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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

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ORTEC Introduces Remote Capability for Detective Rad Detection Products AMETEK’s [AME] ORTEC Products Group has introduced the Detective-Remote Mobile System for radionuclide identification applications. ORTEC is offering a new software that communicates with Detective instruments to provide users the capability to acquire data remotely from one or more Detective products simultaneously. “Detective-Remote Mobile System provides our customers with false-positive resistant nuclear threat detection and identification functionality in a cost-effective package that can fit into any Concept of Operation,” says Johnny…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

Dem Lawmakers Want To Codify Trump’s Push For More Defense Contractor Accountability

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