Passport Systems, Inc. was founded in December 2002 to develop and commercialize nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF), a technology invented by MIT Professor and Passport founder William Bertozzi, as well as other technologies, to address the threats facing the world after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Passport Systems' technologies are applied to automatically identify sea, air and land cargo contents in a fraction of the time required by other systems.