Security needs spawn small business programs.

• Author: Fein, Geoff S.
• Position: Security Beat - Brief Article

The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) has issued its first Small Business Innovation Research program solicitation.

The agency is seeking proposals for new technologies to detect low-vapor-pressure chemicals, chemical-biological sensors employing novel receptor scaffold, advanced low-cost aerosol collectors for surveillance sensors and personal monitoring, computer-modeling tool for vulnerability assessment of U.S. infrastructure, a marine-asset tag-tracking system, and a ship-compartment inspection device.

Participation in the HSPRA SBIR program is restricted to for-profit...