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LENOIR CITY, Tenn., Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sterling Global Operations has been awarded a contract to conduct demining and battle area clearance operations throughout Afghanistan. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130205/CL54289-a )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130205/CL54289LOGO-b ) Some 700-1,000 Sterling Global Operations (SGO) employees will carry out the project, called Afghan-Wide Mine and Battle Area Clearance, which will safely and efficiently...

A chemical sensing system developed by engineers at the University of Connecticut is believed to be the first of its kind capable of detecting vapors from buried landmines and other explosive devices with the naked eye rather than advanced scientific instrumentation. The research was first reported in the May 11, 2012 online edition of Advanced Functional Materials. The key to the system is a fluorescent nanofiberous film that can detect ultra-trace levels of explosive vapors and buried...

LONDON, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Bobby Charlton, the celebrated Manchester United football legend, announced today the establishment of a registered charity to pursue a cause for which he has served as a vocal spokesman since 2005. Charlton witnessed firsthand the impact of landmines on the lives of children in Bosnia and Cambodia during his travels and vowed to make a difference. "To clear the 110 million active landmines in place using current technologies would cost an estimated...

DUBAI, UAE, September 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Once again, Air Charter International has shown its capabilities of dealing with difficult air charter missions. The summer of 2011 ended well for the Air Charter International team as they successfully completed the shipment of an outsized de-mining machine from Europe to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. For several years now, efforts have been put into place to make Afghanistan a mine free country by 2013. As such several...

MARYVILLE, Tenn., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- RELYANT, LLC, a Maryville-based company providing worldwide strategic support services, has received notification of award for a $49 million contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan Engineering South District. RELYANT will provide unexploded ordnance (UXO) removal and mine clearance in southern and western Afghanistan. The company anticipates adding up to 200 new employees at its facilities in Afghanistan and Maryville. The...

Anyone who is an online shopper and humanitarian might find this research project appealing. Physics professor John Scales is working on a low-cost, human-focused, high technology effort to stop the devastation of unexploded buried land mines with a novel acoustical/microwave detection system. The work is described in the Journal of Applied Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).In a project sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Army Research Office,...

LENOIR CITY, Tenn., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- EOD Technology, Inc. (EODT) will support the U.S. Forces in Afghanistan by providing mine and battle area clearance services by mobile teams under a contract with an estimated ceiling value of $60 million awarded by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (USAESCH). Under this contract, EODT will provide clearance of munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) including landmines, and munitions material potentially presenting an...

A team of European researchers has devised a method for locating plastic anti-personnel mines, which are manufactured to avoid detection by metal detectors. The technique involves analyzing the temperature of the ground in three dimensions using specific software and hardware, according to a study published in the journal Computers & Geosciences."Detecting anti-personnel mines is a very important and costly area of humanitarian work, and uncovering plastic mines is particularly hard,...

Scientists have developed a simple, cheap, accurate test to find undetected landmines.Students from the University of Edinburgh have created a custom-made bacteria that glows green when it comes into contact with chemicals leaked by buried explosives.The bacteria can be mixed into a colorless solution that, when sprayed on to the ground, forms green patches to indicate the presence of landmines.Researchers say that the organism, which is cheap to produce, could be delivered from the air onto...

Authorities in Cincinnati said the bomb squad was called to dispose of a land mine discovered in the garage of a home. Police said the Cincinnati Bomb Squad was called to the home Sunday afternoon by the resident who found the device and the mine was safely destroyed, WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, reported Monday. Bomb squad officers did not say whether the mine was active and they did not specify whether the device was destroyed at the scene or taken to a secure location for detonation. No one was...