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Implant Says TSA ETD Award an ‘Inflection Point’ for Company

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this month awarded Implant Sciences Corp. [IMSC] a potential $162 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to provide benchtop explosive trace detectors (ETDs) to the agency for passenger and baggage screening, the largest award in the company’s history and one it believes will provide opportunities for additional sales to other customers domestically and internationally. The company has now “passed the inflection point” and “our trajectory is forever altered and we believe the company is now…

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