NEMA Develops DICOS

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NEMA Develops DICOS

• Digital Imaging and Communication in Security
  (DICOS) based on DICOM
• Objectives include
• Systems integration to achieve a seamless flow of
  information
• Upgrade currently deployed technologies to
  address emerging threats and concealment methods.
• Facilitates interoperability of security-imaging
  equipment
• DICOS will capture scans of checked baggage so
  that scans can be read by threat detection
  software

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NEMA Develops DICOS

• Supported by U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  and Transportation Security Association
• Current companies participating are
• GE
• Analogic
• L-3 Communications
• Siemens

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NEMA Develops DICOS

• NEMA Organized Industrial Imaging and
  Communication Section
• Goal to be principal source of technical,
  training and educational information on Security
  and Industrial Imaging.