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Troy Hurtubise has done the seemingly impossible with his newest invention and defied all known rules of physics, he says. "The Angel Light”--Hurtubise claims the concept came to him in a recurring dream and can reportedly see through walls, as if there was no barrier at all. That's not all, though. So impressed, Hurtubise, 41, said the device detects stealth technology. And he's done the tests to prove it, with the covert help of scientists at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hurtubise said. If that's not enough, Hurtubise also said the French government sent representatives to North Bay to witness a demonstration of the Angel Light. Hurtubise said the reps were so impressed with the eight-foot long device they paid him $40,000 in cash to put the finishing touches on it.

"The French," Hurtubise adds, "have also agreed to pay him a substantial amount of money for the technology if it passes rigorous tests in France." "They couldn't believe what they saw." "One of them told me it was as if I' discovered a new universe. Gary Dryfoos, a consultant and former long-time instructor at MIT, said "there's a Nobel Prize" for Hurtubise if the Angel Light really performs as described. "There are laws of physics waiting to be written for what he's talking about," Dryfoos said. The French aren't the only ones interested in Hurtubise's innovations. The former head of Saudi counter-intelligence, who asked that his name not be used, has been in regular contact with Hurtubise regarding the Angel Light, fire paste, and the Light Infantry Military Blast Cushions (LIMBC).

ULTRA-WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY

While Hurtubise's claims appear, on the surface, to strain credulity, he has now placed himself miles ahead in the quest by high-tech companies to invent something that will do the same thing. Motorola Inc. for example, has set its sights on emerging technology that
could allow first responders and Special Forces to see through building walls, the Washington Technology Web site reports.

Camero Inc. an Israeli firm founded by technology and intelligence veterans, received $5 million from Motorola and other investors to develop portable imaging radar that uses ultra-wideband technology to create a 3-D picture of objects that are concealed by walls or other barriers.

Three units make up the Angel Light. The main unit, which Hurtubise calls the centrifuge, contains the Angel Light's brains and includes black, white, red and fluorescent light sources, as well as seven industrial lasers. The second unit, or the deflector grid, contains a large circle of optical glass, a microwave unit and plasma intermixed with carbon dioxide. The third unit contains eight plasma light rods, CO2 charges, industrial magnets, 108 mirrors, eight ionization cells industrial lights, and other components Hurtubise chooses to remain tight-lipped about. Hurtubise said the Angel Light has cost $30,000 to build and he sold percentages of his other innovations to finance it as well as 800 to 900 hours of his time. He credits his subconscious with the idea.

"I had a dream about a year and a half ago as I do for most of my innovations, just a dream, and I saw it, saw the whole casing and everything, and I saw what it could do," Hurtubise said. "I had the same dream about that three times and by the third time I had it in my head and I started to build it." Troy dreamed the Angel Light would be able to see through walls with window-like efficiency, and then built it with no blueprints, drawings or schematics. "I turned it on and that was well over a year ago and it worked; it was really awesome."

Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the licence plate on his wife's car and even see the salt on it.

"I almost broke my knuckles three or four times, because it was almost like you could step through the wall," Hurtubise said. "You could be fooled into believing that you could actually walk through the wall and go touch the car." Hurtubise called his MIT contacts with news of what he'd done. "They told me that I was playing with electromagnetism, Hurtubise said. The conversation ultimately led to the discovery of the Angel Light's other startling properties. Hurtubise said ""Somebody from MIT" shipped him an eight-inch by eight-inch piece of panelling from the latest Comanche helicopter, which was built using radar-resistant stealth technology. "It's amazing what you can get across the border on a Greyhound bus," Hurtubise said. Hurtubise was instructed to set up an outdoor track, which he did on First Nations land. He attached the panel piece to a remote control car that went down the track. Hurtubise then aimed the Angel Light at the panel and turned on a radar gun. "I was able to pick it up the panel on the radar gun," he said.

But a strange thing happened to the car, once it was hit by the Angel Light beam: it stopped working. Hurtubise returned to his lab and began testing the Angel Light on other electronic items including portable radios, TVs and a microwave over. "They all stopped working," Hurtubise said. He duly reported this to his MIT contacts. "They said 'Troy, this is unbelievable.'" Hurtubise purchased a remote-control plane for $1,800 and took it and the Angel Light to a flying field on the way to Powassan. He directed the Angel Light beam toward the sky and started the plane flying. "On the first loop it came around, passed through the beam of light and fell right to the ground," Hurtubise said. Hurtubise continued testing the light on other materials and discovered it could also see through other metals including steel, tin, titanium and, unlike Superman, lead. As well, the beam also penetrated ceramic and wood. The Hurtubise put his hand in the light beam. "I could see my blood vessels, muscles, everything, like I'd taken an Exacto knife, cut into my skin and peeled it back," Hurtubise said.

Soon after, Hurtubise discovered the Angel Light had devilish side-effects. He lost feeling in the finger of the exposed hand and began suffering an overall malaise. 'MIT told me every time I turned it on there must have splash-back hitting me,' Hurtubise said. A test on a tank of goldfish was even more disturbing."I turned the beam on it and within minutes all the goldfish died," Hurtubise said. "That's when I realized there was a Hyde effect, as in Jekyll and Hyde, and I dismantled the whole thing." He didn't reassemble it until the French called him after seeing a Discovery Channel program about the LIMBC. Hurtubise believes the Hyde effect can be taken out, but by others who have far more expertise than him. In the meantime Hurtubise believes that after 17 years inventing, his ship may finally have come in with France. "My brother told me the only way I'd be able to sell any of my innovations is by walking on water," Hurtubise said. "Well, I think I've just walked on water."

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An Israeli firm has developed a breakthrough technology that can see through walls, WND has learned. Camero, a small company based in Herzliya, Israel, has developed a radar system that uses ultra-wideband technology to produce three-dimensional pictures of the space behind a wall from a distance of up to 20 meters. The pictures, which reportedly resemble those produced by ultrasound, are relatively high-resolution and are produced in real time. The device has important military and rescue implications: It can be used by troops to get a visual on the inside of a room, providing such crucial information as the number and location of each individual and the kinds of weapons in any given room. "The company was born of urgent operational needs," said CEO Aharon Aharon.

"When disaster victims must be rescued from a collapsed building or a fire, time is of the essence," he said. "Rescue forces often invest enormous resources and precious time in combing the rubble, or endanger their lives by entering the flames, even if it is not clear that there are any survivors behind the walls." Until now, other partial solutions were used, such as fiber optic cameras inserted through holes drilled in a wall, or certain sound amplification systems that highlight the noise in a certain room. It has been known that radio waves can be used to visualize an image, but the kinds of radio waves available did not provide high enough resolution to be useful and could not penetrate walls built of certain kinds of metals, including steel-enforced concrete walls. Camero developed a certain kind of ultra radio wave that can be emitted to generate a high-definition image and also invented the technology that allows the enhanced wave to pass through virtually any wall. Aharon said an initial prototype of the device is going to be available in about a year.

One other company, Time Domain, now also uses ultra-band technology to see through walls, but Camero's technology is considered superior in several important respects. For one, it can be used from a distance of 20 meters, whereas Time Domain's product must be placed right next to the wall. Also, Camero gives a detailed picture of everything in the room, whereas Time Domain's product locates objects but gives no information about their shape or size. Israeli firms are well known for developing revolutionary technology, particularly in the defense fields. El Al Airlines recently implemented a high-tech antimissile system developed by an Israeli firm, and Israel announced it developed a Star Wars-like remote control border with Gaza that uses unmanned sensor patrol cars and computerized observation posts to automatically spot and, upon human authorization, kill terrorists, even recommending the most appropriate weapon for the system to fire against a specified target. In addition, an Israeli security source told WND that Israel recently developed proprietary technology that can discreetly put an electronic field around a building or area that gives users the ability to monitor and control every electronic emission within that field, from electronic can openers to fax machines, computers and cell phones.

First Image from Revolutionary T-ray Camera;
Sees through Fog, Clothing and into Deep Space
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
11 February 2003

A project to develop a promising new astronomy imaging technique that can also denude a fully clothed human or see through thick fog has generated its first picture. A so-called T-ray image of a human hand, taken through a 1/2-inch (15 millimeter) pad of paper, is the first product of the new terahertz camera. The technology is poised to revolutionize imaging in astronomy, medicine and airport security, proponents say. The European Space Agency's project to develop the camera was first reported by SPACE.com last June. While largely unheralded, T-ray imaging does not appear to be pie-in-the sky. In fact, a camera built by a company called QinetiQ and working in similar millimetric waves already last year had demonstrated the ability to peer through clothes and reveal a concealed weapon, along with much of a person's body. The technique employs a little-studied but ubiquitous radiation. Detecting T-rays allows a camera to effectively see through smoke, walls and even clothing or bandages. Low frequency versions of terahertz waves are known as millimeter waves, and they behave much like radio waves. At higher frequencies, the terahertz waves straddle the border between radio and optical emissions. The technology is sometimes referred to as quasi-optics.

Similar but less sensitive technology is already used to examine sea-surface temperatures from satellites. A future T-ray observatory might study the tails of comets, experts say, and the frequency could also shed new light on the early universe and how the first galaxies formed. "Observations from space may be on the verge of a revolution with the possibility of looking into the terahertz frequency range," said Peter de Maagt, project manager for StarTiger, which stands for Space Technology Advancements by Resourceful, Targeted and Innovative Groups of Experts and Researchers. Few formal studies of T-ray technology exist, but an article on the Web site of the journal Nature last year said these cameras could be "the next big wave" in imaging for everything from cells to stars. Scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York claim T-ray technology will speed computer memory and sharpen flat-panel displays.

To develop the technology quickly, StarTiger was created by the ESA. The project brought a group of researchers together for a few months, provided ample money and facilities, and encouraged development of new technology in a short period of time. The researchers started in June, created their first T-ray image last fall, and released one this week. "When we started last June we set an ambitious goal: to build in four months the first compact submillimeter-wave imager with near real time image capturing using state-of-the-art micro-machining technology," said de Maagt. "We reached this goal when the first terahertz images were taken in September."

Terahertz waves are unique because they can pass easily through some solid materials, yet they can also be focused as light to create images of objects behind the obscuring material. Terahertz imaging may soon become a standard medical diagnostic technique, researchers with StarTiger say. T-rays could provide an image that has X-ray-like properties without the use of potentially harmful radiation. It might be particularly useful to augment dental X-rays and for possible early detection of skin cancers. Pilots might one day use terahertz imagers to generate a picture of what's ahead in heavy fog, StarTiger officials say. A higher resolution imager than currently developed would be needed for such a view. The newly developed device is small enough to fit in a briefcase. A future version might one day be deployed to space to examine the early universe. If money were provided, a space-based T-ray camera could be deployed in two years, a StarTiger scientist said.

Police officers serving a warrant or searching for a suspect hiding inside a building could soon have a new tool for protecting themselves and finding the "bad guy." A prototype device called the RADAR Flashlight, developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), can detect a human's presence through doors and walls up to 8 inches thick. The device uses a narrow 16-degree radar beam and specialized signal processor to discern respiration and/or movement up to three meters behind a wall. The device can penetrate even heavy clothing to detect respiration and movements of as little as a few millimeters. "We believe the RADAR Flashlight potentially will be useful to police officers in ambush situations," says Gene Greneker, the GTRI principal research scientist who led the development of the device. ".... It is a force multiplier and a safety enhancement tool."

The RADAR Flashlight is undergoing further modification and testing for the next six months. The Georgia Institute of Technology has filed a provisional patent for the device, which could become commercially available to law enforcement officials within a couple of years if the university licenses the technology to a manufacturer. With funding in 1998 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a division of the U.S. Justice Department, Greneker and his team took the RADAR Flashlight from a bulky three-part prototype to a self-contained unit that weighs about 7 pounds. The NIJ tested the device last year at the National Law Enforcement Corrections Technology Center in Charleston, S.C., and suggested further modifications. Work on those changes is expected to begin this spring with additional funding from the NIJ.

"We will be modifying the RADAR Flashlight based on what law enforcement officials told us from the tests," Greneker says. "For one thing, they said it makes too much noise when it locks onto a wall (to scan). Also, for use by SWAT teams, the RADAR Flashlight needs to be operated by remote control. So we plan to put the RADAR Flashlight on a tripod at least 25 feet away from a wall and steer it by remote control to the part of the wall we're interested in scanning." When these modifications are complete, the RADAR Flashlight will undergo more rigorous testing in various environmental conditions.

In its current form, the RADAR Flashlight operates in the following manner:

The user holds the device with a pistol-grip handle, pulls a trigger, and the device runs a 3-second self-test to verify that it is properly functioning. The user sees the results as a bar graph on a small LED display built into the device. Then the user presses the device against a wall, pulls the trigger, and within 3 seconds the system automatically spaces itself from the wall at a distance designed for best performance. The RADAR Flashlight's narrow radar beam sends out a pulse of electromagnetic energy, then detects the return signal, which is read by high-speed signal processing technology that quickly delivers bar-graph results to the user's display. As the person on the other side of the wall breathes, the bar-graph display rises and falls with a rhythmic response.

Research that evolved into the RADAR Flashlight began at GTRI in the mid-1980s with the patenting of a frequency-modulated radar for remotely checking vital signs of soldiers wounded on the battlefield before risking medics' lives to save the injured. This early technology also was tested for its ability to monitor vital signs of soldiers clothed in chemical or biological warfare suits, without requiring them to risk contamination by removing the protective gear. Today, a technical challenge remains for researchers working on the RADAR Flashlight.

"We have one problem," Greneker says. "This instrument is so sensitive to motion that if you don't hold it still enough, it will detect its own self-motion. If we can overcome this, it would be the Holy Grail, and interestingly enough, we think we know how to solve this problem with additional research."

Bill Deck of the National Law Enforcement Corrections Technology Center cited the RADAR Flashlight's stability and LED display as key issues to target before the device is commercialized. "The RADAR Flashlight has some potential," Deck said. "There is some interest from police departments. They gave us about 25 scenarios in which the device could be useful. For example, when an officer goes to serve a warrant, it could let him know that someone is standing behind the door, maybe waiting to ambush him." Greneker says he is encouraged by interest from police departments and hopes the RADAR Flashlight will be commercialized soon.

"Our target sales price is $1,000 to $1,500 per device," Greneker says. "That price range is important to police departments because they usually don't have a lot of money to spend."

Meanwhile, other companies have developed a micro-impulse type of radar intended for the same purposes as the RADAR Flashlight. The micro-impulse radar spreads energy over a broad band of frequencies using a technique not yet approved by the Federal Communications Commission, Greneker says. The RADAR Flashlight operates on a narrow frequency in a license-free band, he adds. It can detect motion and/or respiration through brick, wood, plasterboard, glass and concrete. It will not work in water or on metal structures, such as mobile homes, because these materials are electrical conductors. For those concerned about radiation exposure from the flashlight, Greneker says the emission is very small -- meeting national standards for the maximum human exposure limits. It emits about the same amount of radiation as a person receives when standing in front of a microwave-actuated door in a store.

TOP 100 Prime Federal Contractors in 2004
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2004	Company	Contracts		2003 Rank




1	Lockheed Martin Corp.		$5,471,384,000	1

2	Northrop Grumman Corp.		$4,925,621,000	2

3	Computer Sciences Corp.		$4,109,276,000	5

4	Boeing Co.		$3,358,591,000	4

5	Science Applications International Corp.		$2,864,187,000	3

6	General Dynamics Corp.		$2,429,181,000	7

7	Raytheon Co.		$2,355,736,000	6

8	EDS Corp.		$1,901,826,000	9

9	Titan Corp.		$933,134,000	15

10	Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.		$924,751,000	11

11	IBM Corp.		$909,690,000	18

12	BAE Systems North America Inc.**		$888,870,000	10

13	Dell Inc.		$854,983,000	13

14	L-3 Communications Corp.		$619,290,000	12

15	GTSI Corp.		$530,726,000	17

16	Harris Corp.		$521,605,000	25

17	CACI International Inc.		$507,201,000	19

18	Mitre Corp.		$469,625,000	28

19	Anteon International Corp.		$468,030,000	14

20	AT&T Corp.		$458,753,000	31

21	Motorola Inc.		$447,936,000	24

22	ManTech International Corp.		$437,745,000	36

23	Honeywell International Inc.		$436,824,000	30

24	Accenture Ltd.		$426,853,000	23

25	Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.		$420,457,000	29

26	ITT Industries Inc.		$411,466,000	21

27	Rockwell Collins Inc.		$421,890,000	38

28.1	Sprint Corp.		$345,000,000	49

28.2	Unisys Corp.		$343,558,000	20

29	URS Corp.		$335,988,000	na

30	Arinc Inc.		$328,088,000	26

31	SRA International Inc.		$277,594,000	32

32	Halliburton Co.		$242,218,000	39

33	BearingPoint Inc.		$239,957,000	37

34	DigitalNet Holdings Inc.		$225,739,000	35

35	Battelle Memorial Institute		$214,755,000	45

36	Thales Group		$205,264,000	na

37	MCI Inc.		$201,336,000	8

38	Affiliated Computer Services Inc.		$200,000,000	16

39	Sytex Group Inc.		$195,690,000	51

40	RS Information Systems Inc.		$189,216,000	48

41	Verizon Communications Inc.		$188,434,000	43

42	Oracle Corp.		$160,746,000	34

43	CDW Government Inc.**		$158,721,000	79

44	Pearson Government Solutions Inc.**		$158,553,000	60

45	PlanetGov Inc.		$148,149,000	40

46	Perot Systems Corp.		$141,907,000	56

47	MTC Technologies Inc.		$140,352,000	96

48.1	Information Systems Support Inc.		$138,673,000	54

48.2	American Management Systems Inc.		$138,010,000	46

49	Telos Corp.		$137,555,000	57

50	EDO Corp.		$137,466,000	76

51	World Wide Technology Inc.		$136,991,000	50

52	Stanley Associates Inc.		$136,835,000	64

53	Tetra Tech Inc.		$135,546,000	na

54	QSS Group Inc.		$134,219,000	44

55	Alion Science and Technology Corp.		$133,715,000	59

56	Hewlett-Packard Co.		$132,746,000	41

57	Siemens AG		$129,247,000	74

58	Tybrin Corp.		$124,202,000	71

59	Integic Corp.		$117,401,000	69

60	Engineered Support Systems Inc.		$114,659,000	na

61	Arctic Slope Regional Corp.		$109,497,000	na

62	ITS Services Inc.-SEA Inc.		$108,985,000	84/78

63	Parsons Corp.		$106,016,000	na

64	Intergraph Corp.		$105,636,000	91

65	Force 3 Inc.		$104,797,000	62

66	SI International Inc.		$102,074,000	83

67	Qwest Communications International Inc.		$101,559,000	90

68	Milcom Systems Corp.		$99,044,000	73

69	Scientific Research Corp.		$96,559,000	86

70	STG Inc.		$94,318,000	66

71	Cubic Corp.		$88,810,000	70

72	Chugach Alaska Corp.		$88,280,000	na

73	MPC Computers LLC		$86,838,000	58

74	Bechtel Corp.		$86,551,000	na

75	Softmart Government Services Inc.		$81,116,000	na

76	Resource Consultants Inc.		$78,809,000	82

77	Dynamics Research Corp.		$77,970,000	53

78	Lucent Technologies Inc.		$77,840,000	na

79	Computer Associates International Inc.		$75,216,000	90

80	Safeguard Scientifics Inc.		$73,805,000	na

81	Chenega Corp.		$72,324,000	na

82	EMC Corp.		$72,229,000	87

83	Stratos Global Corp.		$72,162,000	na

84	JHM Research & Development Inc.		$72,044,000	72

85	KPMG LLP		$71,745,000	na

86	Wackenhut Services Inc.		$71,338,000	na

87	Camber Corp.		$70,493,000	92

88	PC Connection Inc.		$69,321,000	63

89	PEC Solutions Inc.		$67,022,000	42

90	Presidio Corp.		$65,576,000	na

91	Computer & Hi-Tech Management Inc.		$65,488,000	94

92	CAS Inc.		$65,278,000	na

93	Sprint has been moved to No. 28

94	S&K Technologies Inc.		$63,973,000	na

95	DLT Solutions Inc.		$63,031,000	na

96	Avaya Inc.		$62,620,000	55

97	Artel Inc.		$62,053,000	na

98	Keane Inc.		$60,054,000	na

99	Research Triangle Institute		$59,863,000	na

100	Comtech Telecommunications Corp.		$58,860,000	na