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COSMIC Press Release
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 25-27, the COSMIC partners met in Tel-Aviv, Israel, in order to update, discuss and plan the project’s activities.
The project’s ongoing Technology Development Action Plan for the technology partners’ various chemical, biological, explosive and nuclear sensors as well as the system analytics and management software has been reviewed and refined, following detailed development status and interdependency updates.

COSMIC June 2019 consortium meeting in Tel Aviv
COSMIC project partners, June 2019 Tel Aviv
Likewise, the Preparation Plan for the project’s three Field-Trials in Rotterdam, Valencia
As part of the meeting, the partners toured the Haifa Field-Trial
The project’s past, near-term and future deliverables, as well as the future consortium meeting plan, have jointly been discussed and planned.
Important ethics, security, quality
Dissemination activities, including close cooperation with ENCIRCLE, have been reported on and planned for the upcoming periods.
“The consortium proudly summarizes a successful, collaborative project initialization period, and looks forward to the delivering the project’s intermediate
CONTACT INFORMATION
For additional information about COSMIC, visit https://www.cosmic-cbrne.eu/
Or contact the Project Coordinator via email: David Yaish – david@lingacom.com
COSMIC Consortium meeting in Tel Aviv June 2019
25-27 June, 2019 Tel Aviv
COSMIC Press Release
14, May 2019
https://www.cosmic-cbrne.eu
COSMIC awarded 3.5 Million Euro for inspection system to detect CBRNE threats in containers
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 14, 2019 – Lingacom Ltd., a provider of muon-based detection solutions, announced today that the COMSIC Consortium has been awarded a 3.5 million Euro contract by the European Commission’s prestigious Horizon 2020 Research Funding Programme for the development of an advanced inspection system for CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives) threats in shipping containers.
The threat of CBRNE materials used by terrorists is a major concern for EU and worldwide security. At present, high throughput, efficient inspection for CBRNE in containers is still a key challenge. The challenge of improving container border crossing and critical infrastructure entrance security checkpoints is of global importance in fighting terrorist threats, theft and smuggling.

COSMIC project partners, December 2018 Rotterdam
The COSMIC project brings together nine organizations to bridge the gap for fast inspection of large number of containers at seaports and at crossing borders checkpoints for CBRNE threats. The project includes 3 commercial companies (Lingacom, SEADM and ATOS), three research institutes (Technion, Ben-Gurion University and the Spanish National Research Council), and three end-users (Dutch Customs Administration, Israel National police and Spain’s Guardia Civil).
The 30-month project, which is co-funded by the European Commission, started in October 2018. A kick-off meeting was held in Rotterdam on December 2018 and the next meeting will be held in Tel Aviv in June, 2019. The project will be finalized during 2021 by three-field test that will be hosted by the end-user partners at three seaports in Europe and Israel.
COSMIC project brings an innovative system solution based on a three-stage architecture, employing a combination of new CBRNE sensors. The COSMIC three-stage solution has been optimized to facilitate fast and reliable detection of CBRNE threats in shipping containers. COSMIC’s innovative sensors include chemical and explosives sensors for both primary and secondary stages, biological sensors capable to analyze biological threats (bacteria and viruses) at the field and a new approach for primary and secondary detection of shielded nuclear and radioactive materials using a muon cosmic ray sensor.
“This new contract enables COSMIC project to support the European Commission’s objective to protect European citizens from transported CBRNE threats” said David Yaish, Lingacom CEO and COSMIC project Coordinator.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For additional information about COSMIC, visit https://www.cosmic-cbrne.eu/
Or contact the Project Coordinator via email: David Yaish – david@lingacom.com
NCT Europe 2019
25-27, June 2019
http://nct-europe.com/
CBRNE Research & Innovation
20-23 May 2019, Nantes France
https://cbrneconference.fr/
COSMIC presentation at ENCIRCLE booth.
13th Meeting of the Community of Users on Secure, Safe, Resilient Societies
25 – 29 March 2019, Brussels
https://www.securityresearch-cou.eu/node/9200
Meetings with COSMIC coordinator Mr. David Yaish speaker at “Sub-theme 1.1 – New Actions in CBRN” panel.
First International workshop Fh Vorarlberg of Spectrometry for Security Applications
10-13 Feb, 2019 Austria.
https://www.fhv.at/sfs/
COSMIC partner (SEADM) presentation.
EU-US meeting on chemical threats detection capabilities meeting
7th of Feb, 2019 Brussels.
Meetings with COSMIC partner (SEADM).
Kick off meeting in Rotterdam
19-20 December, 2018 Rotterdam.
SRE SECURITY RESEARCH EVENT
5-6 December, 2018 BRUSSELS.
https://www.securityresearch-cou.eu/node/9196
COSMIC presentation at ENCIRCLE booth.