The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has awarded Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) a follow-on $4.8 million contract to provide independent evaluation and analysis support services for nuclear threat technology. APL is doing data quality verification of files collected during testing of the Advanced Spectroscopic Portal systems. DNDO currently is doing integration testing on ASP, which involves verifying system performance in a simulated field environment. That testing is slated to finish soon prior to the start of an operational test and evaluation phase. Three companies, AREVA Group’s Canberra Industries division, Raytheon [RTN] and Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO] are developing ASP systems for DNDO.