{"id":24924,"date":"2016-04-23T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/iarpa-wants-a-hand-held-laser-gun-that-can-detect-chemicals-100-feet-away"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:49","slug":"iarpa-wants-a-hand-held-laser-gun-that-can-detect-chemicals-100-feet-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/iarpa-wants-a-hand-held-laser-gun-that-can-detect-chemicals-100-feet-away","title":{"rendered":"IARPA Wants a Hand-Held Laser Gun That Can Detect Chemicals 100 Feet Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iarpa-wants-a-hand-held-laser-gun-that-can-detect-chemicals-100-feet-away.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The creative acronym \u2013 SILMARILS \u2013 comes from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lotr.wikia.com\/wiki\/Silmaril\">Lord of the Ring\u2019s<\/a>\u201d magical lore. IARPA\u2019s goals for the project are anything but fictional.<\/p>\n<p>Current technologies for detecting narcotics, explosives and other dangerous chemicals requires physical contact between humans and X-ray-based machinery like those stationed within major airports that scan suitcases and luggage.<\/p>\n<p>In other cases, a human must swab samples of a substance and run them through a similar machine, which is time and labor consuming and risky.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.nextgov.com\/nextgov\/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextgov.com%2Fdefense%2F2016%2F04%2Fiarpa-wants-hand-held-laser-gun-can-detect-chemicals-100-feet-away%2F127732%2F\">http:\/\/cdn.nextgov.com\/nextgov\/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=...F127732%2F<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creative acronym \u2013 SILMARILS \u2013 comes from \u201cLord of the Ring\u2019s\u201d magical lore. IARPA\u2019s goals for the project are anything but fictional. Current technologies for detecting narcotics, explosives and other dangerous chemicals requires physical contact between humans and X-ray-based machinery like those stationed within major airports that scan suitcases and luggage. In other cases, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2414,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67660,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions\/67660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}