ICx™ Mesosystems Wins R&D 100 Award for AirSentinel® Sensor
MesoSystems, an ICx company, is a 2006 R&D 100 award winner. The R&D 100 independent review panel considers new technology product innovations from around the globe and selects the 100 most significant achievements. The MesoSystems AirSentinel biological threat sensor is among this year's award recipients.
As a part of the ICx Detection division, MesoSystems is a leader in the development of biological agent sensors. The AirSentinel is a highly sensitive, continuously operating sensor that detects potentially harmful airborne biological threats. Since biological threats are not detectable by human senses, aerosolized threats may incubate and spread unbeknownst to those who inhale the threat. Rather than wait for those exposed to exhibit symptoms, the AirSentinel enables near-real-time detection. This early warning enables remediation that can limit both illness and facilities contamination to take place. Functionally similar to a smoke-alarm, AirSentinel is an affordable approach to biological threat detection.
"The new threats facing the world today require new thinking," says Hans Kobler, CEO of ICx Technologies. "The AirSentinel is just one of a wide range of detection technologies innovated at ICx that provide the accuracy necessary for use in the real world."
"The R&D 100 Award affirms that our company is creating an important and meaningful product," explained Ezra Merrill, MesoSystems, Director of Sales and Marketing. "I would like to acknowledge our DARPA and DTRA sponsors who have guided the development of this unique sensor technology," concluded Merrill.
About FLIR Systems
FLIR Systems, Inc. is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of sensor systems that enhance perception and awareness. The Company’s advanced thermal imaging and threat detection systems are used for a wide variety of imaging, thermography, and security applications, including airborne and ground-based surveillance, condition monitoring, research and development, manufacturing process control, search and rescue, drug interdiction, navigation, transportation safety, border and maritime patrol, environmental monitoring, and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) detection. Visit the Company's web site at www.FLIR.com.
The statements in this release by Earl R. Lewis, and the other statements in this release about the award described above, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including the following: the ability to manufacture and deliver the systems referenced in this release, changes in demand for the Company's products, product mix, the timing of deliveries under the award discussed above, the impact of competitive products and pricing, constraints on supplies of critical components, excess or shortage of production capacity, the ability of the Company to manufacture and ship products in the time period required, actual purchases under agreements, the Company's continuing compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, the timely receipt of export licenses for international shipments, the continuing eligibility of the Company to act as a federal contractor, and other risks discussed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general domestic and international economic conditions. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release, or for changes made to this document by wire services or Internet service providers.
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