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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

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Morpho Detection, Inc., which recently received a potential five-year, $133 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to supply its CTX 5800 reduced-size explosives detection systems for checked baggage screening at U.S. airports, has received its first delivery order for two systems. The value of the delivery order wasn’t disclosed by TSA. Implant Sciences [IMSC] says that it has sold seven of its QS-B220 desktop explosives trace detector to a regional U.S. airline for air cargo security. The units…

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