Sounds like the "brain fingerprinting" touted by Steve Kirsch
The commercial firm may very well be "Human Brain Research
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 12:46 AM
> NASA Plans to Read Terrorist's Minds at Airports
> This just strikes me as being so ridiculously bizarre. We are truly
> beginning to blur reality with science fiction. Makes me think of  Minority
> Report (although PKD realized this future decades ago). Especially
> concerning (or intriguing?) is the revelation that "the agency is
> developing brain-monitoring devices in cooperation with a commercial firm,

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