About the Transportation Security Laboratory

The Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) is a federal national laboratory located at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in New Jersey. The core mission of the TSL is to enhance homeland security by performing research, development, and validation of solutions to detect and mitigate the threat of contraband material (e.g., improvised explosive devices).

TSL helps protect our nation’s civilian air transportation systems. By virtue of its accomplished experts, state-of-the-art instrumentation, laboratory facilities and partnerships, TSL offers the homeland security enterprise and transportation security partners the ability to advance detection technology from conception to deployment through applied research, test and evaluation, assessment, certification, and qualification testing.

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