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GE’s Security Business and Cubic Corp. recently finished testing their jointly developed explosives-detecting ticket vending machine.

Conducted in June, the "Baltimore Rail Security Study" analyzed an Early Warning Explosives Detection System installed in a Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) subway station. The system is designed to detect explosives residue on passengers as they purchase tickets. If residue is detected, the system alerts security or law enforcement authorities, and does not allow the customer to pass through fare gates.

The Baltimore pilot was a cooperative effort between GE, Cubic, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology unit, MTA and the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT).

“While the formal results aren’t in yet, the information gathered during this pilot appear to be good enough to take this potentially useful technology further along the commercialization testing path,” said MDOT Assistant Secretary Earl Lewis in a prepared statement.

Final test data currently is being reviewed and will be released later this summer.