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Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

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Smiths Detection Introduces High-Speed EDS Smiths Detection has introduced its entry into the market for high-speed scanning of checked baggage for explosives, offering the HI-SCAN 10080XCT, which it says is being tested by the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The new explosives detection system (EDS), which was developed in cooperation with Analogic Corp. [ALOG], is designed to be screen 1,800 bags per hour with a belt speed of 0.5 meters per second. The computed…

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