Defense & Military

DARPA Advances Miniature Nuclear Detection Devices Toward Deployment

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The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is continuing testing of smartphone-sized nuclear material detectors with an eye toward deployment in 2018.
The agency’s 2-year-old SIGMA program aims to develop more effective, less expensive devices…

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