Industry Quotations

“Since many threats are people-borne, and with the unfortunate 'popularisation' of suicide attack modes, the people screening sector is a primary area of urgent activity. Ostensibly, industry has to come up with a totally new way of screening people.”
Dan Inbar, Homeland Security Research Corporation, 22-Oct-2003

"Present People Screening technology does not meet the post 9/11 requirements. The technology will undergo dramatic technological changes when the multiple-threats ‘checkpoint of the future’ will be introduced by 2006. The accumulated US investment in people screening during the 2003-2010 period will be over $50 billion."
Conclusions from ‘People Screening Weapon and Explosives Detection Market Report 2003- 2010’ by Homeland Security Research Corporation, Oct. 2002

"...but other technologies, namely mm-wave, are also emerging. The promise of this technology was recognised in the FAA’s new rule for Avionic Enhanced Vision Systems, and many feel that this may be the ultimate solution for all-weather operations"
Glenn Connor, President of Discover Technology International, a specialist in advanced avionics in extract from Professional Pilot, June 2003

"A young mother blew herself up at the entrance to a security inspection centre, killing four security personnel"
International Herald Tribune, Jan. 15th, 2004


(The HSRC, October 2002, concludes that Millimetre-Wave Technology is currently the only option for detecting weapons and explosives on people in a standoff screening mode, decreasing the vulnerability of the operator).