FY16 Exploratory Research BAA: Preventing Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism

This call seeks technologies or methodologies that can dramatically improve the national capability to detect and report attempts to import or transport a nuclear device, SNM, or radiological material outside of regulatory control. For this BAA, the technologies and methodologies are divided into five Research Topic Areas (RTA) as follows:
RTA-01: Approaches for Advanced Continuous Monitoring of R/N Threats by LawEnforcement Vehicles
RTA-02: Development of Accelerators with Applications to Homeland Security
RTA-03: Plastic Scintillators: Low cost, Large Volume, Spectroscopic and Long-TermStable, Plastic Scintillators for Gamma Detection
RTA-04: Modeling to Improve Risk Assessment and Encounter Dynamics in Challenging(non-Port/Point of Entry) Pathways
RTA-05: Development of Materials to Support Fundamental Nuclear Data Targets andNuclear Forensics Reference Materials

Funding: No fixed limit 

Duration: 1-3 years 

Research Authority due date: 7.9.16

White paper (required) due date: 14.9.16

Full proposl due date: 27.1.17