Nanometrics awarded $10 million contract to upgrade international seismic monitoring network that detects nuclear events

Nanometrics won a five-year, $10 million dollar contract to recapitalize the Air Force Technical Applications Center’s seismometer and data acquisition systems for its global monitoring network.

The system includes more than 3,600 sensors operating across 31 locations worldwide, for a global network of nuclear event detection equipment. 

AFTAC’s global network is used to monitor nuclear treaty compliance and detect and report technical data from foreign nuclear explosions to national decision-makers. AFTAC is looking to update its seismometers and data acquisition system in addition to enhancing its network with the latest technological advancements in seismic monitoring.

Over the next five years, Nanometrics will work with AFTAC to deploy stations designed specifically for global monitoring applications, featuring data authenticating hardware capable of multi-sensor integration using long period and short-period seismometers as well as infrasound and meteorological sensors.

Working with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the US Department of Defense, AFTAC provides direct technical, analytical and evaluative support through enhanced safeguards inspections to monitor nuclear proliferation activities, involving weapons of mass destruction, in signatory states.

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