Article: Office seeks to quickly field counter-terrorism technologies.(IN FOCUS: DEFENSE AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS)(Defense Department's rapid reaction technology office)

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Ben Riley, director of the Defense Department's rapid reaction technology office, wants to tell vendors, laboratories or anyone else who has a gadget that can help defeat terrorists, insurgents or other bad guys, that he's here to help.

The office has two test beds available to those who want to try out technologies in a simulated urban or maritime environment.

About five times per year, the office opens up the national counter-insurgency counter-terrorism test site in the confines of the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona to those wishing to see how their technologies operate in a mock city.

The site is open to "small companies that might ...

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