The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) this week announced research and development awards under the ‘Advanced Detector Development and Nuclear Forensics Research and Development’ Programs.
The funding effort is on behalf of DTRA’s Nuclear Detection Technology Division which oversees the development of new radiological/nuclear detection technologies in support of the DoD mission of detecting, identifying, and eliminating threats from radiological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The apparent successful offerors are:
| AOSense, Inc. | $3,209,543 | Atom Gravity Gradiometer for Shielded SNM Detection |
| Asynchrony Solutions, Inc. | $5,249,113 | Non-Rad SNM Operational Solutions Using MFK-CBRN |
| DOE – Oak Ridge National Lab | $714,000 | Passive Detection, Location, Identification, and Characterization of Nuclear Material |
| GE Global Research | $2,996,610 | CZT RIID |
| H3D, Inc. | $2,312,812 | Handheld CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometers |
| Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab | $599,532 | Radiological Search Mission Design Tool |
| Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab | $411,591 | Neutron Time-Correlation Test and Measurement Campaign |
| Lawrence Livermore National Lab | $1,075,000 | Real-Time Characterization of SNM |
| Lawrence Livermore National Lab | $1,400,000 | Boron-loaded Plastic Scintillators with Efficient Pulse Shape Discrimination |
| Lawrence Livermore National Lab | $990,000 | Autonomous nuclear threat detection multi-sensor analysis |
| Northrup Grumman ES, Xetron Business Unit | $4,500,681 | Passive Detection, Location, Identification and Characterization of Nuclear Material |
| Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. | $4,259,244 | Gamma Ray Imager and Locator |
| Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. | $5,110,673 | High Resolution Focal Plane for Passive Gamma Ray Imaging |
| Nucsafe, Inc. | $649,654 | High Performance, Low Cost Neutron Detectors Based on 6Li Glass Microspheres |
| Pacific Northwest National Lab | $750,000 | Low Profile Wearable Sensor with Leave-Behind Capability |
| Pacific Northwest National Lab | $850,000 | Improved SNM Detection in Low-count searches |
| Pacific Northwest National Lab | $2,475,000 | Proxy Signature Development and Validation for Nuclear Loss of Custody |
| RadMet LLC | $950,207 | A Low-Power, Low-Cost Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for Long Dwell Measurement Applications |
| SAIC ASO | $1,592,112 | SensorWeb Enablement of RN Search Operations |
| SAIC ASO | $2,898,157 | NTD Building Interior Surveillance System (NBISS) |
| University of Michigan | $1.093,338 | Low-cost, Large-area, Fine Radiation Detection via Nanosemiconductors |
The awards were announced under Board Agency Announcement (BAA) HDTRA1-12-NTD-BAA.