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Homeland Security

DNDO Awards Johns Hopkins APL $4.8M for Independent Test Analysis

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

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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…

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