March 2022: LLNL – DHS / TSA Collaboration to Develop Transportation Security Systems
Thu, Mar 10
|Zoom
Join us for our monthly meeting presented by John Rodriguez!
Time & Location
Mar 10, 2022, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST
Zoom
About the Event
Presentation Title: LLNL – DHS / TSA Collaboration to Develop Transportation Security Systems
Speaker: John Rodriguez, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Presentation Summary: The DHS Science Advisor reached out to LLNL in 2005, one year before homemade explosives (HMEs) became primetime. LLNL knows how x-ray and detection systems work, thus the vendors machines, algorithms, etc. are not black boxes. After the HME threat was revealed in 2006, LLNL was the first to show that a HMEs could quickly be detected, and many of those positively characterized using x-rays. LLNL continues to work with DHS / TSA on their strategy and tactics for standing up new, enhanced HME screening programs and developing methods for standardizing x-ray units for proposed detection systems. This presentation will provide a short description of LLNL collaboration with DHS / TSA in these ongoing efforts.
Speaker Bio: John Rodriguez is a Superintendent for the Materials Engineering Division and…