General Electric's [GE] Security business has been selected by Moscow International Airport Domodedovo to provide two integrated CTX 9000 DSi and X-Ray Diffraction 3500 systems as part of a system-of-systems approach to explosives detection for checked baggage. Within the airport's baggage handling system GE's integrated approach uses the CTX 9000 Explosive Detection System (EDS) to provide alarms, location data and bag images and then relies on the XRD 3500 to identify threat materials. "This ability to focus on a limited…
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