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Homeland Security

Marine’s Evaluate RedX’ XPAK-I with Thai Military

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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

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The Marine Corps has field evaluated RedXDefense's XPAK-I explosives detection system with the Royal Thai military as part of the Crimson Viper Experiment, RedX says. The XPAK-I, which has GPS data logging capabilities, allows operators to collect and analyze trace explosives data over a wide target area, record samples with a barcode and GPS data, preserve samples for further forensics, and suing the XPAK Spotlight software, download data and map it quickly to identify patterns of activity or hot zones.…

Congress

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