The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is acquiring 50 XPAK portable trace explosives detection systems from RedXDefense for advanced combat evaluation in Iraq and Afghanistan beginning next month. The upcoming evaluation marks the largest scale deployment of XPAKs to date, although RedX has sold similar numbers of systems before to other customers, Regina Dugan, CEO of RedX, tells TR2. Deployed in the hands of a number of troops, the XPAK devices will be used in many applications including the screening…
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