The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week awarded separate contracts to L-3 Communications [LLL] and SAIC [SAI] to provide the agency with checked baggage explosive detection systems (EDS) that require less space to operate.
L-3’s award is potentially worth $169.1 million over five years and represents the first contract for the company’s eXaminer SX Reduced Size EDS with the agency. Analogic [ALOG] is a key partner of L-3’s, providing the core of the EDS system.
SAIC’s award is through its Reveal Imaging subsidiary and is potentially worth $110.2 million over the five years of the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. TSA has only purchased Reduced Size EDS from SAIC having deployed hundreds of the systems at airports nationwide.
The reduced size systems are typically deployed to small and medium size airports that have lighter passenger volumes and therefore fewer checked baggage screening demands, but also less real estate for the larger EDS systems that can also screen more bags per hour.
No task orders have been awarded under the new contracts.