Sensors for Immune Buildings (SIB)

This Program develops point and stand-off sensors to enable the protection of military facilities and the associated military and civilian work forces. The Program provides facility chemical/biological (CB) detection and identification capabilities as follows:

• Improves the false alarm rate of current sensors by providing a point chemical threat agent sensor which can rapidly verify the presence of acute levels of threat chemical agents after an initial detection by existing chemical agent alarms
• Provides a capability for fast detection of acute, high level attacks by providing a point sensor which can detect, identify, and verify toxic industrial chemicals (TICs)
• Provides a capability for detection of chronic low level attacks by providing a point chemical threat agent and TIC sensor which can detect, identify, and verify chemical threat agents at extremely low levels
• Improves the detection-to-treatment timelines by providing an autonomous, rapid, on-site, point biological threat agent detection and identification capability
• Improves the agent viability testing timelines by developing novel methods for rapid viability testing for selected biological threat agents
• Provides a capability for continuous, autonomous, remote surveillance for chemical agents and TICs
• This Program is not intended to replace the existing tactical CB sensors, which have been hardened and ruggedized for their battlefield applications. However, many of the technologies being developed for building protection will also be suitable for tactical applications once they have been hardened and ruggedized.