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MDI Consolidates West Coast R&D Labs to Boost Engineering Capabilities for Checkpoint Security

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

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Morpho Detection, Inc. [MDI] has opened a new research and development (R&D) facility near Los Angeles that consolidates two other R&D facilities in Southern California in order to give it a greater critical mass of engineering capability in one location and a more diverse skill set to focus on solving technology challenges around aviation checkpoint security, the company says. The R&D Center for Advanced Explosives Detection Technologies combines MDI’s R&D efforts around quadrupole resonance and mass spectrometry technologies. The quadrupole…

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