Homeland Security Sees Lasers and Heart Sensors in the Future of Anti-Terror Screening

The Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA) wants to build a system that fuses information from remote eye, heart, breath and brain sensors and lasar radar to decide if you are a terrorist before letting you on that flight to LAs Vegas. The fuser will be the brains of the Future Attribute Screening Technology Project. And HSARPA wants the fuser to be a wicked smart learner. The group is so intent on bringing on the future, it is currently soliciting information from outside groups in hopes of making it show up faster. Persons involved in or planning to be involved in possible malicious or deceitful acts will show various behavioral or physiological abnormalities. Though these signs can, at times, be detected by trained observers, they often go undetected and even when detected, are not quantified in any measurable way. [Q]uantifiable inputs may include cardiovascular, respiration, infrared, lidar (ed. Note: lasar radar) , video, audio, eye tracking as well as other promising technology capable of providing behavioral indicators. The goal is to take the individual outputs of the distinct sensors and combine them into a decision matrix in order to provide a single decision.