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Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

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DARPA Seeks Information on Low Cost, High Performance Rad Detection The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a Request for Information seeking innovative ideas that may support a potential new program designed to provide novel approaches to low cost, high efficiency, packaged radiation detectors for identifying hidden threats ranging from special nuclear materials to radiological sources. Specific topics that DARPA is interested in include: compact radiation detectors; low-cost large volume/area, high efficiency detectors; and piggy-back detector concepts. Sol.…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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