Schools are looking to actual warzone technology to limit fatalities from the next mass shooting

Shooter Detection Systems said its clients did not want to be identified. The Washington Post was able to locate the Virginia Beach school and talked with an administrator there, who spoke on the condition that the school not be named. The administrator, while thankful for the technology, didn’t want to draw undue attention to the campus.

“It’s kind of sad that schools are needing to do this,” the administrator said, “but it’s a reality.”

The administrator also said the school, like most schools with this technology so far, did not pay full price for the system.

The system at the Virginia Beach school is based on Boomerang, which was created by the Pentagon and Raytheon BBN Technologies to help U.S. military forces locate sniper fire on battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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