Battelle and Decision Sciences Corp. have teamed to further develop Decision Sciences Multi-Mode Passive Detection System (MMPDS) into an operational and deployable system in response to a Request for Information from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office for trans-shipment and direct-to-rail radiation detection equipment and operations. Battelle will be responsible for productizing the MMPDS, which Decision Sciences has developed into a prototype for testing based on work by the company and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The system’s detection technology is based on muon tomography, which can detect shielded nuclear materials, and gamma detection to detect background radiation on unshielded materials. The team is in the process of responding to DNDO’s RFI, a company spokeswoman tells TR2. The MMPDS prototype, which had been at Los Alamos, is now in San Diego where Decision Sciences is based. “We don’t the think the path is long to getting MMPDS productized,” she says.