DHS S&T Awards $800K to Improve MagViz.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch has awarded $800,000 to a small contractor called Defense Capital Advisers LLC, to improve the detection of liquid explosives threats as part of the MagViz Bottled Liquid Screener program that is managed by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Under the contract, Univ. of California Davis chemist Matt Augustine will further develop and prototype ultra low field magnetic resonance technology so that threats can be detected through metal cans. The challenge is "Can we …