It had created a network of laboratories to aid in rapidly detecting microbes.

Launched in November of 2004, NASA's Swift satellite was designed to rapidly detect high energy bursts from dying stars.

Malicious strikes are hard to detect rapidly since deadly microbes might incubate in human bodies for hours, days, weeks or even months before causing widespread havoc.

Scientists at Sheffield University have identified a way of using light to rapidly detect the presence of bacteria.

Moreover, in a post-9/11 world, electronic health information networks would allow doctors, hospitals and public health officials to rapidly detect and respond to a bioterrorism attack.

This equipment is a spectroscopic (light gathering) apparatus and corresponding method for rapidly detecting and analyzing analytes in a sample.

Also, it is specialized for rapidly detecting small, fast moving targets at all altitudes and small surface targets in severe clutter.

For example, sensors detect whether a driver presses the accelerator more rapidly than normal, something that alerts the gearbox to shift into its "performance" program.

This chip can rapidly detect errors in tracking and command the mount motors to correct for them.

However, a system to rapidly detect and report resistant organisms in individual patients should be in place to ensure a rapid response by caregivers.