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DNDO Hopes Next-Generation Radiation Screener Ready for Certification This Year

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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

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By the end of FY '09 the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) hopes to have successfully developed one company's next-generation radiation portal monitor for certification by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the acting head of the agency tells Congress. Two of the original three contractors remain in the Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) program and both companies' systems are in varying stages of testing. Raytheon [RTN] and Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO] continue to work under contract to DNDO. However, the agency…

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