Capabilities
LACED is built upon Los Alamos’ unparalleled explosives detection capabilities derived from the expertise of award-winning scientists and state-of-the-art facilities.
Key capabilities necessary to ensure national security
Through LACED, Los Alamos offers the following capabilities:
Explosives Science capabilities include:
- Analytical chemistry
- Micromechanical testing
- Performance testing of explosives from bench scale to demonstration scale
- Polymorphism
- Sensitivity testing
- Spectroscopy
- Surface/interface science
- Synthesis/formulation of explosives
Anticipate-Affect capabilities include:
- Conducting socio-cultural modeling to better understand and identify what influences, characterizes, and enables human networks to carry out asymmetric acts
- Data mining and analytics to collect and evaluate social and cultural behavior
- Executing persistent surveillance
- Training in improvised explosive threats
Detect capabilities include:
- Advanced image analysis
- Exquisite surveillance technologies
- Fundamental improvements to existing technologies
- IED location-independent detection
- Remote selective trace detection of explosive vapors/residues
- Standoff detection of physical and chemical signatures from manufacturing and concealed deployment
- Standoff high-selectivity spectroscopy of explosive vapors, residues, or bulk
- Standoff stimulation of signatures released from explosive bulks, with signature analysis
Neutralize & Mitigate capabilities include:
- Airframe modeling
- Blast event shaping
- Detonation physics and chemistry
- Disruptive technologies
- Electromagnetic Energy (EME) coupling
- High-performance, multifunctional materials
- Shielding paradigms designed to protect personal
- Threat scenario modeling