KEYWORDS: Strategic intelligence, Telecommunications, Defense and security, Data communications, Optical communications, RF communications, Information security, Information technology, Analytics
In-Q-Tel is a strategic investment firm that works to identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to
support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Launched
by the CIA in 1999 as a private, independent, not-for-profit organization, IQT's mission is to identify and partner with
companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States.
Working from an evolving strategic blueprint defining the Intelligence Community's critical technology needs, IQT
engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide
superior capabilities for the CIA and the broader IC.
To date, IQT has reviewed more than 6,300 business proposals, invested in more than 100 companies, and delivered
more than 140 technology solutions to the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Chih-Wu Su, Stephen Rigdon, Steve Ricard, David Hoglund, Gerry Drolet, Pavel Neudorfl, Michael Hupe, Terry Kunz, Sydney Ulvick, Jack Demirgian, Patrick Shier, Jeff Wingo
To form an understanding of the environment in which non- intrusive detection and inspection technologies are required to operate, the Narcotic Detection Technology assessment Team has undertaken a series of field studies. These field studies have focused on the phenomenology, fate and behavior of narcotic residue in real world environments. The overall goal of the tests is to give Law Enforcement officers the ability to accurately differentiate between individuals involved in the smuggling process and individuals innocently contaminated with narcotics. The latest filed study in this series was conducted in Miami, FL in February 1996. The field study comprised several individual tests. The first was a contamination and transfer study which focuses on human contamination resulting from contact with actual kilos of cocaine and the mechanism by which this contamination transfers to surrounding objects, if at all. The second was a secondary contamination study which focused on determining the conditions under which cocaine contamination transfers from objects touched by individuals who handled narcotics to innocent passerbys. The third was a persistence study which focused on the persistence of cocaine contamination on people under a variety of conditions. An overview of the tests and their preliminary results will be discussed.
Sydney Ulvick, Jing Cui, Terry Kunz, David Hoglund, Pierre Pilon, Andre Lawrence, Gerry Drolet, Chih-Wu Su, Stephen Rigdon, Jack Demirgian, Patrick Shier
The Narcotics Detection Technology Assessment (NDTA) program is a series of studies conducted to evaluate illicit substance detection devices. The ability to effectively detect cocaine and heroin particles is directly related to the efficiency of a detection device's sample collection design. The NDTA tests are therefore structured to require sampling of narcotics from a surface. Tests standards are required which permit subnanogram to microgram quantities of narcotic to be dispensed onto a target surface for sampling. Optimally, the standard should not adversely affect the performance of the device under test. The NDTA test team has developed and experimentally characterized solution- deposited substrate standards, solution-deposited substrate- free standards, vapor-deposited standards, suspension standards, and dry mix standards, and dry mix standards. A variety of substrates and dry-mix fillers have been evaluated, including sand, fullerenes, copper powder, nickel powder, pulverized paper, and aluminum. Suspension standards were explored with a variety of liquids. The narcotic standards with the best performance were found to be dry mixes of cocaine with silver-coated nickel powder, and dry mixes of heroin with silanized glass beads.
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