ahhh...this is a bit disturbing and this was 3-4 years ago.
...and this
Last year the DHS Science and Technology Directorate called on private companies to design “a device that will search for and identify bulk quantities of currency - secreted on persons, in hand baggage and luggage, and/or in privately owned vehicles.”
The agency sought to purchase a non-intrusive detection device that would be capable of screening a person walking with luggage or a slowly-driven vehicle for cash.
Last October, DHS awarded three companies $100,000 to conduct feasibility studies that concluded last week.
DHS is currently reviewing the proposals and will decide if any of the ideas from Lattice Government Services Inc., Intelligent Automation Inc., or Connecticut Analytical Corp are worth investing in.
The agency will come to a conclusion within the next thirty to sixty days, and if a company is chosen it will develop a prototype and begin field-testing.
But it seems that the technology to accomplish its goals may not exist yet as there are several large technical and logistical hurdles that must be overcome.
Paul Burgess, the chief executive of Lattice Inc., explained some of the difficulties that his company faced in developing their concept.
“It isn’t just currency moving through an airport, a body scanner will pick that up. The bigger problem is at border crossings. You can put money in a side door and it’s going to be very difficult to detect,” he said.
In addition, DHS required that the scanners be able to detect U.S. and Canadian dollars as well as euros.
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire...illions-cash-smuggled-across-us-mexico-border
