Baltimore Ravens and Orioles will lead their respective leagues in testing enhanced security after the Maryland Stadium Authority agreed to a trailblazing arrangement with Liberty Defense, a public company that recently opened a new headquarters outside of Boston in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Liberty Defense (OTCQB: LDDFF, TSXV: SCAN, FRANKFURT: LD2) secured the breakthrough beta testing agreement with the Maryland Stadium Authority that will cover the stadiums where the Baltimore Ravens play football and the Baltimore Orioles play baseball with seating capacity of 72,000 and 45,000, respectively. One of Liberty Defense’s key vertical markets is sports and entertainment venues, so adding Baltimore’s National Football League and Major League Baseball stadiums to the company’s testing marks important progress, said Bill Frain, the company’s chief executive officer.
The advanced screening machines of Liberty Defense are capable not only of detecting metal guns, but plastic improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and non-metallic, 3-D printed weapons. The beta testing in real-world facilities will help to ensure the technology is aligned to market needs and produces valuable customer feedback, he added.
Twenty years have passed since the terrorist acts of 9/11 when 19 hijackers committed murder-suicide, killing 2,977 people and injuring more than 6,000 others. That day changed the role of security technology and showed a critical need for innovation to stop those who seek to murder and terrorize others.
The Nov. 30 killing of four students, the wounding of six other teenagers and one teacher at Oxford High School in Michigan about 43 miles from Detroit and 33 miles from Flint offers the latest example of a horrific yet preventable attack. If screening machines had been in place at the school’s entrance, the gun used in the attack by a student could have been detected with law enforcement notified instantaneously.
The company’s goal is to develop “game-changing” technology with its seasoned security industry engineers who left jobs at Leidos Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LDOS) and L3 Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LHX), Frain told me in an exclusive interview. Engineers think everything through multiple times, so to see close to 10 of them come over is a very strong testament to the technologies and products of Liberty Defense, he added.
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