Last week, the Department of Defense awarded a $48,200,000 firm-fixed-price cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Science, Engineering and Technology Associates, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAIC (SAI), which will provide US Army troops with, in a nutshell, suicide bomber detectors. As described on SET's website, the "SET CounterBomber system integrates radar and video to yield the first-ever system capable of automatically detecting suicide bombers at safe distances." It "employs visible or IR video cameras to automatically track subjects, and a low-power radar to interrogate them when cued by video." Then, after "automatically assessing the threat in real time, CounterBomber supports the response team...