily deployed against any manufacturer's scanning platform," Michael Trudnak, chairman and CEO of Guardian Technologies, …