DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID”) (OTCBB:PSID), a developer of molecular diagnostic systems for bio-threat detection, announced today that its M-BAND (Microfluidic-Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector) system is well positioned to take part in the Department of Homeland Security’s (“DHS”) $3.1 billion BioWatch Gen-3 opportunity, expected to be released in the first half of 2012, and is the only system of its kind that was demonstrated in the field under the DHS Science and Technology (“S&T”) BAND Program. PositiveID’s patented M-BAND biodetector was developed under a competitive award from DHS S&T, and M-BAND was the only successful system to emerge from the BAND program.
