' MIDAS '

MIDAS is the acronym for Mobile Instrumentation Data Acquisition System, a self-contained, fully automated data collection and processing facility housed in a 13.4-meter (44-foot) trailer with both structural and thermal data acquisition systems. MIDAS was designed and built between 1989 and 1993 by Sandia to provide on-site data acquisition and analysis capabilities for testing of radioactive materials packages. It has been used to collect data in Germany and at Lawrence Livermore Lab in addition to tests at Sandia.