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ASP Testing Problems Persist, House Science Panel Says

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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker A second round of field testing over the summer of next-generation radiation portal monitors showed that problems with the systems persist and there are not currently plans for a third series of tests, the House Science and Technology Committee says in its charter for today's hearing to examine the Department of Homeland Security's Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) program. In the July Field Validation Testing, the ASPs had several false positive alarms for nuclear material that didn't exist,…

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