Aviation Specialties Unlimited Inc. will provide 12 days of night-vision-goggle training to the Baltimore County Police Department's Aviation Unit at a cost of $29,240. The contractor, based in Boise, Idaho, is the sole authorized dealer for the goggles and is considered an industry leader in sales, maintenance, training and cockpit modifications for advanced night vision technology. Its training programs have the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration. The company will provide eight hours of classroom instruction and five hours of flight time for the county unit's seven pilots and nine technical officers starting Wednesday and continuing through Jan. 25. The county department used a federal grant to purchase four pairs of night vision goggles in November at a cost of $10,600 each. Funding for the contract is included in the department's Buffer Zone Protection and Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention programs.

-Mary Gail Hare