Chemical detector.Your article in the April issue of ND on Chem-Bio gear (U.S. Rushes to Upgrade Chem-Bio Gear, pg. 24) was on target for the most part, but you missed one of the critical pieces of equipment to protect our soldiers in the current conflict, the ACADA ACADA Automatic Chemical Agent Alarm (current definition) ACADA Automatic Chemical Agent Detector/Alarm (former definition) ACADA Avery Citizens Against Domestic Abuse (Newland, NC) . The Automatic Chemical Agent Detector and Alarm, has been fielded in large quantities (exact numbers are classified), and to date has not had one false alarm over the course of this conflict with Iraq. ACADA was developed under an IPT IPT - IP Telephony (Integrated Product Team) with SBCCOM SBCCOM Soldier & Biological Chemical Command (US Army) and Smiths Detection which bas produced the most reliable and trusted chemical detector in history. The base technology for this system is Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) and has been proven to work in arguably one of the worlds harshest warfare environments. Your readers and the current generation of soldiers need to know research, development and production is working, and ACADA is the successful result of such an effort. Andrew Wilson JGW JGW Jeep Grand Wagoneer JGW Jtapi Gateway GROUP, FAIRFAX, VA |
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