Travelers passing through the security checkpoint at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport?s Southwest terminal will glimpse the next generation of X-ray security scanner, undergoing trials there for the next few months.
The COBRA system, built by Massachusetts-based Analogic, is an automatic explosive detection system that provides transportation security officers with a 3-D picture of items passing on the belt, while simultaneously detecting explosives or banned material.
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