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DNDO Looks For October Certification of ASP Program By Napolitano

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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is hoping that development of the next-generation of Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs) will be ready in time for a certification decision in October by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a decision that would lead to production of the Advanced Spectroscopic Portals (ASP), the acting chief of the agency said yesterday. The "notional" date for the certification decision is October, but DNDO is planning on a decision sometime this fall, Charles Gallaway,…

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