The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has awarded multi-million dollar contracts to Canberra Industries, SCI Technology, Inc., and Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] for research, development, design and demonstration of and Advanced Radiation Monitoring Device (ARMD). Canberra, a division of France’s AREVA Group, received a $4.4 million award to fund the evaluation of the key technologies and system requirements with a bias toward detection and identification with practical usability. SAIC won a $6.6 million contract to validate a core detection module and performance test unit device design strategy and topology. SCI received $5.3 million to demonstrate an ARMD that leverages CLYC, which is an emerging scintillation detection material to be furnished by the government, and novel photon-to-electron conversion technologies to create new core detector modules for a family of advanced nuclear detection capabilities. The specific application for the SCI effort is a sensitive, compact, and accurate Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector.