908 Devices Inc. announced they will provide their High-Pressure Mass Spectrometry™ (HPMS) technology platform to the next phase of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DOD) new Aerosol and Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (AVCAD) program. The company and partner Smiths Detection, a worldwide leader and proven integrator for detection systems, were selected by the DOD'sJoint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND)'s Joint Project Manager, Nuclear Biological Chemical Contamination Avoidance to be one of only two suppliers to move into the engineering and manufacturing phase for the AVCAD. 908 Devices' HPMS technology is the core of the company's commercially available devices, including the MX908™ trace chemical detection device. During the development phase of the AVCAD project, the DOD extensively tested the selectivity, sensitivity and capability of HPMS.