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Homeland Security

GE Suspends CommerceGuard Operations

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

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General Electric [GE] has suspended operations and investments in its CommerceGuard container security device solution due to poor economic conditions and what it says is a lack of firm field testing schedules and deployment plans from the U.S. government. "We are not going to continue to invest and have suspended operations," a spokeswoman for GE's Security business tells TR2 regarding the company's decision to halt work on CommerceGuard. "We will retain our ability to produce CommerceGuard." CommerceGuard is a device…

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