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Homeland Security

GE Continues Work on DNDO’s SORDS Effort Under $2M Award

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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

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General Electric [GE] says its Global Research center has received a six-month, $2 million contract from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) to develop a working prototype of a mobile Standoff Radiation Imaging System (SORIS) under the Standoff Radiation Detection System (SORDS) program. The contract was actually awarded in July, around the same time that Raytheon [RTN] received a follow-on award under SORDS (TR2, July 23). DNDO awarded nine-month phase one contracts last October. GE says its SORIS system is…

Congress

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Congress

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Unmanned Systems

Bipartisan House Bill Would Give National Guard To Counter-Drone Authorities

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Congress

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