DARPA project seeks bacteria that can detect hidden bombs

Raytheon has announced that it is working with DARPA on a project for detecting buried explosives using a unique method: bacteria. The work is taking place under a contract from the agency; Worcester Polytechnic Institute joins Raytheon in ‘programming’ two different bacteria strains to detect bombs located underground. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contracts with a number … Continue reading