B9- you ask a fundamental type question as to what has changed between IMSC and TSA.
I sense: not much. The relationship is still strong. I don't see any grounds for ANY light getting between IMSC and TSA.
The rumor mill is just that. However, the science created by IMSC has not been weakened. On the chessboard: IMSC will fill out a total line replacement of all TSA Airport machines, fill out all other depts. of DHS's need for ETD machines ( no guess as to size of those orders) while S-M struggle thru certification against the specification that IMSC has created. And S-M are using a non-IMSC swab, so they have THAT going against their testing.
By the time S-M pass certification, lets say a by July of 2016, IMSC will have advanced the ETD resolution frontier once more and de-desked that frontier into a handheld ETD that surpasses all other ETD units in terms of resolution while being non-contact.
Now, other competing technologies may arrive and disrupt our path, but I severly doubt that. Dr. McGann knows trace. What I have hesitation over is this: Dr. McGann is not a "mgt. butter pat" to spread across the mundane but necessary chores of guiding the ship. So I expect we hear about a new COO in Feb. I welcome that. And I am eager to hear about new frontiers in trace detection that are sure to come out of his wonderous workshop.
As I have said: troll and tolls are dropping off, the road ahead is looking brighter and brighter. And IMSC shareholders have suffered much, but will not suffer forever. To Infinity--ah, that was a chain yank.
