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Defense Agency Awards Decision Sciences $5M to Expand Capabilities of Detection System

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

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Decision Sciences International Corp. has received a potential $5.2 million contract to expand the detection capabilities of a cargo scanning system it has developed and tested for passively detecting and identifying shielded and unshielded nuclear and radiological materials.Under the new contract with the Pentagon’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO), Decision Sciences will complete development and testing of new machine learning algorithms that will enable the company to build and expand the materials library of the Multi-Mode Passive Detection System…

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