
Three years after the Department of Homeland Security terminated a program aimed at developing and producing the next-generation of portal systems to detect radiological threats hidden in cargo and vehicles, dozens of the Advanced Spectroscopic Portals (ASP) are being used in operations and for scientific research, a department official said on Tuesday. Following cancellation of the program in 2011, some of the 36 ASPs purchased through low-rate production are now being used by universities and the national laboratories for research…