{"id":31933,"date":"2016-11-14T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/citywide-test-of-darpas-radioactive-threat-detection-system-complete"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:13:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:13:28","slug":"citywide-test-of-darpas-radioactive-threat-detection-system-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/citywide-test-of-darpas-radioactive-threat-detection-system-complete","title":{"rendered":"Citywide test of DARPA\u2019s radioactive threat detection system complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GFJoDV1J0kQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not trying to throw stones; however, why didn\u2019t they just connect with the DoE as they already (for 2 decades) had an real-time solution doing this type of tracking.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) \u2014 The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed the first citywide assessment of its SIGMA radioactive threat detection system.<\/p>\n<p>SIGMA is designed to aid defense personnel with responding to potential nuclear and radiological threats such as dirty bombs. The recent deployment test involved 1,000 detectors and over 100 mobile sensors, marking the largest demonstration of its kind in the program\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SIGMA system performed very well, and we collected and analyzed a huge amount of streaming data as we watched in real-time as participants covered a large portion of D.C.,\u201d DARPA program manager Vincent Tang said in a <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2016-10-11\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>. \u201cThe data collected is already proving invaluable for further development of the system, and we\u2019re excited that SIGMA is on track to provide U.S. cities an enhanced layer of defense against radiological and nuclear threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Business_News\/Security-Industry\/2016\/11\/14\/Citywide-test-of-DARPAs-radioactive-threat-detection-system-complete\/6741479136365\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Business_News\/Security-Industry\/2016\/11\/1...479136365\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not trying to throw stones; however, why didn\u2019t they just connect with the DoE as they already (for 2 decades) had an real-time solution doing this type of tracking. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) \u2014 The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed the first citywide assessment of its SIGMA radioactive threat detection system. SIGMA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933","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=31933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59754,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933\/revisions\/59754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}