Subsurface Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Detection/Discrimination R&D Program

The Department of Defense (DoD) has a potential liability of more than $35 billion for the cleanup of unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination at Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) sites, Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS), and other DoD sites. Currently, commercially available UXO detection technologies provide at best 80 percent probability of UXO detection and approximately 40 percent probability of false positive responses. Hence, large costs are incurred during UXO site remediation due to the excavation of non-UXO anomalies such as range clutter.

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