Explosive Detection Kit (EDK), created by High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), a constituent research center of DRDO in Pune, was dispatched in the US on 2 August 2013. Crowe and Company, South Carolina, US, will fabricate and showcase the EDK.

The transfer of technology (ToT) of the EDK is a joint exertion of DRDO and Federation of Indian Chambers of Trade and Industry (FICCI) under the Accelerated Innovation Assessment and Commercialisation (ATAC) system to market DRDO's indigenous innovation in the residential and worldwide business sector.

There are a few advances which have been exchanged to the Indian organizations under the ATAC program. The dispatch of EDK, in any case, was a noteworthy occasion since this is the principal innovation that has been exchanged to a US organization for assembling and supply to the global market.

DRDO-FICCI has entered into an authorizing concurrence with Crowe and Company.
The EDK is a remarkable and imaginative item which identifies all sorts of explosives precisely in the field. The explosives could be of any blend of nitroesters, nitramines, and trinitrotoluene, explosive or dark powder.

Based on the standards of 'shading science', the pack utilizes reagents that trigger mpound responses to identify kind of dangerous by the coming about shading. A couple drops or a impact of atomised reagents on suspected dangerous material can precisely affirm or deny the nearness of explosives like TNT, PETN or RDX.

The kit comes in a variety of forms and sizes and is being widely used in India by law enforcement agencies. Crowe and Company is planning to introduce the EDK to the US Army and US homeland security forces and in other global markets.