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Software to fight terrorist attacks in the works

Emergency Management Alert, March 12, 2004

A Los Angeles-bases aerospace and defense company is developing software that tracks and analyzes bioterrorism acts.

Northrop Grumman, one of the country's largest defense contractors, along with Information Builders, a private software company based in Manhattan, are working together to provide protection against bioterrorism and other terrorist activities for federal, state, and local contracts, according to Newsday.

Through use of a "smart card," which can track every employee's move, the software will compile information into a data warehouse that can read a "large amount of material, run analyses, and identify criminal patterns, and potential terrorist activity," Newsday reports.

In the bioterrorism area, data collection and analyses will come from hospitals and other healthcare facilities that might admit people suffering from a biological or chemical attack.

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