HPC - People Screening: Weapon & Explosive Detection Product Report - 2003

SUMMARY

How to Find the Right Product

More than 90 systems and technologies, offered by more than 30 different vendors compete for your attention and your budget.

The decision is not going to be simple. A metal detection gate is not an expensive product. It will probably cost you upwards of $10,000 dollars. But the real expense in weapon detection is in the personnel. Operators may cost you upwards of $500,000 dollars per year.

That is the kind of insight, among many others, that the 2003 People Screening: Weapon & Explosive Detection - Product Report gives you.

Featured in this Report

The 2003 People Screening: Weapon & Explosive Detection - Product Report covers the following products/technologies:

• Hand-Held Metal Detectors
• Walk-Through Metal Detectors
• Trace/Vapor Explosives Detectors (Hand-Held, Desktop, Mobile and Stationary Systems
• Walk-Through Explosives Detectors
• Bulk Explosives Detectors

For each technology, the report describes existing vendors and products, and provides a much needed analysis of the crucial operational and ownership aspects such as:

• Cost of transaction - The cost of screening a single person
• Cost of ownership - The cost of owning the product and its service
• Cost of maintenance - The cost of keeping the product running
• Cost of personnel - The cost of operating the product, including training.

The Homeland Security Research team of experts and analysts worked for a year to give you a clear, usable and relevant comparison of available technologies prices [including U.S. government prices] and products. The report explains available technologies clearly and concisely, presents product specifications in an easy-to-compare table format, and accompanies every subject with a no-nonsense discussion covering every important financial and operational aspect.

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This report is designed to give Security planners, CSOs, purchasing personnel, public, and private sector executives a clear picture of the performance, economics and operational aspects of each available system and technology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. SCOPE

2. HAND-HELD WEAPON DETECTORS

2.1. PURPOSE OF WEAPON DETECTION SCREENING

2.2. HAND-HELD WEAPON DETECTORS - PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION

2.3. HAND-HELD WEAPON DETECTORS - ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

2.3.1. Cost of Ownership

2.3.2. Cost of Service

2.3.3. Cost of Personnel and Personnel Training

2.3.4. Cost of Transaction

2.4 STATE OF DEVELOPMENT

2.5 STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

2.6 HAND-HELD WEAPON DETECTORS - VENDOR INFORMATION

2.7 HAND-HELD WEAPON DETECTORS - VENDOR PROFILES

2.8 HAND-HELD WEAPON DETECTORS - PRODUCTS COMPARISON DATA

2.8.1. Comparison Table Specification Definitions

2.8.2. Abbreviations

2.8.3. Product Comparison Tables

2.8.4. Price Comparison Tables

2.9 HAND-HELD WEAPON DETECTORS - PURCHASING CONSIDERATIONS

3. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES

3.1. PURPOSE OF WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES

3.2. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES - PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION

3.3. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES -ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

3.3.1. Cost of Ownership

3.3.2. Cost of Service Considerations

3.3.3. Cost of Personnel and Personnel Training

3.3.4. Cost of Transaction

3.5. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES - STATE OF DEVELOPMENT

3.6. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

3.7. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES - VENDOR INFORMATION

3.8. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES - VENDOR PROFILES

3.9. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES - COMPARISON DATA

3.9.1. Comparison Table Specification Definitions

3.9.2. Abbreviations

3.9.3. Product Comparison Tables

3.9.4. Pricing Comparison Tables

3.10. WALK-THROUGH WEAPON (METAL) DETECTION GATES - PURCHASING CONSIDERATIONS

4. EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS

4.1. PURPOSE OF HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS

4.2. HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION

4.3. HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

4.3.1. Cost of Ownership

4.3.2. Cost of Service Considerations

4.3.3. Cost of Personnel and Personnel Training

4.3.4. Cost of Transaction

4.4. HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS STATE OF DEVELOPMENT

4.5. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

4.6. HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS VENDOR INFORMATION

4.7. HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS VENDOR PROFILES

4.8. COMPARISON DATA

4.8.1. Comparison Table Specification Definitions

4.8.2. Abbreviations

4.8.3. Product Comparison Tables

4.8.4. Pricing Comparison Tables

4.9. HAND-HELD EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS PURCHASING CONSIDERATIONS

5. PEOPLE SCREENING - WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS

5.1. PURPOSE OF WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS

5.2. WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION

5.3. WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

5.3.1. Cost of Ownership

5.3.2. Cost of Service Considerations

5.3.3. Cost of Personnel and Personnel Training

5.3.4. Cost of Transaction

5.4. WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS STATE OF DEVELOPMENT

5.5. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

5.6. WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS VENDOR INFORMATION

5.7. WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS VENDOR PROFILES

5.8. COMPARISON DATA

5.8.1. Comparison Table Specification Definitions

5.8.2. Abbreviations

5.8.3. Product Comparison Tables

5.8.4. Pricing Comparison Tables

5.9. WALK-THROUGH EXPLOSIVES TRACE DETECTORS PURCHASING CONSIDERATIONS

List of Figures

Figure 1: People Screening - Modalities

Figure 2: Cost of Infrastructure Construction for People Screening Equipment

Figure 3: Air Transportation -Points of Potential Vulnerability

Figure 4: Office Building - Potential Vulnerabilities

Figure 5: People Screening - Threats and Associated Detection Technologies

Figure 6: People-screening Modalities Vs Technologies

Figure 7: People-Screening Explosive-Detection Methods

Figure 8: Trace Detection Technologies - Sensitivity Comparison

Figure 9: Hand-Held Weapon Detector - Proper Scanning Path

Figure 10: Weapon-Detection Gates - Current Technologies

Figure 11: Active EM Field Weapon-Detection Gates -Product Type Comparison

Figure 12: Active EM Weapon-Detection Gate - Matrix Type

Figure 13: Weapon-Detection Gates - False Alarm Impact on Throughput

Figure 14: Weapon-Detection Gates - Nationwide Cost of Ownership ($M)

Figure 15: Weapon-Detection Gates - Cost of Personnel

Figure 16: Trace Detection Technologies Introduction

Figure 17 : The Airborne Concentration of Various "Open Can" Explosives

Figure 18: Typical Sensitivity of Various Explosive Trace Detection Technologies

Figure 19: Ion Mobility Spectroscopy

Figure 20: Chemiluminescence

Figure 21: Electron Capture Detection

Figure 22: Surface Acoustic Wave Detectors

List of Tables

Table 1 - Trace Detection Technologies - Pros and Cons

Table 2 - Trace Explosive-detection Technologies

Table 3 - Explosives Trace Detection - Comparison Tables

Table 4 - Explosives Trace Detection - Product Pricing

Table 5: People-Screening Trace Explosive-detection Technologies

Table 6: Magnetism and Detection Capabilities

Table 7: Conductivity and Detection Capabilities

Table 8: Weapon-Detection Gates - Types and Features

Table 9: Hand-Held Weapon Detectors - Product Comparison Table

Table 10: Walk-Through Weapon (Metal) Detection Gates - Product Comparison Table

Table 11: Explosives Trace detectors Product Comparison Tables

Table 12: Walkthrough Trace detectors Product Comparison Tables