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Homeland Security

VeriTainer Setting up Crane-Mounted Rad Detector for CBP Testing

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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Customs and Border Protection has invited VeriTainer to participate in an operational readiness test at the Rail and Radiation Test Center at the Port of Tacoma, Wash., using the company's VeriSpreader crane-mounted nuclear detection technology. VeriTainer is currently installing the VeriSpreader in Tacoma and making sure it's ready to go through the testing program, Joe Alioto, vice president of sales at VeriTainer, tells TR2. He says the upcoming test program with CBP is a result of the agency's awareness of…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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