Live-fire testing on pressurized single-aisle and widebody aircraft cabins is set to start at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Test Center in northern Maryland. The work is part of a long-running Army and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program to study locations or designs that will yield the least damage if a bomb found onboard an aircraft detonates. While DHS will only confirm that it is conducting the least-risk bomb location (LRBL) testing at Aberdeen as part of an interagency agreement with the Army, recent activity on government contract websites, along with aerial photographs taken on June 1 by Aviation Week of aircraft fuselages assembled at the Army's Airbase Range 3 at the southern end of the Phillips Airfield, reveal the extent and tempo of the program.
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