[CPEO-MEF] Ordnance detection helps Army lab earn top award

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Ordnance detection helps Army lab earn top award

Army News Service
October 27, 2005 


VICKSBURG, Miss. - New technology to help Soldiers find and cleanup
unexploded ordnance helped win this year's Army Research Laboratory of
the Year Award.

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg,
Miss., received the award Oct. 2. Claude M. Bolton Jr., assistant
secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology,
presented the award to Dr. James R. Houston, ERDC director, at the Army
Acquisition Corps' annual awards ceremony in Arlington, Va.

ERDC was cited for several technical accomplishments in the detection of
unexploded ordnance. It developed non-intrusive dual-sensor UXO
detection and discrimination systems.

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For the entire news release. see
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=8126

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