Detection, Inspection, and Enforcement Technologies

The goal of this program is to manage programs, direct research and development efforts, and develop performance standards, guidelines and reports for equipment for detection, inspection, and enforcement in support of the goals and priorities of both NIST and the outside agency sponsors. To provide technical support to the traffic enforcement system as administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).

As America's homeland security efforts to detect, locate, and interdict threats intensify, the work of OLES' Detection, Inspection and Enforcement Technologies (DIET) program becomes increasingly more important. DIET is responsible for a technologically broad portfolio. The program areas of DIET presently are: 

• Concealed Weapon and Contraband Detection, Locating, and Imaging
• Imaging Metrology  
• Biometric Recognition
• Traffic Enforcement Technologies
• Through-Barrier Detecting, Locating, Tracking, and Imaging
• Weapon Performance Characterization