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Evaluating Testing, Costs, and Benefits of Advanced Spectroscopic Portals for Screening Cargo at Ports of Entry Interim Report (Abbreviated Version) (2009) / Chapter Skim
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... The idea of an iterative approach also extends to deployment: the committee recommends a process for incremental deployment and continuous improvement, with experience leading to refinements in both technologies and operations over time. As a first step in this process DHS should deploy its currently unused low-rate initial production ASPs for primary and secondary inspection at various sites to assess their capabilities in multiple environments without investing in a much larger acquisition at the outset.
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... The committee recommends that DHS not proceed with further procurement until it has addressed the findings and recommendations in this report and the ASP is shown to be a favored option in the cost-benefit analysis.
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Key Terms

  • radiation transport
  • detector response
  • iterative approach
  • called pvt
  • scientifically rigorous

  • domestic nuclear
  • nuclear detection
  • identify radioactive
  • handheld radioisotope
  • physical experiments

  • production asps
  • asps prior
  • radiation portal
  • threat space
  • threat objects

  • physical testing
  • report provides
  • existing screening
  • initial production
  • models iteratively

  • physically test
  • certification decision
  • secondary inspection
  • currently unused
  • test algorithms

  • pvt rpms
  • council study
  • provides advice
  • process dhs
  • testing complementing


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