Postal Service Picks Titan's Anthrax Sanitization System

Titan Corp., San Diego, has sold eight anthrax-zapping, electron-beam systems to the U.S. Postal Service for $40 million, the company announced Oct. 29. The contract includes options for purchasing 12 more systems. Titan said the first systems will be delivered in November and used in post offices in the Washington area to help sanitize mail of possible anthrax contamination. Titan will operate the systems for the Postal Service. The proprietary electron beam systems will be provided by Titan subsidiary SureBeam Corp., San Diego. Integration will be completed by Titan Scan Technologies, also of San Diego.SureBeam sells and provides services for electron-beam-based safety systems and services for the food and medical industries. SureBeam's patented electron beam and X-ray-based systems destroy food-borne and other bacteria.The sale comes only a few weeks after Titan announced it would open a homeland security office to sell Titan and SureBeam solutions. Susan Golding, former mayor of San Diego, was chosen to head the office.