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Article: Textron Defense Systems' Nuclear/Radiation Detection System Honored With Homeland Security Award.
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- Bioterrorism Week
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced that its Adaptable Radiation Area Monitor, or ARAM, has been honored with a Government Security News Homeland Security Award in the Best Nuclear/Radiation Detection category (see also Textron Inc.).
Designed, developed, tested and serviced at the company's Goleta, Calif., location, ARAM is a spectroscopic monitoring system that detects and identifies nuclear and radioactive material. In fact, its gamma and neutron sensors can identify multiple radioactive isotopes simultaneously. Existing and future variants using ARAM's core technology have received the ...