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Raytheon Awarded Phase Two Contract For Stand-Off Radiation Detection

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by Staff Writers
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jul 10, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Raytheon a phase 2 contract to continue its development of a Stand-Off Radiation Detection System (SORDS).

"The purpose of the SORDS is to develop advanced nuclear detectors that can determine the type and location of radiation sources at much greater distances than current technologies," said Mark Russell, Raytheon's vice president of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance.

"Phase 2 involves engineering a prototype design."

Phase 2 is an eight-month contract for $4.7 million that is being managed by DHS' Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

It is the second of a four-phase development program worth a potential $9.9 million if all four options are exercised.

A Raytheon team developed a preliminary prototype design in Phase 1, a $2.9 million DHS contract that ran from November 2007 to April 2008.

In developing a reliable and affordable SORDS solution for DHS, Raytheon is teaming with experts from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.; Bubble Technology Industries, Chalk River, Ontario; Radiation Monitoring Devices, Watertown, Mass.; Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass.; and MIT and the University of Michigan.

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