SBIR/STTR Research Award
Field-Deployable Explosives Detection System
Award amount
$99,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1996Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Quantum Magnetics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The goal of this program is to design, build, and test a cart-portable UXO and land mine detector with tethered, hand-held wands for scanning the ground. The detector will be based upon nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) technology, a variant of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology which does not require an applied magnetic field and has high chemical specificity. The UXO/land mine detector will initially be designed and built to detect RDX-based explosives, but will be upgradeable to TNT-based explosives as the technology evolves. Phase I will consist of a comprehensive laboratory study and analysis of the relationship between enclosed-volume NQR detection of explosives and single-sided NQR detection of explosives. The laboratory tests will be carried out at field-level concentrations in the presence of common environmental interferents, and will provide all of the information needed to design a prototype UXO/land mine detection system.
Technology keywords
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