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L3’s Security Business Expanding Solutions Portfolio for Customers

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 17th, 2017

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WOBURN, Mass.—Traditionally focused primarily on providing customers with detection equipment to screen for explosives and other threats, L3 Technologies [LLL] Security & Detection Systems (SDS) unit is beginning to expand its offerings to a broader solutions set that relies heavily on software that networks sensors and other equipment to provide operators and authorities a wide range of valuable information to enhances operations and processes, says Tom Ripp, president of L3 SDS.Ripp says L3 SDS will always provide and acquire “the…

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