GD to implement Safefreight's hazardous tracking solution
There are more than 800,000 hazardous materials and dangerous waste shipments in the United States per day; if even one of these shipments were to be seized by terrorists and used as a weapon, results could be catastrophic; GD selects a fleet-tracking solution from a Canadian company for implementation and demonstration as part of a TSA project to improve the safety of hauling dangerous materials
There are more than 800,000 hazardous materials and dangerous waste shipments in the United States per day. The possibility that even one of these shipments could be used as a weapon in a terrorist attack should surely concentrate our the minds.
Edmondon, Alberta, Canada-based Safefreight Technology has developed a GPS fleet-tracking and trailer-security technology — the solution is called SmartFleet — and that technology will now be used by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in a $3.1 million contract awarded by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under the agency’s Hazmat Truck Security Pilot (HTSP) program. The agreement calls for General Dynamics to implement and demonstrate SmartFleet. SmartFleet includes a standards-compliant direct link to the HTSP Universal Communications Interface (UCI) which will be providing location and on-board sensor data in real time to the TSA Truck Tracking Center.
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